The Knowledge (book series)

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The Knowledge, one of the many spin-offs of Horrible Histories, is a UK book series for children, written by many different writers. It provides factual information on many subjects and originates from the Scholastic publishing company.

Its many writers include Terry Deary (author of the Horrible Histories), Nick Arnold (author of the Horrible Science) and Kjartan Poskitt (author of the Murderous Maths).

[edit] Book list

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Awesome Archeology - Nick Arnold (Archeology)
Awful Art - Michael Cox (Art)
Cracking Codes - Diana Kimpton (Codes)
Crafty Crime-Busting - Rachel Wright (Detectives, Private Investigators and how to solve crime)
Crashing Computers - Michael Coleman (Computers)
Dead Dinosaurs - Martin Oliver ((Dinosaurs]])
Dreadful Drama - Rachel Wright (Drama and Theater)
Even Fouler Football - Michael Coleman (Football)
Fantastic Future - Dr. Mike Goldsmith (The Future)
Flaming Olympics - Michael Coleman (special editions made for for Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004) (The Olympics)
Flaming Olympics Quiz Book - Michael Coleman (Questions on The Olympics)
Foul Football - Michael Coleman (Football)
The Gobsmacking Galaxy - Kjartan Poskitt (The Milky Way and other galaxies)
Groovy Movies - Martin Oliver (Films and the movie industry)
The Incredible Internet - Michael Cox (The Internet)
Mind-Blowing Music - Michael Cox (Music)
Mind-Boggling Buildings - Michael Cox (Buildings)
More Murderous Maths - Kjartan Poskitt (Maths)
Murderous Maths - Kjartan Poskitt (Maths)
Mystical Magic - Ivor Baddiel and Jonny Zucker (Magic)
Phenomenal F.A. Cup (The F.A Cup)
Potty Politics - Terry Deary (Politics)
Riotous Robots - Dr. Mike Goldsmith (Robots)
Smashin' Fashion - Michael Cox (Fashion)
Spectacular Special Effects - Diana Kimpton (Special Effects)
Spoilt Royals - Alan MacDonald (Monarchs and other forms of royalty)
Triffic Chocolate - Alan MacDonald (Chocolate)
Wicked World Cup - Michael Coleman (The World Cup)

Bold - Officially part of the Foul Football series now.
Italics - Officially part of the Murderous Maths series now.

[edit] Murderous Maths and Foul Football

Two books in The Knowledge series are Murderous Maths and More Murderous Maths however Kjartan Poskitt incorporated these two books and many others into their own Murderous Maths series. Due to this, these two books don't have The Knowledge logo at the top and are now officially part of the Murderous Maths series. The same sort of incident has occurred with one The Knowledge book known as Foul Football, which has started a whole series of its own as well, called Foul Football.[1]