Lee Jackson

In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and women who struggled to stem a rising tide of pollution and dirt, and the forces that opposed them. Through thematic chapters, Jackson describes how Victorian reformers met with both triumph and disaster. Full of individual stories and overlooked details—from the dustmen who grew rich from recycling, to the peculiar history of the public toilet—this riveting book gives us a fresh insight into the minutiae of daily life and the wider challenges posed by the unprecedented growth of the Victorian capital.

Expert Advice from Top Speakers to Build Your Speaking Career. Revealed: the Secrets of How to Build a Successful Professional Speaking Business! If you want to be a successful speaker, this book will take you there! This unique collection of tips and strategies from some of the UK's most successful speakers will show you exactly how to: become known as a 'speaker of choice', make more money every time you speak, generate lots more speaking engagements, deliver more compelling, entertaining speeches, featuring the collective wisdom of seasoned speakers who have been there and done it, this book contains all the secrets to make you one of the highest paid and in demand public speakers around!

Eating real food gets children and teenagers on the road to a lifetime of healthy eating habits and a great start on good health. Help them enjoy apples without all the added sugars. Traditional apple desserts are often loaded with excess sugars and sweeteners. Many apples are quite sweet by themselves. In this apple cookbook there are recipes using no sugar or low sugar in a wide variety of food categories. If more sweetening is needed, other alternatives to the traditional high-sugar, white flour apple recipes are given. There are no artificial sweeteners used and a very limited amount of convenience foods is used. Healthy food practices are the basis for the recipes. The author gives the top 10 healthy tips she considers the most important food practices for healthy living. From these she focuses on what she calls THE BIG FOUR: Avoid refined sugar Avoid white flour Avoid GMO products Use healthy cooking oil With these healthy guidelines in mind, the author features a wide variety of ways to prepare apples. There are recipes for apple breads and cereals, salads, sandwiches, main dishes, side dishes, cakes, pies, cookies, desserts, snacks, and drinks. There are classics such as Apple Crisp, Apple Pancakes, and Apple Muffins, and the curiously named Appaloosa Alert. Kids will make and snack on apple chips, munch on apple leather, sample desserts, and learn how to make applesauce the easy way. There are over 70 wholesome and tasty recipes from which to choose. Through-out the book there are short snips of interesting apple facts and folklore. Kids will meet Johnny Appleseed and Isaac Newton and learn how apples have affected the history of America. Included is an apple guide to the varieties of apples used for different purposes. Different varieties are better when they are used for different purposes, such as eating-in-hand, for salads, for cooking in applesauce, and for baking in pies, tarts, crisps, and other desserts. Safety precautions for kids working in the kitchen are given. Young cooks will appreciate the easy-to-follow directions while older cooks will enjoy creating apple dishes perfect for any occasion. Enjoy apples in their pure, healthy form by following these healthy guidelines for kids and their families. The earlier naturally sweetened foods are introduced to children, the more likely they will accept them. Let them develop an appreciation of more healthful foods. Get kids involved in knowing more about the food they are eating. These low sugar, lower calorie, kid-pleasing apple dishes will work for kids of all ages. Help kids and young teens make healthy food choices using apples. Start today by ordering this apple-filled cookbook for your children and teenagers.

Sometimes when things get really bad, surgery is required. Bad Powerpoint* (and boring presentations) are everywhere it appears that they have almost become the norm and very few people seem to want to talk about it. It doesn't have to be that way. Bad presentations are costly. They can cost money, jobs and reputations, don't let your slides ruin your pitch. In this funny, cut-to-the-chase and down-to-earth book professional speaker Lee Jackson will wean you, and your workplace off bad slides forever. He'll also teach you how good presentation slides can work for you and help you stand out from the crowd. Using these simple techniques we can kill death by bullet-point once and for all. JOIN THE FIGHT TODAY (N. B. This book is a colour paperback and illustrated with full colour slides.)" Lee takes a clever and refreshing approach to presentation mastery. " Nancy Duarte - author of 'Slide: ology', 'Resonate' and principal of Duarte (creators of the slides/visuals for Academy Award-winning film, 'An Inconvenient Truth')" Powerpoint Surgery is an invaluable resource...and I highly recommend it... " Jeremy Waite - Head of Social Strategy, Adobe EMEA" Lee Jackson takes PowerPoint presentations from boring to brilliant. " Alan Stevens FPSA - Past President Global Speakers Federation and co-author of 'The Exceptional Speaker" ...a masterclass of creating sublime slides & presentations, but be warned, you may never be able to sit through a presentation again without thinking of Lee Jackson " Geoff Ramm - President 2013 Professional Speaking Association UK and Ireland"Jackson has got a bl***y nerve asking me to write a testimonial for his book. You see, I am a proudly militant Anti-PowerPoint Bigot, but somehow, he has turned the Indefensible into the Indispensable "Graham Davies - best selling author of 'The Presentation Coach'About the Author: Lee Jackson is a motivational speaker, PowerPoint surgeon and presentation coach. He's been speaking up front for more than twenty years in many challenging situations. As well as speaking, he loves helping other people to speak well too. He is a fellow of the Professional Speaking Association (PSA) and also the president of the PSA Yorkshire region. Get in touch via leejackson.biz or on Twitter: @leejackson #powerpointsurgery(*PowerPoint is a loose generic term for any presentation slide design software.)

Written by the acclaimed historical novelist Lee Jackson, this book recreates the sights and sounds of Dickens' London and provides a detailed itinerary for those keen to follow in the footsteps of 'The Inimitable Boz'. Each of the eight walks conjures up forgotten scenes of London life – stage-coaches racing through the Borough; herds of cattle driven through suburban streets to reach Smithfield market; the uproar of a hanging outside Newgate Gaol – together with directions to the most atmospheric and intriguing parts of the Victorian metropolis which have survived into the twenty-first century.

One thing is certain - only Decimus Webb can save her. Lee Jackson's third Inspector Webb novel takes the reader into the forgotten world of the Victorian pleasure-garden, in a gripping mystery of garish gas-light and dark secrets.

From slums to suburbs, freak-shows to fast food, prisons to pornography, 'A Dictionary of Victorian London' is a fascinating exposé of everyday life in the Great Metropolis of Victorian London. Compiling authentic nineteenth-century voices from a multitude of sources, including advertisements, diaries, court cases, journalism and guidebooks, Lee Jackson paints a unique picture of life in a vibrant and diverse city in an alphabetical guide. With striking contemporary illustrations throughout, this is a must-read for anyone interested in the remarkable history of London and the enthralling lives of the Victorians.

In the disreputable dance-halls and houses of accommodation of 1870's London, a boastful killer selects his prey. His crimes seem like random acts of malevolence, but Inspector Decimus Webb is not convinced. He begins to suspect a connection between the terrible murders, a mysterious theft at the Abney Park Cemetery, and a long-forgotten suicide.

His investigation leads him through the slums of Victorian London to the Holborn Refuge, a home for 'fallen women', and to Clara White, a respectable servant. Lee Jackson's second novel brilliantly recreates the sights, sounds and smells of Victorian London, taking readers on a suspense-filled journey through its criminal underworld.

A young woman, Natalie Meadows, jumps from Blackfriars Bridge, escaping from the horror she had just witnessed. But she is rescued and feels duty-bound to find out who murdered her best friend, the music hall star Nellie Warwick - and why.

- Highlights career profiles of successful professionals in various occupations.