An illustrated history of Britain's coal mines and the lives of the miners who worked in them. Coal heated the homes, fuelled the furnaces and powered the engines of the Industrial Revolution. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the coalfields - distinct landscapes of colliery winding frames, slag heaps and mining villages - made up Britain's industrial heartlands. Coal was known as 'black gold' but it was only brought to the surface with skill and at considerable risk, with flooding, rock falls and gas explosions a constant danger. Coal miners became a recognised force in British political life, forming a vociferous and often militant lobby for better working conditions and a decent standard of living. This beautifully illustrated guide to Britain's industrial heritage covers not just the mines, but the lives of the workers away from the pits, with a focus on the cultural and religious life of mining communities.

This volume examines the rise of Turkish power in Anatolia from the arrival of the first Turks at the end of the eleventh century to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Taking the period as a whole, the volume covers the political, economic, social, intellectual and cultural history of the region as the Byzantine empire crumbled and Anatolia passed into Turkish control to become the heartland of the Ottoman empire. In this way, the authors emphasise the continuities of the era rather than its dislocations, situating Anatolia within its geographic context at the crossroads of Central Asia, the Middle East and the Mediterranean. The world which emerges is one of military encounter, but also of cultural cohabitation, intellectual and diplomatic exchange, and political finesse. This is a state-of-the-art work of reference on an understudied period in Turkish history by some of the leading scholars in the field.

Es ist das große außenpolitische Thema des Jahres 2024: Am 5. November wird in den USA ein neuer Präsident gewählt. Amtsinhaber Joe Biden wirkt geschwächt und verliert immer mehr an Rückhalt – gerade bei den jüngeren Anhänger:innen der Demokraten, während sein republikanischer Herausforderer auch vor den krudesten Behauptungen nicht zurückschreckt, um seine Gefolgschaft zu mobilisieren. Trumps Hetze sorgt aber auch dafür, dass die problematischen Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen den politischen Gegnern aus dem Blickfeld geraten: Biden hat die rigide Abschottungspolitik an der Südgrenze zu Mexiko nicht nur fortgesetzt, sondern noch verstärkt, und er befeuert wie Trump eine Anti-China-Rhetorik, die vor allem den Giganten aus dem Silicon Valley in die Hände spielt. Doch sollte Trump, der zurzeit in vier Verfahren mit 91 Anklagepunkten in New York, Florida, Georgia und Washington, D. C., vor Gericht steht, tatsächlich ein zweites Mal ins Weiße Haus einziehen, ist zu befürchten, dass er die älteste Demokratie der Welt zu einer Autokratie umbaut. Die Wahl wird zudem die Risse in der US-amerikanischen Gesellschaft weiter vergrößern. Die Gräben zwischen den demokratischen Eliten in den großen Küstenmetropolen, Black-Lives-Matter-Aktivist:innen von Chicago bis Atlanta, evangelikalen Abtreibungsgegnern und Waffenfans im sogenannten Heartland scheinen unüberwindbar. Es ist der Kampf zwischen dem liberalen Amerika, das stolz auf seine Geschichte als Einwanderer-Nation blickt, und dem isolationistischen Rückzug des Trump’schen „America first“.

Written by Preacher co-creator Garth Ennis, Hellblazer by Garth Ennis Omnibus Vol. 1 collects the game changing stories that breathed new life into the fan favorite character, John Constantine. John Constantine is dying. As a sorcerer literally haunted by the demons of his past, John is no stranger to mystic bedevilment or supernatural horror. But it's his chain smoking that ultimately brings death to Constantine's front door. Between this, and investigations of a grisly serial murderer and strategies against the Lord of Hell, there is no rest for the wicked. Especially when your name is John Constantine. Written by Garth Ennis (Preacher, Punisher MAX) with art by fan favorites Steve Dillon (Preacher, Punisher MAX) Hellblazer by Garth Ennis Omnibus Vol. 1 brings together Ennis' entire run for the first time! Collects Hellblazer #41-50, #52-83, #129-131, Vertigo Jam #1, Hellblazer Special #1, Heartland #1, Vertigo: Winter's Edge #2

