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Exam: SQA N5/Higher Subject: All Subjects First Teaching: 2017
onwards, First Exam: N/A Make the most out of your revision with
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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.
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An energetic and exhilarating account of the Victorian
entertainment industry, its extraordinary success and enduring
impact The Victorians invented mass entertainment. As the
nineteenth century's growing industrialized class acquired the
funds and the free time to pursue leisure activities, their every
whim was satisfied by entrepreneurs building new venues for popular
amusement. Contrary to their reputation as dour, buttoned-up
prudes, the Victorians reveled in these newly created 'palaces of
pleasure'. In this vivid, captivating book, Lee Jackson charts the
rise of well-known institutions such as gin palaces, music halls,
seaside resorts and football clubs, as well as the more peculiar
attractions of the pleasure garden and international exposition,
ranging from parachuting monkeys and human zoos to theme park
thrill rides. He explores how vibrant mass entertainment came to
dominate leisure time and how the attempts of religious groups and
secular improvers to curb 'immorality' in the pub, variety theater
and dance hall faltered in the face of commercial success. The
Victorians' unbounded love of leisure created a nationally
significant and influential economic force: the modern
entertainment industry.
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.
Another outstanding title from the makers of Improve Your Coarse
Fishing Magazine, Lee Jackson's Carp Clinic takes the enthusiast
through all the processes needed to catch this elusive fish.
Hundreds of specially taken colour photographs and clear, easy to
understand text, make this book essential reading for all those
carp enthusiasts out there. Lee Jackson is the acknowledged expert
in this specailised field. Lee Jackson's Carp Clinic is published
by emapActive, the publishers of Improve Your Coarse Fishing
Magazine, Britain's best selling monthly coarse fishing magazine.
It is the third in a series of similar format books for coarse and
sea fishermen which offer excellent value for money. Earlier titles
are Bob Nudd's Illustrated Guide to Pole Fishing, and The
Illustrated Guide to Bait & Rigs, both of which have sold
consistently well since publication in 1998.
The intriguing history of Dickens’s London, showing how tourists
have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more
than 150 years  Tourists have sought out the landmarks,
streets, and alleys of Charles Dickens’s London ever since the
death of the world-renowned author. Late Victorians and Edwardians
were obsessed with tracking down the locations—dubbed
“Dickenslandâ€â€”that famously featured in his novels. But his
fans were faced with a city that was undergoing rapid
redevelopment, where literary shrines were far from sacred. Over
the following century, sites connected with Dickens were
demolished, relocated, and reimagined. Â Lee Jackson traces
the fascinating history of Dickensian tourism, exploring both real
Victorian London and a fictional city shaped by fandom, tourism,
and heritage entrepreneurs. Beginning with the late nineteenth
century, Jackson investigates key sites of literary pilgrimage and
their relationship with Dickens and his work, revealing hidden,
reinvented, and even faked locations. From vanishing coaching inns
to submerged riverside stairs, hidden burial grounds to apocryphal
shops, Dickensland charts the curious history of an imaginary
world.
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.)
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