Short and amusing refresher "course" on stuff you should already know.
Unfortunately it got rather boring for me in the chemistry section as I had advanced courses in Chemistry in school. The physics and biology part were interesting.All in all it was rather superficial (which wasn't so surprising given the length of the book and the complexity and vastness of topics t...
The title of this book, with the mild, modified obscenity, pretty accurately conveys the tone and feel of this slender book. Taggart, author of I Used to Know That: Stuff You Forgot From School and The Classics: All You Need to Know, from Zeus's Throne to the Fall of Rome, specializes in zingy tidb...
Mildly amusing but no guffaws of shock and glee. I was hoping for something more John Hodgman-y.
Explained everything very simply in an easy to understand kind of way, making up for years of bad schooling. Whilst it was simple it was also very in-depth. I'm glad to have read it
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