Back to Basics :The Education You Wish You'd Had

4.16 ( 82 Ratings by Goodreads)
Back to Basics

Back to Basics :The Education You Wish You'd Had

4.16 (82 Ratings by Goodreads)
hardback
Published: 31 May, 2012

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Don't know Midas from Oedipus? Wouldn't recognize a concerto from a sonata? Many of us wish that we could fill in the gaps in our education in order to avoid those embarrassing situations when we feel as if we don't know things that others do. In Back to Basics, bestselling author Caroline Taggart will provide readers with the opportunity to learn really useful stuff that was never taught in mainstream education, while also giving a refresher course on the main staples. From brushing up on Bible stories and classical architecture, to identifying different types of clouds, your thirst for knowledge will be sated and your education complete - and it's enormous fun to boot!
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781843178798
ISBN10 1843178796
Number Of Pages 192
Item Weight 1000 g
Publisher / Reseller Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
Format hardback
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Will do for grammar what Eats, Shoots and Leaves did for punctuation. -- Times

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Author's Bio

Caroline Taggart is the bestselling author of I Used to Know That and, in the same series, A Classical Education and An Apple a Day. She also co-wrote My Grammar and I (or should that be 'Me'?). Her other books include Her Ladyship's Guide to the Queen's English, The Book of English Place Names and The Book of London Place Names.

She also appears frequently on radio and TV giving her opinion on such subjects as whether or not there should be an apostrophe in Druids Cross and, if so, where it should go.

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