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Classical Education by Caroline Taggart
13.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: The Stuff You Wish You'd Been Taught at School
How many times have you wished that your history stretched all the way back to Greek and Roman myths and legends? Or that you'd been taught Latin at school? Or perhaps you wish you knew all about the great inventions and medical developments that have made our world what it is today? A "Classical Educat ...Show more
Humble Pie and Cold Turkey: English Expressions and Their Origins by Caroline Taggart
20.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay | Series: I Used to Know That ... Ser.
'Caroline Taggart has carved out a niche for herself in user-friendly, wittily written factual books.' - Yorkshire Post______________________The huge variety of colourful phrases contained in the English language are notoriously varied and, often, notably odd. From blue-blooded (an invention of aristocr ...Show more
I Used to Know That: Stuff You Forgot from School by Caroline Taggart
30.00 NZD
32.00 (6% off)
Category: History
If you've forgotten the capital city of Chile; the basics of osmosis; how to solve a quadratic equation; the names of the Bennet sisters in "Pride and Prejudice"; 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" will prov ...Show more
I Used to Know That: - Stuff You Forgot From School by Caroline Taggart
13.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: I Used to Know That ...
A Sunday Times top-ten title in 2008 and a bestseller ever since, I Used to Know That has continued to delight readers with its pages of forgotten facts from our school days. Now available in paperback, this great gift book has been repackaged with a fresh jacket design for anyone new to the series, and ...Show more
Misadventures in the English Language by Caroline Taggart
25.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
Misadventures in the English Language looks at some of the controversial aspects of English usage - grammar, vocabulary and punctuation - and tries to assess what matters and what doesn't. Looking at why it pays to be precise in your punctuation - the hackneyed examples of 'Let's eat Grandma' and 'Eats ...Show more
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