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| Homework for Grown-ups: Everything You Learnt at School... and Promptly Forgot | 
 enlarge | Authors: E. Foley, B. Coates
Publisher: Square Peg
Category: Book
List Price: £12.99
Buy New: £7.49
You Save: £5.50 (42%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 373
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 512
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 0224082663
EAN: 9780224082662
ASIN: 0224082663
Publication Date: August 28, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 A trip down memory lane October 30, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I saw this book in a well known book shop, and bought it on Amazon at a fraction of the price, top marks to Amazon.
This book takes you back to the days of your childhood, with great humour and sentiment, whilst waking up the grey matter at the same time.
It is amazing just how much of the book relates to my learning at school, and will no doubt stand me in good stead, when my children's homework becomes challening!! It is a great reference book, I will be back to order more at Christmas to give out to friends and family.
A superb book.
SUPERB!! October 15, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this book for a friends birthday who absolutely loved it, so much so I'm now going to buy it for all my relatives this Christmas. I love the quizzes in the book, and it is genuinely amazing to have all the things you learnt at school come flooding back. I can't recommend Homework for Grownups highly enough. Buy it!
Loved It September 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There are some fantastic trivia references here and the whole book is put together in a nice fun and easy going way. Great
QI: The Book of General Ignorance
The Perfect Present September 16, 2008
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I bought this book for my dad and he thinks it's marvellous. It's a very handsome looking thing that's crammed full of interesting, useful and entertaining facts. It really is just the ticket for that 'tricky-to-buy' present.
 A real nostalgia trip... September 15, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This little book really took me back to my school days and all the information we were expected to understand and remember which, apart from the three R's, proved to be of very little use in the real world but I suppose it demonstarted an ability to learn. It would have been a great help, as a child, to have the book handy to explain some of the basic facts and fundamentals which were seldom properly explained to us at school.
It must have been very difficult to know what to include in the book, how detailed it should be and what to omit. For instance the Black Death is covered but as yet I have not found mention of the Great Plague. I was also somewhat baffled by the use of BCE and CE relating to dates in the history section rather than the more commonly use BC and AD. Reference to a dictionary revealed the meaning of the terms but I learnt history in BPC days.
All in all a good book and well worth the price asked by Amazon, A great book to give as a Christmas present.
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