Jones W. Paul Bücher

Open The Cabinet of Calm to find a comforting word that's equal to your troubles. Beginning with the griefs or discomforts we all feel on difficult days, Paul Anthony Jones offers us a matching linguistic remedy: fifty-one soothing words for troubled times. These kind words - alongside their definitions and their stories - will calm and inspire; comfort and delight; and provide fresh hope. Written with a trademark lightness of touch, The Cabinet of Calm shows us that we're not alone. Someone else has felt like this before, and so there's a word to help, whatever the challenge. So much more than a book of words, The Cabinet of Calm will soothe your soul and ease your mind.

A fascinating exploration of the nuts and bolts of human language

A beautiful and irresistible collection of trivia for wordsmiths and lovers of language

A captivating and beautifully written account of riding Britain's longest place-to-place journey by bike, and its history.

A rich resource of etymological fascination and a delightful, dip-able gift book

Beautiful and intriguing: a word for every day of the year

For armchair travellers and language nerds: the surprising stories behind places that have become words.

"Emily Baxter feared she was the sole survivor of a deadly alien plague that swept through New York City, the nation, and the world in a downpour of bloodred rain. And when the dead began transforming into a terrifying new form of life, she feared her survival might be brutally short-lived. Then a human voice crackled from a satellite phone, urging her to flee north, where more refugees of the global annihilation hunkered down in a desolate Alaskan outpost. Now, with only the supplies she can carry and her faithful dog, Emily races across the country, desperate to outrun the horrors close behind."--Back cover.

What would you do if you suddenly found yourself twenty-five years in the past? For the nine billion people living in the year 2042 it's no longer a question...it's a reality. When a seemingly simple experiment goes disastrously wrong, James Baston finds himself stranded in the past alongside the rest of mankind. Here the old are young once more, the dead live again, and civilization is in chaos. With the fate of humanity on the line, James must join a hastily assembled group of scientists, a reincarnated murder victim, and a genius trapped in her six-year-old body to reconcile the earlier mistakes of their future counterparts. The team struggles to prevent global extinction, and along the way they come face-to-face with their past losses, new loves, and a cold-blooded killer. As the team plummets toward a final confrontation, will they be able to undo time's unraveling in order to save the human race? Revised edition: this edition of Toward Yesterday includes editorial revisions.

Netherstorm is an point-buy role-playing game using the Thunderhead role-playing game (RPG) system, in which you have free reign over your character's destiny. A player's character can be a carpenter with dreams of becoming the leader of the largest merchant's guild on Thelal, a delinquent urchin who is destined to lead armies and conquer evil, or a simple apprentice to a priest in a small hometown, with designs on being the head of the order? The choice is entirely up to The player. Design any type of character, and enter the world of Thelal.