Es ist das große außenpolitische Thema des Jahres 2024: Am 5. November wird in den USA ein neuer Präsident gewählt. Amtsinhaber Joe Biden wirkt geschwächt und verliert immer mehr an Rückhalt – gerade bei den jüngeren Anhänger:innen der Demokraten, während sein republikanischer Herausforderer auch vor den krudesten Behauptungen nicht zurückschreckt, um seine Gefolgschaft zu mobilisieren. Trumps Hetze sorgt aber auch dafür, dass die problematischen Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen den politischen Gegnern aus dem Blickfeld geraten: Biden hat die rigide Abschottungspolitik an der Südgrenze zu Mexiko nicht nur fortgesetzt, sondern noch verstärkt, und er befeuert wie Trump eine Anti-China-Rhetorik, die vor allem den Giganten aus dem Silicon Valley in die Hände spielt. Doch sollte Trump, der zurzeit in vier Verfahren mit 91 Anklagepunkten in New York, Florida, Georgia und Washington, D. C., vor Gericht steht, tatsächlich ein zweites Mal ins Weiße Haus einziehen, ist zu befürchten, dass er die älteste Demokratie der Welt zu einer Autokratie umbaut. Die Wahl wird zudem die Risse in der US-amerikanischen Gesellschaft weiter vergrößern. Die Gräben zwischen den demokratischen Eliten in den großen Küstenmetropolen, Black-Lives-Matter-Aktivist:innen von Chicago bis Atlanta, evangelikalen Abtreibungsgegnern und Waffenfans im sogenannten Heartland scheinen unüberwindbar. Es ist der Kampf zwischen dem liberalen Amerika, das stolz auf seine Geschichte als Einwanderer-Nation blickt, und dem isolationistischen Rückzug des Trump’schen „America first“.

#1 BESTSELLER • A collection of bone-chilling, nail-biting tales from the undisputed master of horror that showcases the darkest depths of his brilliant imagination and will "chill the cockles of many a heart" (Chicago Tribune).• INCLUDES THE STORY “THE BOOGEYMAN” – NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM 20th CENTURY STUDIOS Originally published in 1978, Night Shift is the inspiration for over a dozen acclaimed horror movies and television series, including Children of the Corn, Chapelwaite, and Lawnmower Man. Night Shift is Stephen King's first collection of short stories--a perfect showcase of just how far King's dark imagination can go. Here we see mutated rats gone bad ("Graveyard Shift"); a cataclysmic virus that threatens humanity ("Night Surf," the basis for The Stand); a possessed, evil lawnmower ("The Lawnmower Man"); unsettling children from the heartland ("Children of the Corn"); a smoker who will try anything to stop ("Quitters, Inc."); a reclusive alcoholic who begins a gruesome transformation ("Gray Matter"); and many more. This is Stephen King at his horrifying best.

True crime in the American heartland. Under the Banner of Heaven is a riveting account of Mormon fundamentalism and renegade prophets. From the bestselling author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air. Now a major TV miniseries starring Andrew Garfield. Brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty insist they were commanded to kill by God. Jon Krakauer's investigation into the murder of a mother and her child is a meticulously researched, bone-chilling narrative of polygamy, savage violence and unyielding faith. An incisive look inside isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities in America, this gripping work of non-fiction illuminates an otherwise confounding realm of human behaviour. 'A provocative look at the twisted roots of American fundamentalism.' - Will Self, Evening Standard 'Books of the Year' 'Excellent . . . a lucid, judicious, even sympathetic account not just of Mormon Fundamentalism but of the seductive power of fanaticism in general.' - Daily Telegraph 'Remarkable . . . for anyone interested in the wilder frontiers of spiritual conviction, this book is a must.' - Independent

#1 BESTSELLER • A collection of bone-chilling, nail-biting tales from the undisputed master of horror that showcases the darkest depths of his brilliant imagination and will "chill the cockles of many a heart" (Chicago Tribune).• INCLUDES THE STORY “THE BOOGEYMAN” – NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM 20th CENTURY STUDIOS Originally published in 1978, Night Shift is the inspiration for over a dozen acclaimed horror movies and television series, including Children of the Corn, Chapelwaite, and Lawnmower Man. Night Shift is Stephen King's first collection of short stories--a perfect showcase of just how far King's dark imagination can go. Here we see mutated rats gone bad ("Graveyard Shift"); a cataclysmic virus that threatens humanity ("Night Surf," the basis for The Stand); a possessed, evil lawnmower ("The Lawnmower Man"); unsettling children from the heartland ("Children of the Corn"); a smoker who will try anything to stop ("Quitters, Inc."); a reclusive alcoholic who begins a gruesome transformation ("Gray Matter"); and many more. This is Stephen King at his horrifying best.

