The Universal Crammer: Susan Frieze

Everything You Learnt At School, But Have Since Forgotten...Perplexed by Pythagoras? Undone by famous dates? Can't tell your Magnesium from your Manganese? Then this is the book for you. Divided into classroom subject-themed chapters, The Universal Crammer is packed full of key lessons that easily slip the mind once O-levels and GCSEs become a distant memory. Flex your dormant brain muscles and see how much you can remember from those days of staring at the white board/black board (depending on whether you're from the era of computers or exercise books). The ideal nostalgia present for any know-it-all in the family. Re-discover facts and theories, from geography to history, from maths to English, including:
Remember LSD? No, not the illegal drug, but the geological process of long shore drift of course. Then there's osmosis, meiosis, photosynthesis... All those similar sounding biological processes that ring a distant bell. Is carpe diem the limit of your Latin? Declensions, conjugations and those Latin tables you were made to learn. Mean, median and mode...is that someone who's stingy, mediocre, yet stylish? I kicked the ball. A classic S.V.O. sentence. S.V.O? Elementary, my dear - the basics of the linguistic typology: subject; verb; object. Loads of fun for anyone.