Eaton's Modern Ready Reckoner: Essential Everyday Trivia - Couverture rigide

Eaton, Thomas

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ISBN 10 : 1788700821 ISBN 13 : 9781788700825

Editeur : BLINK Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

'Outrageously addictive' -- Stephen Fry

Eaton's Modern Ready Reckoner revives the curiosities of old, mixing it with the delights and complexities of the 21st Century. A nostalgic gift book for the modern trivia-loving brainiac in your life, Eaton's Modern Ready Reckoner contains information on everything and anything, from digital algorithms, to weights and measures; SpaceX to interest rates; monarchs, presidents and rap stars. But not only that, it includes out-of-this world trivia as we head into the age of the Large Hadron Collider, of stem cell therapy, Bitcoin, and Netflix; of vaping, emojis and the hashtag; as well as updates on Reckoner classics from days of yore - including metric and imperial conversions; sunrise and sunset times across the world; and, perhaps more usefully, how to tell the height of a tree.

Compiled by quiz-buff and self-confessed 'collector of curiosities' Thomas Eaton, Eaton's Modern Ready Reckoner is a wonderful revival of a forgotten treasure trove of facts, figures and trivial delights!

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À propos de l'auteur

A self-styled 'collector of curiosities', Thomas Eaton is the fiendish question setter for the Guardian's Weekend magazine, and has written for TV quizzes The Weakest Link and The Chase.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: BLINK Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1788700821
• ISBN 13: 9781788700825
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne