I USED TO KNOW THAT BOOK SERIES

I Used to Know That Book Series

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Michael O'Mara

Dimensions: 18.6 x 20 cm

 

9781843176558  I Used to Know That

(Stuff You Forgot from School)

by Caroline Taggart (Author)

I Used to Know That is an ideal and accessible reference guide for adults wanting to brush up on their lost knowledge - or prepare for a pub quiz!

If you've forgotten the capital city of Chile; the basics of osmosis; how to solve a quadratic equation; who wrote the famous poem about daffodils; the use of a conjunction or the number of continents in the world, I Used to Know That is guaranteed to provide all the answers.

 

9781782432555  I Used to Know That: Maths 

(Stuff You Forgot from School)

by Chris Waring (Author)

A light-hearted and informative reminder of the things that we learnt in school but have since become relegated to the backs of our minds, this book will help you to brush up on your mental arithmetic, including percentages, averages and recurring decimals or work on your trigonometry skills, from Pythagoras' theorem to triangle areas and angles. It can be used a practical guide to turn to when an answer is eluding you, from helping a child with homework to calculating change or understanding statistics.

I Used to Know That: Maths is a fun and accessible way to re-visit all those useful tips and maths tricks that you have forgotten from your school days.

 

9781782434481  I Used to Know That: History

(Stuff You Forgot from School)

by Emma Marriott (Author)

In I Used to Know That: History, information is broken down into manageable, bite-sized chunks, refreshing your memory of all those things you once knew but have forgotten, and filling you in on the bits that the school syllabus didn’t include. From building the pyramids in Egypt to the fall of the Berlin Wall, everything you used to know – and much that you didn’t – is here.

 

9781782432562  I Used to Know That: English 

(Stuff You Forgot from School)

by Patrick Scrivenor (Author) 

If you can't tell a possessive pronoun from a correlative conjunction, confuse 'disinterested' and 'uninterested' and struggle with the subjunctive, then I Used to Know That: English has the answers. 

Relearn the essential rules of the English language, from grammar and punctuation to sentence construction and parts of speech. Also helps to improve your spelling and clarifies the vocabulary that often causes confusion. Focusing on simplicity and clarity, this is an accessible yet fun way to revisit the English language while enjoying a walk down memory lane - and remembering the stuff you really shouldn't have forgotten...

 

9781782435068  This Book Will Make You Think

(Philosophical Quotes and What They Mean)

by Alain Stephen (Author) 

This Book Will Make You Think: Philosophical Quotes and What They Mean explains as simply as possible the ideas behind the world's most highly regarded philosophers, examining their beliefs and presenting choice quotes that succinctly distil their most famous theories, such as:

‘No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.’ Locke

‘If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.’ Voltaire

‘Whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent.’ Wittgenstein

Written in an accessible and informative style, this book will help readers get to grips with the complex concepts of philosophy through the ages, and help match the theories to the names.

 

9781782430117  Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas

(Popular Expressions - What They Mean and Where We Got Them)

by Judy Parkinson (Author)

Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas provides us with the meanings of these well-worn and much-loved phrases by putting these linguistic quirks in context, and explaining how and why they were first used.

For example, did you know that 'the rule of thumb' refers to the use of the thumb to make measurements, as the first joint of the average adult thumb measures one inch?

Absorbing, diverting and fascinating - as far as gift books go, Spilling the Beans really is the bee's knees!

 

9781843176572  My Grammar and I (Or Should That Be 'Me'?)

(Old-School Ways to Sharpen Your English)

by Caroline Taggart (Author), J. A. Wines (Author)

The go-to guide for grammar, My Grammar and I offers amusing examples of awful grammar, while steering you in the direction of grammatical greatness. Refreshing everything you should have learnt at school and more, My Grammar and I is informative yet entertaining - an ideal buy for any English language enthusiast.