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Eaton`s Modern Ready Reckoner: Essential Everyday Trivia
`Outrageously addictive` — Stephen FryEaton`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!