Piano improvisation is playing with music – playing in the true sense of the word. It is a game: set yourself some rules and be as creative as possible within that framework of restrictions. This book is a guide on how to improvise. It contains some exercises to get started and appendices with the most important information about keys, scales, chords, harmony, melody, and rhythm to help you. The main part of the book consists of 21 examples: a short description, a recipe for an improvisati...

Since the late nineties of the last century, the business started to use the term “Business Model” and authors began to analyze the phenomenon and created Business Model concepts. Anyhow, regardless of the fact that this buzzword emerges everywhere, still dissension exists concerning the definition. Multiple Business Model concepts exists, but are not actively used in daily business life and the bridge to controlling is never made.

In this book, I want to answer three questions: What is i...

What is it like to attend a museum today?

In fifteen emblems, each made of one photograph and one lyrical text, Limonard looks closely at what we may experience at the Rijks Museum and Rembrandt House in Amsterdam.

The emblems evoke Old Masters, Lost Companions, Recovery Rooms, a live Performance, the Sense of Touch, The Hunt for Satisfaction, Etiquette, and more.

When I was younger I didn’t know my value. I thought that when boys liked me more, I would have more value. Or rather: I thought that my value was directly connected to how sexually attractive I was for other people (especially boys). Right now I am 22 years old and I have a boyfriend for a while and I’ve been researching feminist topics for a few years. But I feel like I’m still a victim of the ‘male gaze’. And it’s not only me. A lot of friends that I’m talking to say that the...

After a horrendous journey in which several ships were lost, the Dutch came to Japan early 1600 with a ship called Liefde, meaning ‘Love’, and settled in Hirado. The Dutch traders were to stay there for several decades until they were transferred to the artificial island of Dejima in the harbor of Nagasaki. Here they stayed for over two hundred years, a period in which they were the only western nation allowed to trade with the Japanese. The location where the Dutch buried their dead in H...

When you read this book, it is very likely that the world of Physics is still very calm. Like in the early morning, just when the sun rises. You feel peace and the birds start to wake up and you hear the first sounds breaking the silence of the night. The sounds of joy, the sounds of happiness, the sounds of peace. But it is the morning of the great battle. The battle in physics. Still everybody is asleep. There is no sign of aggression. But soon the armies will rise and the battle will be da...

Truely amazing stories told by Ghanaian men who ventured over land or sea in search for a better future. They cross the Sahara desert to Libya where jobs are available if you accept the insults that go with them. Then on into shaky boats for Europe...

Stories by Ghanaian emigrants that you can feel in all their raw resiliance and beautiful sense of humor.

This book covers the relation between various groups of people that have a stake in a corporation, called stakeholders. Understanding this relation is important when defining the set of rules that ensure that the corporation is well governed, in short ‘Corporate Governance’.

The question “What is good Corporate Governance?” is more difficult to answer than the question “Can you give an example of bad Corporate Governance?” Some infamous cases are those of Enron, Worldcom, Parmal...

Barbara Bahtiar has travelled extensively through Europe and Indonesia. Rose Petals and Jasmine Flowers, a Journey through Authentic Indonesia, is her first book about her beloved country Indonesia, its customs, religion, culture, nature and kindhearted people.

She has visited her family in Indonesia several times, but taking part in a traditional wedding ceremony rich with religious and culture significance, inspired her to write Rose Petals and Jasmine Flowers, a Journey through Authentic ...

My potential = infinite, just like yours. I keep visualizing, and so I keep using my thoughts to create wonderful things. I share this with you and I have a smile on my face. It is nice to work with you even for a certain period wherein principle time does not exist but our ultimate creation.