Robert Ashton Knihy

More than 300,000 people start a business every year. That number will rise over the next year or two if the current economic downturn leads to widespread job losses. It is a fact that many people choose to turn the threat of redundancy into the opportunity of self employment. It is also a fact that when economic growth is low, business failure rates are higher. There has never been a greater need for a simple, explicit, practical business start-up guide that can increase new business survival rates in tough, as well as good times. People today need a start up guide that holds nothing back and tells them all they need to know. How to Start Your Own Business for Entrepreneurs does exactly this. Of course for many, starting their own business is a lifestyle decision. It is an aspect of the growing trend away from full time employment to freelance or portfolio working. The boundaries between traditional employment and free enterprise are becoming increasingly blurred. How to Start Your Own Business for Entrepreneurs guides you as you pick your way through the no man's land that separates these two worlds.

Do you want to make your life better? More successful, more productive, more healthy or simply more fulfulling? Most of us do, but we don't always know where to start. This book is intended for those who want to get more out of life, in various parts of their life.

Providing checklists of things to do and things not to forget, this is a practical guide for people starting up in business. It also features case studies on real-life businesses by true entrepreneurs

This book revisits Robert Ashton's iconic 1974 black-and-white photography series, capturing the vibrant life of Melbourne's bohemian Fitzroy. It explores the evolution of the neighborhood over fifty years, juxtaposing past and present through striking visuals. The work reflects on cultural shifts and the enduring spirit of the community, offering a nostalgic yet contemporary perspective on urban life and artistic expression in Fitzroy.

Where Are the Fellows Who Cut the Hay? is an ode to rural life, charting traditions of the past, how they were lost and why we need to reconnect.Exploring the relationship between everyday items and the communities that make them, Robert Ashton provides a snapshot of twenty-first century England. Where are the people who grow barley, milk cows and produce wool? How have their farming methods become less ethical, sustainable and natural over time? And what are we doing today to reverse that change?Inspired by George Ewart Evans’s Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay, Ashton gives voice to local people and travels rural Suffolk in search for innovation, interweaving his own personal connection to Evans and to the land. Part memoir, part social history, Ashton’s thought-provoking book is a manifesto for why, against all odds, we need to step back in order to progress.

The 'drug culture' is now so pervasive that it is part of everyday news in the Western world. In this powerful and illuminating new series, we commission a team of journalists to analyse and comment on the major substances that are seen by society as addictive and ultimately bad for our health. Packed with technical information, quotes from experts and users, illustrations to show the effect they have on the body, as well as the symptoms and consequences - whatever the reason for your interest in drugs, these are the books to read.