Explores how life is organized around time and its conflicting perceptions, drawing on the author's international travels and research lab visits where he witnessed fascinating time-altering phenomena.

Read all about lengths, areas, volumes, and speeds, and learn how to calculate them.

Describes the concept of time and how it has been measured throughout history, using water clocks, sundials, calendars, and atomic vibrations.

"Every body is different, and standard sizes certainly do not fit all! You're going to spend hours making your homesewn garment, so you want to be sure the final product will fit flawlessly. This starts with a pattern that is drawn to your (or your model's) exact measurements. With The Perfect Fit as your guide, you'll learn the necessary skills for altering "off-the-rack" patterns to measure, and even drafting your own creations. For amateur sewists...

"It's learning time, and Timothy Time makes it fun with this animated DVD. No more struggles trying to read traditional clocks. Using music, kids learn to tell time to the hour, half hour, quarter hour, and exact minute. They learn about a.m. and p.m. and practice counting by fives." - container.

In today's world, kids need to know how to tell time quickly and accurately by using both digital and traditional (analog) clocks. Now, it's a breeze with the help of Timothy Time and his friends. Teaches kids the parts of an analog clock; telling time to the hour, the half hour, the quarter hour; practice counting by fives; telling time to five minutes and the exact minute; digital clocks and stopwatches; calendars, days of the week, months of the...

The geographic coordinate system is expressed latitude and longitude. Latitude represents the vertical geographic position while the longitude represents the horizontal position. Both the latitude and the longitude are composed of a set of numbers. Reading the coordinates now is important in finding your way around the world tomorrow.