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This Week’s Word Is “Genius.”
Back to DK books this week with a new book called General Knowledge Genius. Subtitled, “A quiz encyclopedia to boost your brain,” it’s essentially a technicolor revision* guide to just about everything.
*Note: The British (that includes me!) use “to revise” to mean to study for exams, rather than to edit things. So revision is to study something not change it! Though, of course, because life is never simple, we do sometimes use it to mean “edit” too. Further note: In the US, the book is just called Knowledge Genius. Somebody clearly revised the title!
What is General Knowledge Genius?
In essence, it’s an encyclopedia with test questions. DK produces many great information books about a variety of subjects and this is a great way of slicing and dicing their back catalog to deliver something fresh. It’s Monday night dinner, made from Sunday lunch leftovers for knowledge geeks.
General Knowledge Genius is filled with facts and pictures, as you might expect, for a DK book, but the text is a little different from your average encyclopedia…