The Zazas, (also known as Kird, Kirmanc or Dimili) are a people in eastern Anatolia who natively speak the Zaza language. Their heartland, the Dersim region, consists of Tunceli, Bingöl provinces and parts of Elazig, Erzincan and Diyarbakir provinces. The majority of Zazas consider themselves ethnic Kurds, part of the Kurdish nation,Among Kurdish Social groups, However, Zazas identify themselves with different names changing from region to region. Kirmancs, Kirds, Dimili/Dumbili and Zazas. And the dialect carry the names of their different regions - Kirmanchki, Kirdki, Dimilki and Zazaki. Compared to other Kurdish dialects, their dialect alone retains characteristics from ancient languages which have been preserved through time. Zazas originated in eastern Anatolia and are genetically indistinguishable from their Kurmanji neighbors, although linguistically connected to the region south of the Caspian Sea. The future of the Zaza will greatly be determined by the political processes in Turkey through the Government policies in Turkey. and through the prospective of Kurdish movement and the activity of Zaza intellectuals themselves.

The day Joe Remington brought his new bride to Fell Rise, he had already sensed she might not settle easily into his home just outside the Tyneside town of Fellburn. Making plain her disapproval of Joe's familiarity with the servants, questioning the donation of food to striking miners' families - these objections and more soon rubbed Joe and the local people up the wrong way, a problem he could easily have done without. For this was 1926, the year of the General Strike, the effects of which would nowhere be felt more acutely than in this heartland of the North-East. Then when Elaine became pregnant, she saw it as a disaster and only the willingness of her unmarried sister Betty to come an see her through her confinement made it bearable. But in the long run, would Betty's presence only serve to widen the rift between husband and wife, or would she help to bring about a reconciliation?

At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey--to walk to Constantinople." A Time of Gifts" is the rich account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which "Between the Woods and the Water" continues the story to the Iron Gates that divide the Carpathian and Balkan mountains. Acclaimed for its sweep and intelligence, Leigh Fermor's book explores a remarkable moment in time. Hitler has just come to power but war is still ahead, as he walks through a Europe soon to be forever changed--through the Lowlands to Mitteleuropa, to Teutonic and Slav heartlands, through the baroque remains of the Holy Roman Empire; up the Rhine, and down to the Danube. At once a memoir of coming-of-age, an account of a journey, and a dazzling exposition of the English language, "A Time of Gifts" is also a portrait of a continent already showing ominous signs of the holocaust to come.

We often think of the modern era as the age of American power. In reality, we're living in a long, violent Eurasian century. Eurasia is a strategic prize without equal-which is why the world has been roiled, reshaped and nearly destroyed by clashes over the supercontinent. Since the early twentieth century, autocratic powers have aspired for dominance by seizing commanding positions in the world's strategic heartland. Offshore sea powers, namely the United Kingdom and America, have sought to make the world safe for democracy by keeping Eurasia in balance. America's rivalries with China, Russia and Iran are the next round in this geopolitical game. Hal Brands argues that a better understanding of Eurasia's strategic geography can illuminate the contours of rivalry and conflict in today's world. The Eurasian Century explains how revolutions in technology and warfare and the rise of toxic ideologies of conquest made Eurasia the centre of twentieth-century geopolitics-with pressing implications for the struggles that will define the twenty-first.

3000 Kilometer. Ein großer Strom. Unterwegs in einem Liegerad an den Ufern des Mississippi. Der Mississippi ist der amerikanischste aller Flüsse. Auf dem Ol' Man River wurden das Pokern und das Wasserskifahren erfunden. An seinen Ufern entstanden Blues, Jazz und Rock'n'Roll. Jahrzehntelang bildete der Mississippi die natürliche Grenze zum "Wilden Westen". Und im Bürgerkrieg behielt die Oberhand, wer den Fluss kontrollierte. Einen Monat lang folgt Thomas Bauer dem großen Fluss mit seinem Velomobil - einem Liegerad - von der Quelle bis nach New Orleans. Auf seinem Road Trip durch zehn US-Staaten trifft er Indianer und Gelegenheitsarbeiter, Barschönheiten und Fernfahrer - und alle wählen sie Donald Trump. Der Mittlere Westen der USA ist derb und rau, lärmend, völlig durchgeknallt und doch liebenswert. Man nimmt schon zum Frühstück 2000 Kalorien zu sich, besucht Waffenmessen und schimpft auf die "Bonzen aus Washington". Im Land der dicken Autos ist der Autor mit seinem zerbrechlichen Gefährt unterwegs. Wo immer er anhält, eilen die Leute herbei. Sie wollen wissen, was ein Deutscher mit einem solchen "Dings" in ihrem Land vorhat, und erzählen ihm ihre Geschichten. In New Orleans wird Thomas Bauer klar: "Wer den Flüssen zuhört, kann alles erfahren und alles lernen." Begleiten Sie ihn auf einer abenteuerlichen Fahrt mitten durch das amerikanische Heartland. millemari. Wir verlegen Bücher und Filme über die innere und die äußere Reise. Über Reisen, die bewegen und darüber, wie wir uns ändern, wenn sich die Orte ändern. Segler denken nachhaltig! Anders als viele Verlage drucken wir ein Buch nur dann, wenn es bestellt wurde. Das vermeidet nicht nur die Abholzung ganzer Wälder. Es schont auch die Umwelt. Jetzt gibt es die millemari.-Bücher auch als hochwertige Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag und Lesebändchen. Jedes Buch ein Unikat!

