Homework for Grown-ups: Everything You Learnt at School... and Promptly Forgot

Elizabeth Foley , Beth Coates

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Published by Vintage, part of Vintage Publishing

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EAN: 9780099540021
Published: 16 Aug 2012

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Synopsis

Don't know your isosceles from your equilateral?

Forgotten what actually happened in 1066?

Perplexed by past participles?

Bewildered already?

Fret no longer. Swot up with Homework for Grown-Ups - a brilliantly informative and entertaining book of old-school knowledge for adults.

It covers everything from algebra and prime numbers, English grammar and the Big Bang theory, and an easy way to remember the order of the planets and Britain's kings and queens, to art, Latin, P.E., home economics, and much more. Packed with essential facts, figures and theories, along with fun but challenging test papers to keep you on your toes, it might just equip parents to handle their child's homework without humiliation.

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What the critics say

An obvious candidate to take to a desert island, along with Shakespeare and the Bible
- Daily Telegraph

This lovely cloth-bound book is packed full of facts
- Oldie

Feel like you’ve forgotten everything you learned at school? Then this subject-by-subject guide, with tests, is for you
- Observer

A decent reference book
- Herald

Irresistable
- The Lady

They write in a clear, brisk, no-nonsense style, and strike a perfect balance between seriousness and fun. It’s a glorious opportunity to dust the cobwebs from your brain
- Mail on Sunday

Relentlessly jolly-hockey-sticks on 10 subjects from maths to PE
- Independent

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