Books published by Consilience Media

Steam power was no stranger to anyone.It hid in plain sight for thousands of years waiting patiently to be unleashed.Raising Water by Fire tells the story of the inventors who struggled, cursed and loved their fantastical dreams of steam power and a wheel that turned seemingly under its own power.Steam power began with a penniless French refugee and a stubborn Devon blacksmith. Later a restless Scot built engines more powerful than anything ever seen or imagined.'We are all from one living filament, possessing the faculty of improvement by our own inherent activity and of delivering down those improvements by generation to our posterity, world without end.' Erasmus Darwin 1794.

Stella Ralfini has a successful career as a women's empowerment teacher and is a mine of knowledge when it comes to natural health and beauty. At 72, she credits her homemade recipes using essential oils and everything else supplied by nature for the quality of her skin, her body shape and good health.Sensual Sorcery offers a comprehensive range of beauty tips, recipes and health/weight loss suggestions gathered from around the globe to help others look and feel their best.

Brought together by their passion for rock music, kindred teen-spirits Ged and Julie bridge their social divide, fall in love and marry. So far, so good...However, a traumatic pregnancy and birth of their twin boys twists Julie into a downhill spiral of depression. As tragedy, grief and domestic abuse are added to the mix, Ged and his "Lady Juliet" are pushed into a dark world of secrets and lies.Secrets and lies from the family.Secrets and lies from their friends.Secrets and lies from each other.But when a serious accident threatens to blow their secret world wide open, family life teeters precariously on the edge of self-destruction.

A comprehensive guide to avoiding the pitfalls, potholes and highwaymen on the road to making long term profits from betting on horses. This book introduces you to the methods and techniques of building your own enhanced systems, that will enable you to break free from the dependency of others, to see true profitable returns. It dares to shine a light into the sometimes-murky world of tipsters, fakers and other so called "professionals", as it steers you along an otherwise perilous path and on towards your journey's end, that of how to develop and then achieve the very best from your own systems and procedures. Travel with me then, as we journey into the darker world of gambling on horse racing - a world of movers, shakers, tipsters and fakers.

The A-Z of Leasing and Asset Finance is a comprehensive guide to the terminology of this vital and significant part of the UK's business finance market that supports new business equipment and vehicle investment of more than £30 billion per year.In this revised and expanded second edition, over 450 terms are described with insight and precision. The book includes a concise history of the industry, tables of the largest leasing companies, and a quiz covering key leasing terms.

ou need this book if you want to be an Entrepreneur. This book will give you all the tools you need to become a successful entrepreneur. It's packed with practical information gained over thirty-five-years in building businesses, which can be applied to any business. 50 Skills The Entrepreneurs Handbook will teach you how to: -Design your business. -Start and grow your business. -Protect your business. -Master personal development techniques. -Become a master-manager of people. -Understand the essential financials. -Succeed in business. Structure There are six parts to the book plus a bonus section. Part 1. Why Start a Business? I discuss my life as an employee compared to my later life as a business owner. In doing so, my hope is that you will understand the enormous benefits a life as an entrepreneur can bring. But also, the price you have to pay earlier in life, for that level of comfort later on. Part 2. Personal Development We delve into personal development and people management, which underpins everything you do as an entrepreneur. This knowledge will give you the confidence to go forward into business and make you a wise leader. In my mind, this section is probably the most important in the book. With this skill-set, you will be poised to run a business in any sector. Part 3. Designing and Starting Your Business This is about the hard business skills, generic to any business. We talk through how to get started, from your idea, to going live. I give you a template to design your business, write an organisation chart, job roles, processes and systems. Plus, lots of my experience of dealing with the minefield of different personality types, of people in different disciplines. Part 4. Growing Your Business Now your business is up and running, I talk about how to grow your business including some economic concepts you need to understand before you start. This section will help you understand organic and driven growth, and where to target your sales and marketing effort. Part 5. Must Know Financials An absolute must for any business owner for several reasons. To protect your business, you must have a good understanding of financial management. Also, you need to be able to speak 'the language of business' to be credible. We discuss in easy-to-understand chunks, the essential financials, such as turnover, gross and net profit, budgeting, cash flow and other subjects you must know as an entrepreneur. Part 6. Why Businesses Go Wrong The majority of new businesses fail; this is a fact. I don't want you to be one of them. I talk about the reasons why my business nearly went wrong, then I give you techniques to make sure you know how to protect yourself against them. If you learn the concepts I explain here, the chances of your business going under are very small indeed, I'd like to think near impossible. Bonus Section I conclude with a bonus section I call Gathering of Wealth. It's not directly about business, more what you do with the money you make. Again, I wish someone had explained this to me when I started - I'd have been financially free much earlier. So, let's get into the book and in the first section, Why start a business, I'll explain why I believe you should consider this as your way of life.

This is a story about friendship in a school in a deep forest. All the kids of the birds, beasts and insects come there to learn. Their teacher Sir Owl is the wisest of all the teachers in the world.That forest school is very much like your own school, only they have lots more fun. There is the silly lion Crown Prince Lionello and his friend Joe Joe, a naughty pony who always makes dumb jokes. Together, they play the guitar and drums. And the fabulous Miss Pinky Bunny is the lead singer.All is okay until Lionello gets lost by himself. But his friends find him and they all live happily ever after.

Merlin helps to recover a book, one of three such books which could be used to destroy the human world as we know it. He joins forces with the Fae Queen and embarks on a journey. He finds out about the delicate balance of life in the two worlds and the consequences, should this change. With help from his new friends and his sister he discovers a world that he never knew existed and becomes the hero he was always meant to be. His world will change forever in the battle to come, between the Light and Dark Fae.

Adapted from the journals of Detective Chief Inspector James Bartholomew Bass..Following their honourable discharge bearing full military honours from many years of distinguished service with the British Army and Her Majesty Queen Victoria's Covert Special Forces Unit, Major James Bartholomew Bass and Commander Alan Tiberius Blackmore are immediately recruited into the service of the London Metropolitan Police Force and tasked with the specific brief of solving the conundrum of without doubt one of the most elusive enigma's from within the files of British criminal history: Exposing the true identity of "Jack The Ripper".As the pair of fledgling Detective Inspectors employ their raft of non- compromising and unorthodox policing methods in their efforts to uncover the truth, an intricate web of deceit and corruption, the like of which dare not have been perceived threatens to topple the very foundations of British Government and European Aristocracy…