In 1764 the first printing press was established in the French Caribbean colonies, launching the official documentation of operas and plays performed there, and marking the inauguration of the first theatre in the colonies. A rigorous study of pre–French Revolution performance practices in Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), Powers’s book examines the elaborate system of social casting in these colonies; the environments in which nonwhite artists emerged; and both negat...

Misunderstandings between races, hostilities between cultures. Anxiety from living in a time of war in one's own land. Being accused of profiteering when food was scarce. Unruly residents in a remote frontier community. Charged with speaking the unspeakable and publishing the unprintable. All of this can be found in the life of one man--William Pynchon, the Puritan entrepreneur and founder of Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1636. Two things in particular stand out in Pynchon's pioneering li...

Thanks to coded notes taken by the teenager John Pynchon, this volume transports the reader, virtually, back to Sundays in the seventeenth century, when the community gathered to listen to the Rev. George Moxon. The setting was Springfield, Massachusetts, founded in 1636 by John's father William Pynchon. As a note-taker, John recorded just what he heard in this rare resource, which allows the reader to listen in on the weekly sermons he documented in the 1640s. This symbol-by-symbol transc...

This book addresses higher–lower level decision autonomy for autonomous vehicles, and discusses the addition of a novel architecture to cover both levels. The proposed framework’s performance and stability are subsequently investigated by employing different meta-heuristic algorithms. The performance of the proposed architecture is shown to be largely independent of the algorithms employed; the use of diverse algorithms (subjected to the real-time performance of the algorithm) does not neg...

Firing on All Cylinders tries to leave its readers with a newer, fresher, more profound outlook on life by integrating the timeless teachings of the Bible with relevant, modern, everyday living. This book beckons you on a journey, on a quest to scale the heights of both our human and spiritual potential. Life is not molded by circumstance or providence; fact is, man is the builder, and man is responsible for his own environment, be it good or bad. St. Paul classifies man as having a threef...

This is the third edition of David Powers' highly-respected PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy. This new edition has been updated by David to incorporate changes to PHP since the second edition and to offer the latest techniques—a classic guide modernized for 21st century PHP techniques, innovations, and best practices.You want to make your websites more dynamic by adding a feedback form, creating a private area where members can upload images tha...

Make your websites more dynamic by adding a feedback form, creating a private area where members can upload images that are automatically resized, or storing all your content in a database. David Powers has updated his definitive book to incorporate the latest techniques and changes to PHP with the arrival of PHP 8. New features include named attributes, constructor property promotion, the stricter and more concise match expression, union types, and more.The proble...

Updated and upgraded Paula Patton. This book is your ultimate resource for Paula Patton. Here you will find the most up-to-date 72 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Paula Patton's Early life, Career and Personal life right away.A quick look inside: Mirrors (film) - Plot, USC School of Cinematic Arts - Notable SCA alumni, Baggage Claim (film) - Plot, 71st Golde...

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF TELLY TALES by Paul David Powers! Book One, Tales of the Swamp Creatures (2003), is about Telly Owls Early Days with the Swamp Creatures! Book Two, Telly Tales, Adventures (2010), Son Thomas Telly Owl becomes the next generation leader! Telly Tales III, Telly Owl, Family and Friends (2014), concludes the Telly Owl Trilogy with Morris the Yellow Spotted Frog (in the Beginning) to the Marriage of Thomas Telly Owl and his Coronation! For Bookings etc, write PaulDavidPo...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Kenya Watson wins the last white elephant gift at his company’s year-end holiday party. The curious present dominates the software engineer’s daily life, compelling the lone wolf down a dangerous road of rich rewards and violent punishments. Kenya, responsible for a horrific incident during his youth, fights inner demons spawned from crushing guilt. Cryptic visions heighten his reality, and prophetic strangers guide him on a mystical qu...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Released from a Union prisoner-of-war camp, Confederate Civil War veteran Lieutenant Henry Gates returns to Buzzard Roost, Alabama, shocked to find his family’s plantation burned to the ground. Lonely decades slip away as Hank searches for his wife and children before finally settling in Southern California.The year is 1888, and San Diego’s real estate boom is gasping its last few breaths. Those hardy souls remaining eke out an ...

Although Muḥammad had no natural sons who reached the age of maturity, Islamic sources report that he adopted a man named Zayd shortly before receiving his first revelation. This "son of Muḥammad" was the Prophet's heir for the next fifteen or twenty years. He was the first adult male to become a Muslim and the only Muslim apart from Muḥammad whose name is mentioned in the Qur'an. Eventually, Muḥammad would repudiate Zayd as his son, abolish the institution of adoption, and send Zayd to ce...