The new edition of this brilliant bestseller gives full support through every step of the way of starting a business, making the whole process easier, so you remain inspired and on the road to success.

Author Caspian Woods is a renowned entrepreneur and this book includes his vast experience of starting businesses, coaching new start-ups and interviewing hundreds of successful entrepreneurs from Bob Geldof to Phillip Green.

You will learn how to:

- feel positive, energised and enthused

- be clear about the start-up process

- be able to tailor it to suit their individual needs

- know which parts to focus on for success

- where to go for further reading/support.

This new edition features new material on using social media to reach new markets, improve customer service and recruit staff. It also features new information that accommodates recent changes in the economy.

If success in business was as simple as following the commandments laid down over the last few hundred years then why aren't all businesses created equal?

The simple truth is that the winners are bending the rules that the rest of us so diligently follow. Their willingness to go against the grain, take short cuts and challenge conventional wisdom is what makes them stand out, get noticed and grab the advantage.

And it's that unconventional, sometimes counterintuitive wisdom that this book offers. It doesn't have all the answers (who does?) and it will not make you an instant millionaire. It will sharpen your maverick mind and challenge you to think twice before you follow the received wisdom.

It will hone your instincts so that you can spot the opportunities the rest of the frenzied herd just galloped past, avoid the pitfalls others merrily plunge into and give you the courage to carve your own path to business success.

Thinking of starting a business? Chances are you will be excited by your ideas, but daunted by what might lie ahead. Most start-up guides make that feeling worse, by overloading you with complex, yet missing out the essentials that you really need to focus on to succeed. From Acorns is a different kind of book. Free from jargon and full of practical tips from countless entrepreneurs, it's the only guide that tells you exactly what you need to know - no frills, no complications. In its second edition, this bestselling book now includes information not only for small start-ups, but for those with ambitious growth plans who need to plan big financial pitches, initiate and nurture large scale expansions, and, eventually, sell and move on to the next venture. From Acorns is the no nonsense guide to starting a business - whether your plans or modest or on a grand scale, this book helps you get it right first time around.

You would think a Billionaire on the cusp of the biggest business deal of his life would be happy and excited, but not if you're keeping as many secrets as Allen. He didn't know which secret was harder to live with: being gay, or transforming into a bear whenever the full moon rises. When the pressure increases so does the temptation to hide away from humanity forever, that is, until a chance encounter opens his eyes to a life worth living. This paranormal shape shifter werebear romance explores the theme of personal freedom and the fantasy of living life in harmony with natural desire.

When a confident and curvy nature photographer takes an assignment in the remote Alaskan Wilderness she gets more than she bargained for. Tara Presfield has been assigned to capture a picture of a rare Kodiak when she meets reclusive billionaire Uriah Freestone who is strangely friendly with the bears of the area. Taking photographs isn't Tara's only need, and it sure helps to have a warm fuzzy body to curl up with in the cold Alaskan landscape. Although beautiful and worldly Tara has little idea what her life is about to become when she comes face to face with an Alpha bear. This story contains strong sexual content, adult situations, and explicit language This is a stand along novella with NO cliffhanger ending.

This highly original fantasy adventure focuses on the natural world set against an undercurrent of superstition and folklore. It can be read as a children's musical mystery, full of suspense and intrigue, or as a modern adult crossover tale of the interplay between music, nature and mankind. The story follows the young hero's thrilling escapades at school and across the planet, as he deals with espionage, kidnap and a terrifying enemy in a desperate race against time before the decisive 'Battle of the Bands'. It is a question of honour versus dishonour, harmony versus disharmony, order versus chaos - but who will win the final Battle? Caspian Ashworth trained as a choirboy at Bath Abbey before gaining a PhD in Animal Physiology at Cambridge. He is a member of the RSPB and WWT in West Sussex. The illustrations were created by his brother Neil Ashworth. "The book to read - not a book that thinks for you but one that makes you think." H.Lee "In order to see the birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence." R.Lynd "Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their colours are just too bright." M.Freeman

This dazzling collection of short stories can be read as a modern fairy tale or as a series of extraordinary episodes that serve to shape the unusual philosophy of the central character, Joe Pharma. He believes that life is simply a game of chess played out within a giant goldfish bowl and that everything inside the bowl is empowered and facilitated by the creator's master invention; electricity. The secret role of electricity in our lives and the Universe is unravelled through a string of uncanny events focused around an ancient market town on the South coast of England. Joe is the eternal student and the book follows his attempts to satisfy his thirst for knowledge and answer life's big questions. Along the way he encounters violent electrical storms, witches, terrorists, village cricket, TV quiz shows, Swiss cheese pirates, mind-bending drugs and coded messages from Biblical times. For Joe there has always been a thin line between fact and fiction, reality and imagination. However, amongst these flights of fancy, Joe is blessed with flashes of real inspiration. But will these 'lightning strikes' allow him to see the overall master plan and answer his questions once and for all?

Exceedingly unique, pulsing with vigor and heart, and loaded with fierce, fresh language, "The Dead Do Not Improve" confirms Jay Caspian Kang as a true American original. When struggling writer Philip Kim is dragged into a complex mystery after his neighbor is murdered, Sid Finch, a homicide detective bitter about everything except his gorgeous wife, and his phlegmatic, pockmarked partner, Jim Kim, land the case. Philip becomes the baffled focus of an elaborate, violent scheme that seems tied to his neighbor's murder, and the cops think he might be involved. With an intelligent narrative voice that that moves effortlessly between hilarity, satire, poignancy, and madcap digressions, Kang has written a trippy, self-aware novel obsessed with the Virginia Tech massacre, surfing, and identity.
Now with Extra Libris material, including an essay from Jay Caspian Kang