Guide to International
Measurement Systems

Þ Metric, Imperial & U.S. measurements – length, area, volume, weight, temperature, and heat.

Þ Easy reference tables and diagrams – equivalents between the different systems for all the measurements.

Þ How to calculate – going from one system to another is explained, including sample step-by-step calculations.

Þ More information – calendars, clothing, shoe, and bedding sizes, cooking and computers.

The Guide provides all the standard international measurements used in other countries and their equivalents in the measures used in your country, including metric, U.K. (Imperial) and U.S. measurements for length, area, volume (cubic, dry, liquid), weight, temperature, and heat.

You will appreciate the explanations of the uses of the measurements and the identification of the ones most commonly used. How to calculate the equivalents from one system to another is explained, including sample calculations. Also included are sections on calendars, clothing, shoe, and bedding sizes, cooking and computers -- information not available on our free Web site.

Your purchase of this service includes a printed Guide book and a 1-year Internet subscription to the information available by password at www.worldvu.com/Measures.

The printed Guide to International Measurement Systems will be issued in 2003 and will be 4-1/4 by 8-1/2 inches (107 by 214 cm.). All the information contained in the print edition is also available on this Web site by subscription and can be searched. To see what's in the Guide, view the Table of Contents and Samples.