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. If there is one man to whom I do feel myself inferior, it is a coalminer. In the mid-1930s, George Orwell was given an assignment from his publisher - to write a book about unemployment and social conditions in the economically depressed north of England. Revolutionary for its time, The Road to Wigan Pier documents Orwell's stint in towns likes Barnsley, Sheffield and Wigan in 1936, where he met and observed working-class people living in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire. Orwell graphically and emphatically describes the hardships of ordinary people living in cramped slum housing, working in dangerous mines and growing hungry through malnutrition and social injustice. It is an honest, gripping and humane study that also looks at socialism as a solution to the problems facing working-class northerners - something many readers at the time were uncomfortable discussing. The Road to Wigan Pier cemented ideas that would be found in Orwell's later works, and remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice and class divisions in Britain to this day.

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949), nicknamed'The Boss', is an American singer-songwriter. He records and tours with the ¿ E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of heartland rock infused with pop hooks, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered on his native New Jersey. Springsteen's recordings have tended to alternate between commercially accessible rock albums and somber folk-oriented works. Much of his status stems from the concerts and marathon shows in which he and the E Street Band perform intense ballads, rousing anthems, and party rock and roll songs, amongst which he intersperses whimsical or deeply emotional stories. His most successful studio albums, ¿ Born to Run and Born in the U.S.A., epitomize his penchant for finding grandeur in the struggles of daily life in America, and the latter album made him one of the most recognized artists of the 1980s within the United States. Because of his support for the presidential campaigns of Senator John Kerry and Senator Barack Obama, Springsteen has gradually become identified with liberal politics. nOriginalBarCode: 9786130098124

One night Mark Cocker followed the roiling, deafening flock of rooks and jackdaws which regularly passed over his Norfolk home on their way to roost in the Yare valley. From the moment he watched the multitudes blossom as a mysterious dark flower above the night woods, these gloriously commonplace birds were unsheathed entirely from their ordinariness. They became for Cocker a fixation and a way of life. Cocker goes in search of them, journeying from the cavernous, deadened heartland of South England to the hills of Dumfriesshire, experiencing spectacular failures alongside magical successes and epiphanies. Step by step he uncovers the complexities of the birds' inner lives, the unforeseen richness hidden in the raucous crow song he calls 'our landscape made audible'. Crow Country is a prose poem in a long tradition of English pastoral writing. It is also a reminder that 'Crow Country' is not 'ours': it is a landscape which we cohabit with thousands of other species, and these richly complex fellowships cannot be valued too highly. One Midsummer's Day by Mark Cocker coming in June 2023.

