Feel, listen, predict, memorise... these activities stimulate children's powers of reasoning and imagination and help them visualise numbers, patterns, measures and shapes.

Are you looking for an exciting new career as a flight attendant? Then join us onboard at UPside Airlines, where we soar above the rest! Since 1969, UPside Air has been providing our passengers service throughout the East coast, Midwest and Canada. Chicago, Illinois is serviced by UPside Airlines operating as A STRATA Airlines express carrier. Operating a fleet of over 65 CRJ 200's, our family of 3,500 employees have been happily providing over 40 years of service! Also, as an employee at UPside Airlines, you'll enjoy free flight benefits around the world with our major carrier STRATA Air and it's express carriers as well as our partner hotel, car rental, and cruise companies! So get on board and join us by applying at www.upsideairlines.com! UPside Airlines: Let's soar to new heights!" This was the advertisement that suckered twenty one year old Charles "Chuck" Jenni into applying as a flight attendant at a failing midsize regional airline. This isn't a story of him working at a glorious, respected major carrier. He isn't jet setting to exotic lands and wild destinations. He isn't serving movie stars and famous musicians. This is the story of how he interacts with passengers on delays to make the best of his five-flight-a-day trips. Of how he and his pilots will either go wild and party in the lamest hotels in the most boring cities of the Midwest, or just lock themselves in their rooms and not talk to one another for a four day trip. This is the story of his love affair and heart breaking romance with a co-worker, and of his travels on his days off with fellow flighties around the country. Poetic, comical, and dramatic all at once, Chuck finds himself Flying with eyes closed.

We all have a story to tell I just decided to write mines in poetry. To let people know it's possible to overcome our mountains. I'm not perfect but I do have faith. This book is about overcoming not just mountains but even ourselves. We always think that we know what we are doing and where were going. We have been fooling ourselves in so many ways. This book is to let people know you can change your situations. Sometimes we must go through it so we can show it. To show what faith can do even if it's the size of a mustard seed. This book is to let people know that no matter what your past was like you can still become something special. Your past only determine your future unless you let it. This book is about Pain from a love one, Struggles in Life, Regrets that we make, Victory over the enemy, Faith, Love, Manhood, Family and the Value of Living. You must have a test in order to have a testimony. This book is about becoming a Victor and not a Victim. How you are at your best when you are tired and have nothing left to give in your body. But, you still hold your head high and keep fighting the good fight. Like they say you can get knocked down 5 times as long as you got up 6 times. Somebody told me that it's better to see where you going and that the blind can't lead the blind. I say that's the problem we depend on man to lead. But, also when you can't see where we going. We must depend on somebody to guide us through the dark times. It just depends on who you choose to guide you. The blind can't lead the blind because both are blind MEN. I want GOD to guide me this time. That's why I named the book "Walking With My Eyes Closed".

"Most of us can see, but not everyone looks. Most of us can hear, but not everyone listens. This book will help you do both. And, above all, it will tell you how to enjoy." Bill Oddie "He'll tune your ears to winter's lonely voices - robins, wrens, long-tailed tits - before preparing you for the exultant sounds of spring." The Times Learning to identify birdsong is not just a way to become a better bird-spotter. It is tuning in: a way of hearing the soundtrack of Planet Earth... Why do birds sing? What are they trying to say? Birdsong is not just about natural history. It is also about our history. We got melody from birds as we got rhythm from the womb. This vital book, with an accompanying podcast available online, takes you from winter into deepest spring, teaching you how to recognise song after song as the chorus swells. Beginning with the thin, soft song of the robin and ending with the life-affirming melody of nightingales. Along the way, you will learn the science of birdsong the difference between song and call, the physiology of songbirds, what birdsong tells us about evolution, and indeed the very beginnings of life itself. The aim is to give you a flying start in birdsong so that, after reading this book, you'll be listening to order, not chaos, to Bach, not white noise. You will be more aware of the wild world, and better able to understand it.

Delusion, dementia or discourse? A daughter insists on the latter, and with the threads of her mother's narratives weaves for them a raft of words. These conversations, unlike anything I'd shared with her before, shocked me. I was glad they happened only when we were alone together. I'd never even thought these things I heard us say, didn't know where they came from. But since they seemed to make sense to her, I kept inviting her to speak. She'd say something, I'd listen, say something back;we were together in words. As if what we said to each other arose, not from our own learning or experience, but some underlying chord that included our voices but was bigger, spoke through them, as if the sound of the ocean were encoded in the sounds of the rain. I'll Close My Eyes(But I Won't Be Asleep)sounds an intimate, heartbreaking, and sometimes humorous, end-of-life chord in a mother and daughter relationship.A compelling memoir, I'll Close My Eyes(But I Won't Be Asleep)is an honest account of what, for most of us, remains hidden and unheard. It will be useful for anyone torn by conflicting desires and demands, battered by memory, grief and rage, and struggling to give care. Elisa Adler studied at the University of California, Berkeley, Mills College and, in Bogota, Colombia, at Centro de Estudios Colombo-Americanos. She has worked as a newspaper reporter, translator, interpreter, laborer and domestic, teaches English and Spanish at colleges in California and Nevada, and farms with her daughter and husband in the northern Sierra.