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"A nostalgic compendium of essential knowledge that can help you show the world that you're smarter than a ten-year-old after all! "Have you ever stared blankly at your kids when they've asked why the sky is blue? Or clumsily changed the subject when they've wanted to know why the wind blows? If you're done with school, it's likely you're also done knowing the difference between an isosceles and equilateral triangle, and you probably leave participles dangling all over the place. Well, not anymore! Thanks to professional know-it-alls Foley and Coates, you can now gain back your self-respect and actually show those kids a thing or two as you tell it to them straight (and not make it up from fragments of facts you kind of remember). Packed with all the basic facts that have managed to free-fall from our heads over the years, "Homework for Grown-ups" is the ultimate grammar school refresher course in book form. In fact, there's even a quiz at the end of each chapter to ensure you've been paying attention! Written in the light, engaging style of a favorite teacher and featuring lessons in English, math, history, science, geography, art, and even home economics and recess, this fun and handy guide will help you stop hemming and hawing and start speaking with a lot more authority--and a little less shame. E. FOLEY and B. COATES are editors at Vintage who both live in London.

If you've ever wanted to know more about the power of 'P', or how to change the mood of a verb, or the hypnotic quality of Homework for Grown-Ups: Everything You Learned at School and Promptly Forgot free pdf anapestic tetrameter. If you've ever needed to spot a red herring, wield a Zeugma, or improve your Ethos, then this is the book for you. A Mulliner collection In the bar-parlour of the Angler's Rest, Mr Mulliner tells his amazing tales, which hold his audience of drinkers (referred to only as Pints of Stout and Whiskies-and-Splash) in the palm of his expressive hand. Here you can discover what happened to The Man Who Gave Up Smoking, share a frisson when the butler delivers Something Squishy on a silver salver ('Your serpent, Sir,' said the voice of Simmons) -- and experience the dreadful Unpleasantness at Bludleigh Court. Throughout the Mulliner clan remains resourcefully in command in the most outlandish situations, making for a vintage collection of hilarious Wodehouse.

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Author: E Foley,B Coates
Number of Pages: 368 pages
Published Date: 11 Aug 2009
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780767932387
Download Link: Click Here
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