Homework for Grown-Ups Everything You Learned at School and Promptly Forgot

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Publisher's Synopsis

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

Don't know your isosceles from your equilateral? Forgotten what actually happened in 1066? Any idea why the sky is blue? This bestselling bible of old-school knowledge for grown-ups has all the answers.

With fun lessons in mathematics and algebra, English language and literature, chemistry and the sciences, geography, history, Latin, modern languages and more, Homework for Grown-ups is packed with essential information, facts, figures and theories, along with entertaining test questions to keep you on your toes and reignite those long-dormant brain-cells.

About the Publisher

Vintage

Vintage

Vintage is a highly respected paperback publisher of contemporary fiction and non-fiction, publishing writers like Philip Roth, Martin Amis and Toni Morrison. There are many Booker and Nobel Prize-winning authors on the Vintage list such as Kingsley Amis, A S Byatt, J M Coetzee, Ismail Kadare, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Anne Enright, Iris Murdoch, Roddy Doyle and Ben Okri, to name a few.

Book information

ISBN: 9780099540021
Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Vintage
Pub date:
DEWEY: 032.02
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 416
Weight: 344g
Height: 136mm
Width: 197mm
Spine width: 32mm