248 counted cross stitch chart designs in black and white charting. From insects to birds to mythical creatures, to angels. Make up pictures, tissue covers, bookmarks, wallk hangings, towels, hats and much more.
If you’re like most couples, you’ve already discovered that things change when two lives merge into one. After months of focusing on creating the perfect wedding and planning the dream honeymoon, it can come as a rude awakening that everyday life revolves around things that are a a bit more… everyday. Like doing the laundry. Paying the bills. And eating 1,095 meals a year.
Looking at the technology all around us-and then explaining how it works, the How Things Work Encyclopedia lifts the hood of a car engine, gets inside a TV set, and discovers the power of invisible microwaves. With close-ups, cutaways, and diagrams bringing the technology to life, and timelines illustrating the development of inventions, challenging curiosity quizzes and fascinating facts, the How Things Work Encyclopedia lets children really see and understand what's going on inside.
The New York Times best-selling author of Better and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist. We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies - neither seems to prevent grievous errors. But in a hopeful turn, acclaimed surgeon and writer Atul Gawande finds a remedy in the humblest and simplest of techniques: the checklist. First introduced decades ago by the U.S. Air Force, checklists have enabled pilots to fly aircraft of mind-boggling sophistication.
In Sound, the inhabitants of Mammoth Island learn how sound energy travels in waves. While herding their mammoths toward fresh pasture through a maze of canyons, someone sneezes and the sound reverberates, startling the timid mammoths and causing them to run away! A visiting inventor explains that sounds are caused by the movement of molecules -- what scientists refer to as vibrations. Thinking about how our ears translate vibrations into sound leads a bright young Islander, Olive, to create a primitive microphone.
