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500 Words You Should Know by Caroline Taggart
$22.95 AUD
Category: Letters
Ever wanted to ameliorate your atavistic lexicon, engage in a little intellectual badinage or been discombobulated by tricky diction? 500 Words You Should Know has you covered. This book will inspire the reader to use uncommon words in their correct context, to utilize the English language to its full p ...Show more
A to Z Great Modern Writers by Caroline Taggart
$24.99 AUD
Category: REFERENCE | Series: A-Z Great Modern Series | Reading Level: very good
Artist and graphic designer Andy Tuohy turns his hand to the world of modern literature in this new instalment of the A-Z series. Rendered in his distinctive style, this new book features portraits of 52 key modern writers significant for their contribution to literature, with a whole host of names from ...Show more
Back to Basics: The Education You Wish You'd Had by Caroline Taggart
$19.95 AUD
Category: REFERENCE
A compendium of those things you always meant to learn, from Latin verse to art history to cloud types, that doubles as a reminder of the basics and provides fresh, new information as well Don't know Midas from Oedipus? Wouldn't recognize a concerto from a sonata? Many people wish that they could fill ...Show more
Classical Education by Caroline Taggart
$9.95 AUD
Category: REFERENCE | 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
I Used to Know That: - Stuff You Forgot From School by Caroline Taggart
$14.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: I Used to Know That ... | Reading Level: very good
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
Kicking the Bucket at the Drop of a Hat: The Meaning and Origins of Popular Expressions by Caroline Taggart
$14.99 AUD
Category: REFERENCE
A fascinating collection of the many unusual and vibrant phrases that adorn our language, looking at their origins and meanings. Don't be down in the dumps if you can't cut the mustard when asked the definition of certain phrases - this down-to-earth guide is just the ticket. This collection contains so ...Show more
The I Used to Know That Activity Book: Stuff You Forgot from School by Caroline Taggart
$22.99 AUD
Category: Activity | Series: I Used to Know That ... Ser.
Dust off those cerebral filing cabinets and remind yourself of all those facts you really should know! From pi and Pythagoras to presidents and popes, prime ministers to prime numbers, literature to litmus tests, there is so much information from our school days that we have forgotten, or only half-rem ...Show more
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