Eaton's Modern Ready Reckoner: Essential Everyday Trivia

by ThomasEaton (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2018

  $3.51

  'Outrageously addictive' -- Stephen Fry Thomas Eaton's 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, Thomas Eaton's 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, 'wake words' 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 Ready Reckoner is a wonderful revival of a forgotten treasure trove of facts, figures and trivial delights!