Bücher von Patrick Thomas

Dr. Watson is dead... Long live Dr. Watson! There's a new Dr. Watson working alongside Sherlock Holmes... And Dr. Jane Watson plans to do her late father and her godfather Sherlock proud. In partnership with Sherlock Holmes, Jane Watson has to solve murders and mysteries involving a choice between love and money, a European crime boss who is a master of disguise, and a ghost haunting. Then Jane is called upon by King and Country to lend her skills to solve a crime for a foreign power.It seems there's been a vampire murdered at Castle Dracula and King Vlad will accept no one less than the protege of Sherlock Holmes, the only man to have ever bested Dracula, to solve it.Despite Sherlock Holmes's misgivings, Jane Watson sets out on a Transylvanian airship. Along the way, she encounters Martian technology, a werewolf seeking asylum in Transylvania, a transformed Moriarty, the creature known as Adam Frankenstein, a council of vampires, and King Dracula himself. But will Jane be able to solve a crime that may have been committed by those whose powers rewrite the definition of impossible? And if she can't, what will Dracula do?Nobody ever said following in Sherlock Holmes's footsteps as a Detective of the Abyss would be simple. The game is afoot and the Abyss will never be the same!

Dieses Open-Access-Buch adressiert die durch Globalisierung und Digitalisierung zunehmende Internationalisierung der Wahrnehmung von Urheberrechten. Musikverlage, aber auch Urheber sehen sich dabei zwar der Option einer selbstbestimmten internationalen Wahrnehmung ihrer Urheberrechte gegenüber. Gleichzeitig ist dieser Schritt aber mit großen betriebswirtschaftlichen, technischen und rechtlichen Herausforderungen und Unsicherheiten behaftet. Dieses Buch soll an der Schnittstelle zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis die Grundlagen, Konzepte und Technologien internationaler Verwertung vermitteln. Dabei strukturiert es sich entlang des Lebenszyklus, beginnend mit der Mitgliedschaft bei Verwertungsgesellschaften, über Werk- und Nutzungsmeldungen bis hin zu Abrechnungsprüfungen und Reklamationen.

There are creatures lurking in our world. Obscure creatures long relegated to myth and legend. They have been sighted by a lucky-or unlucky-few, some have even been photographed, but their existence remains unproven and unrecognized by the scientific community.These creatures, long thought gone, have somehow survived; creatures from our nightmares haunting the dark places. They swim in our lakes and bays, they soar the night skies, they hunt in the woods. Some are from our past, and some from other worlds, and others have always been with us-watching us, fearing us, hunting us.These are the cryptids, and Systema Paradoxa tells their tales.***PI and retired MMA fighter Rufus Griffin pounds the streets of Vegas on the tail of an unfaithful spouse, but what he finds is a tale of another sort. One of intrigue and illicit fight clubs and cage bouts too incredulous to believe, even when he sees the fighters with his own eyes.He keeps his head down and stays on task until he discovers those in the ring aren't there by choice. A victim of abuse himself, there is no way he can leave them to their fate, even when his official business concludes. Rufus Griffin dives back into the underbelly of the Strip and comes out fighting.

The Right to Bear Arms - and the wisdom of doing so is intended to present a cohesive argument for: 1) the right of the average citizen to go armed for the protection of self, family, friends and others; and 2) the advantage of an armed populace. These arguments are based on the research of leading legal experts, historians, economists, criminologists, and statisticians.

Legends belly up to the bar at the end of the rainbow to help the troubled.