3000 Kilometer. Ein großer Strom. Unterwegs in einem Liegerad an den Ufern des Mississippi. Der Mississippi ist der amerikanischste aller Flüsse. Auf dem Ol' Man River wurden das Pokern und das Wasserskifahren erfunden. An seinen Ufern entstanden Blues, Jazz und Rock'n'Roll. Jahrzehntelang bildete der Mississippi die natürliche Grenze zum "Wilden Westen". Und im Bürgerkrieg behielt die Oberhand, wer den Fluss kontrollierte. Einen Monat lang folgt Thomas Bauer dem großen Fluss mit seinem Velomobil - einem Liegerad - von der Quelle bis nach New Orleans. Auf seinem Road Trip durch zehn US-Staaten trifft er Indianer und Gelegenheitsarbeiter, Barschönheiten und Fernfahrer - und alle wählen sie Donald Trump. Der Mittlere Westen der USA ist derb und rau, lärmend, völlig durchgeknallt und doch liebenswert. Man nimmt schon zum Frühstück 2000 Kalorien zu sich, besucht Waffenmessen und schimpft auf die "Bonzen aus Washington". Im Land der dicken Autos ist der Autor mit seinem zerbrechlichen Gefährt unterwegs. Wo immer er anhält, eilen die Leute herbei. Sie wollen wissen, was ein Deutscher mit einem solchen "Dings" in ihrem Land vorhat, und erzählen ihm ihre Geschichten. In New Orleans wird Thomas Bauer klar: "Wer den Flüssen zuhört, kann alles erfahren und alles lernen." Begleiten Sie ihn auf einer abenteuerlichen Fahrt mitten durch das amerikanische Heartland. millemari. Wir verlegen Bücher und Filme über die innere und die äußere Reise. Über Reisen, die bewegen und darüber, wie wir uns ändern, wenn sich die Orte ändern. Segler denken nachhaltig! Anders als viele Verlage drucken wir ein Buch nur dann, wenn es bestellt wurde. Das vermeidet nicht nur die Abholzung ganzer Wälder. Es schont auch die Umwelt. Jetzt gibt es die millemari.-Bücher auch als hochwertige Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag und Lesebändchen. Jedes Buch ein Unikat!

The DC McFarlane Collector Edition series of action figures brings back the classic looks of heroes and villains across DC Comics! The DC McFarlane Collector Edition Wave 5 Sergeant Rock DC Classic 7-Inch Scale Action Figure comes with 4 x extra hands, pack, knife, trench shovel, helmet, display base, and card stand. Also included is a collectible art card with a character biography on the back. Fully articulated, the limited-edition figure is showcased in premium window box packaging. Always at the vanguard of WWII&#39,s bloodiest battles, Sergeant Rock shepherded Easy Company from the beaches of Normandy into the heartland of Germany. The quintessential soldier, Frank followed orders and got the job done swiftly and efficiently, witnessing extraordinary events during wartime, even the presence of super-powered beings on the battlefield. In later years, Frank most clearly recalls the horror of seeing men on both sides and an endless parade of greenhorns get maimed or killed. When hostilities ceased, he stayed a soldier, serving his country as both educator and clandestine agent. Achtung! Nicht für Kinder unter 3 Jahren geeignet wegen verschluckbarer Kleinteile.

Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2025 Longlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction A Times best History Book of the Year 2024 It's time to meet the real Vikings. A comb, preserved in a bog, engraved with the earliest traces of a new writing system. A pagan shrine deep beneath a lava field. A note from an angry wife to a husband too long at the tavern. Doodles on birch-bark, made by an imaginative child. From these tiny embers, Eleanor Barraclough blows back to life the vast, rich and complex world of the Vikings. These are not just the stories of kings, raiders and saga heroes. Here are the lives of ordinary people: the merchants, children, artisans, enslaved people, seers, travellers and storytellers who shaped the medieval Nordic world. Immerse yourself in the day-to-day lives of an extraordinary culture that spanned centuries and spread from its Scandinavian heartlands to the remote fjords of Greenland, the Arctic wastelands, the waterways and steppes of Eurasia, all the way to the Byzantine Empire and Islamic Caliphate. 'Every page glittering with insight... [a] wonderful book' Dominic Sandbrook 'Brilliantly written... evokes the wonder of an entire civilisation.' Tom Holland

Why did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance? In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy were high. And yet the transformation of Eastern European countries gave rise to a bitter repudiation of liberalism itself, not only there but also back in the heartland of the West. In this brilliant work of political history, Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes argue that the supposed end of Communism turned out to be only the beginning of the age of the autocrat. Reckoning with the history of the last thirty years, they show that the most powerful force behind the wave of populist xenophobia that began in Eastern Europe stems from resentment at the post-1989 imperative to become Westernized. Through this prism, the Trump revolution represents an ironic fulfillment of the promise that the nations exiting from communist rule would come to resemble the United States. In a strange twist, Trump has elevated Putin's Russia and Orbän's Hungary into models for the United States. Written by two pre-eminent intellectuals bridging the East/West divide, The Light That Failed is a landmark book that sheds light on the extraordinary history of the fall of the Western ideal.