Music is a business. Are you ready to protect your art?Talent and creativity are the heart of music, but in today's rapidly evolving industry, they are no longer enough to guarantee success. Beyond Creativity - What Matters in Music Contracts by Florian Koempel offers an accessible, deeply informed roadmap to the modern music business, designed for aspiring musicians, industry professionals, students, and legal practitioners.Moving beyond the roman...

Many companies today are turning to sustainable business models in order to maximize success while utilizing environmentally and socially responsible practices. This book offers the first comprehensive list of patterns of sustainable business models and presents an accessible approach to change existing business models and design new ones from scratch. The 50 patterns for sustainable business model design are grouped along eleven challenges companies typically face in sustainable innovatio...

Following serious threats made by an escaped serial killer against one of its agents, the FBI is forced to place Eleanor Perkins, a specialist in criminal behavioral analysis, in one of its witness protection programs. The young woman is sent to England, under the protection of Agent McGill, to live under a false identity in the upmarket town of Cobham.After five peaceful months living under their respective covers - she a writer, he a sports coach - Grace Bathgate, the neighbor wi...

A man confesses to four murders—but will tell the police nothing more—in this stunning psychological crime thriller.I killed them all. The stranger who walks into the police station says it again and again, but the only information he will provide is a list of the victims' names. Yet when officers go in search of the bodies, they find only empty rooms, forensic traces of blood, and more questions than answers. Could the victims in fact still be alive and h...

What if your first love came back twenty years later? Would you finally be ready?Julien and Alexandre were inseparable in high school. Three years of unspoken feelings, stolen glances, and a bond too deep to ignore. But just as quickly as their friendship blossomed, life pulled them apart.Now, twenty years later, Alexandre is back. Older. Wiser. Still devastatingly familiar. The emotions Julien buried so long ago resurface with a vengeance. What if this is ...

**“An enthralling and insightful cultural history—one that shows how, over the course of one pivotal decade, love, freedom and the freedom to love gave way to fear, madness and despair.” —Malcolm Forbes, Washington Post Book ReviewAn ingeniously orchestrated popular history brings to life the most pivotal decade of the twentieth century**As the Roaring Twenties wind down, Jean-Paul Sartre waits in a Paris café for a first date with Simone de Beauvoir, who never sho...

What if the love you lost… came back from the dead?December 7, 2034. Like every evening, Lucas watches the sunset over the ocean, honoring the memory of Paul, his lost love from three years ago. He’s finally ready to move on… until his phone rings.The voice on the other end is unmistakable. It’s Paul.“Stay with me,” he whispers before the call cuts off.Chills run down Lucas’s spine. How is this possible? Paul is gone. Forever. Or is he?...

"Splendid and important... Scientifically rigorous and written with a clarity and candor that create a gripping tale... [Böhme's] account of the history of Europe's lost apes is imbued with the sweat, grime, and triumph that is the lot of the fieldworker, and carries great authority." —Tim Flannery, The New York Review of BooksIn this "fascinating forensic inquiry into human origins" (Kirkus STARRED Review), a renowned paleontologist takes readers ...

Can you fall in love with someone… in a dream?Lior, like many of his generation, searches for love through dating apps but ends up with nothing more than a collection of one-night stands.When the pandemic hits, he escapes to Lake Tahoe with his friends for lockdown. But after a few nights, something surreal happens—he dreams of Julian, an irresistibly charming man. Their connection is instant, intense… and far more exhilarating than anything Lior has ever f...

Develop practical ethical hacking skills across the full penetration testing lifecycle. Use labs and challenges to investigate vulnerabilities, exploit safely, escalate access, and report findings.Key FeaturesComplete pentest coverage follows reconnaissance, exploitation, escalation, and reporting stepsRealistic labs address web attacks, passwords, social engineering, malware, and covert channelsProfessional context links hands-on techniques to...

A pragmatist conception of artistic form, through a study of the painter Gerhard Richter.In this study of the practice of contemporary painter Gerhard Richter, Florian Klinger proposes a fundamental change in the way we think about art today. In reaction to the exhaustion of the modernist-postmodernist paradigm's negotiation of the "essence of art," he takes Richter to pursue a pragmatist model that understands artistic form as action. Here form is no longer concei...

Death is a constant presence in Romeo's life: he survived a lightning strike, and his own son is suffering from a serious illness. At the same time, with the help of scientists and AI, he is on a quest for perfect music. His encounter with Yale professor Zoe, an expert in sincere and attentive communication, gives rise to a transcendent love story that transcends all boundaries and turns Zoe's life and beliefs upside down.