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Stuff You Should Have Learned at School

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By Michael Powell

Formats and Prices

On Sale
Sep 27, 2011
Page Count
144 pages
Publisher
BookAnnex
ISBN-13
9781435139039

Price

$3.99

Price

$4.99 CAD

Format

ebook (Digital original)

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ebook (Digital original) $3.99 $4.99 CAD

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If you spent your school days in a haze and you feel like you’re missing some essential bits of knowledge, here’s the perfect pocket guide to bring you up to speed. Within these pages are easy to read refreshers on basic knowledge in English, math, science, history, geography, the classics, and music, including:

  • Algebra, geometry, numbers, angles, and ratios
  • Literary terms, Shakespeare, great poets and novelists, and the rudiments of spelling and grammar
  • The human body, the theory of evolution, the laws of physics, and the meaning of puzzling equations like E=MC2.
  • Major world battles, U.S. Presidents, and historical inventions and discoveries.
Covering 50 basic curriculum points in seven areas fundamental to cultural literacy, Stuff You Should Have Learned at School will help make you the center of cocktail conversation, a whiz in the boardroom, and an impressive figure to your peers. 

Michael Powell

About the Author

Michael Powell is a bestselling author of over twenty-five books for both children and adults. Before becoming a writer he trained at RADA and spent several years as an internationally unknown actor and musical director. He lives in Somerset, England, with his wife and two young children.

Dr. Oliver Fischer is a well-known doctor and expert on tropical diseases in his native South Africa. He has travelled widely throughout the African continent but has yet to suffer anything more severe than an upset stomach; “forewarned is forearmed” is his motto.

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