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Dies ist das Handbuch für alle, die erfolgreich Poker spielen möchten - vorsichtige Einsteiger ebenso wie leidenschaftliche Turnierspieler.

Have you ever struggled to remember your favourite childhood game so you can teach it to your own children?

Ever wondered why Tsar Ivan was the dubbed the Terrible or how King Henri II of France perished in a jousting incident?

The Story of English illustrates the compelling history of how the relatively obscure dialects spoken by tribes from what are now Denmark, the Low Countries and northern Germany, became the most widely spoken language in the world, and of how that language evolved during the last two millennia.

For those whose memories of learning science at school consist of burning magnesium and playing with iron filings and a magnet, and whose brains shut down as soon as things start to sound too technical, I Used to Know That: General Science is here to remind you of everything youve forgotten or should have learned.

If your response to a mention of the Wars of the Roses, the Sumerians or the Reformation is, Hmm, Ive heard of that what was that again?