A comprehensive introduction for the newcomer, Teach Yourself Classical Music takes the listening experience at its starting point and gradually fills in the technical and historical details. New topics include distinguishing different musical periods and styles, the architecture of musical forms and structures, instrumentation, and more. Also included is a 60-minute CD that features extracts from well-know pieces to highlight what readers should listen for when they hear the works in full.

Teach Yourself Classical Music

Arts & Photography

Collins, Stephen

Music

McGraw=Hill

A book for anybody who's ever had a beard, thought about a beard, seen a beard, not had a beard. The job of the skin is to keep things in. On the buttoned-down island of Here, all is well. By which we mean: orderly, neat, contained and, moreover, beardless. Or at least it is until one famous day, when Dave, bald but for a single hair, finds himself assailed by a terrifying, unstoppable... monster*! Where did it come from? How should the islanders deal with it? And what, most importantly, are they going to do with Dave? The first book from a new leading light of UK comics, The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil is an off-beat fable worthy of Roald Dahl. It is about life, death and the meaning of beards.

The Gigantic Beard That was Evil

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

JONATHAN CAPE.

Here are some comics by Stephen Collins. Or, to be precise, a little over 100 comics by Stephen Collins—some from his weekend Guardian strip, and many unseen. They constitute your opportunity to a) discover what plastic bags really think about b) explore all of the Pope's hot new features c) have everything ruined by the internet. Enjoy!

Some Comics by Stephen Collins

Comic Strips

Television critic Hoe McBride's personal life has crumbled overnight into ruin. Now, through the kitchen window of his darkened apartment, he sees a beautiful, enticing stranger in a neighboring apartment--caught in a provocative pose. And she is watching him back. Hoe is drawn into her world, and becomes a lead player in a deadly ddrama that threatens to devastate his future.

Double Exposure

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

AVON.

This introduction to Visual Basic focuses on important concepts such as event-driven programming and working with objects and progresses to step-by-step, hands-on exercises, and reinforcement activities.

Microsoft Visual Basic BASICS : Book w/ CD

Computers & Technology

Knowlton, Todd

Todd Knowlton,Stephen Collings

Programming Languages

South-Western Pub.

In Double Exposure, Collins plunges readers into a world he knows intimately -- broadcast television. We meet top TV critic Joe McBride, who's doing fine professionally, but whose private life is a mess, what with a five-year-old daughter, an angry ex-wife, and a very-soon-to-be-ex-fiancie, not to mention a come-hither co-anchor, and a beautiful brand-new neighbor who's alluring, available . . . and much, much more than meets the eye.Savvy, sexy, and edge-of-the-seat suspenseful, Double Exposure is the kind of thriller only an industry insider could create, a star turn from a man who knows that when people talk about a role to kill for, sometimes they mean exactly that.

Double Exposure: A Novel

United States

William Morrow

On a cold December morning, four days before Christmas 1985, a new political party was launched on a deeply depressing Irish political scene. At a hastily organised press conference, Desmond O'Malley, Mary Harney and Michael McDowell told a group of sceptical journalists about their plans to radically alter the nature of Irish politics. Despite the cynicism of the depressed 80s, that is precisely what the PDs have done. Their low-tax, free-trade agenda has been the dominant philosophy of the Celtic tiger and has transformed the whole intellectual climate of Irish public life. The PDs have been vastly more important than their time in government has warranted, impressive though that has been. It was they who finally subverted the Fianna Fail core principle of never entering coalition; it is they who have set out the intellectual template for the politics of modern Ireland; it is they who have fundamentally changed the climate of public discourse. Stephen Collins' authoritative history is based on his many years as one of Ireland's most distinguished political journalists; on interviews with leading figures in the party over its twenty years; and on a close observation of the party in power. Love them or hate them, there is no denying the pivotal role that the PDs have played in the making of the new Ireland. '...an excellent, and I believe very accurate, account of the first two decades of the history of this new party' - Garret FitzGerald, "The Irish Times". '...well researched, fluently written and balanced in its judgments. This is the authoritative account of the Progressive Democrats' - Magill. 'Stephen Collins has produced something of a scoop: the inside story of how the Progressive Democrats were formed' - John Bowman chooses one of his books of the year in the "Irish Independent".

Breaking the Mould

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

GILL MACMILLAN

When Fine Gael entered a coalition government with Fianna Fáil in 2020 the party did what would have been unthinkable for its forefathers who fought and won a bitter civil war to establish the institutions of an independent Irish state almost a century earlier. Told through the lens of its leaders and Taoisigh, Saving the State is the fascinating story of the wilderness years and the achievements in government, the defeats and crises, the partnerships and the leadership upheavals that have shaped Fine Gael over the decades. From the special place in the party's pantheon of heroes occupied by Michael Collins to the dark era of the Blueshirts, and from its role as the founders of the state to its claim to be the defenders of the state, the ways that members perceive their own history is also explored. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how Fine Gael came to be the party it is today and the role that it played in shaping modern Ireland.&nbsp; 'A superb, illuminating and even-handed look at the highs and lows in Fine Gael's turbulent history,' David McCullagh, author of DeValera: Rise and DeValera: Rule. &nbsp; 'It is a tremendously well written book. At 418 pages it flows extremely well and is very accessible, even to the uninitiated.' Barry Shep, The Irish Story 'Collins and Meehan have made a valuable contribution to the canon of Irish political histories' David Davin-Power, Irish Independent Review 'fascinating' Matt Cooper, Sunday Business Post 'It's a fascinating insight into the party from day one right up until the present day' Joe Finnegan Show, Northern Sound 'It's a really really detailed and wonderful book' Tommy Marren, Midwest Radio 'Formidable and authoritative' Andrew Lynch, Sunday Business Post

Saving the State: Fine Gael from Collins to Varadkar

Business & Money

Meehan, Ciara

Economics

Gill Books

The aim of this important new book is to investigate the internal and external influences of the East Central European states' negotiations to join the European Union on Germany's policy-making. The book begins by looking in depth at German European policy, moves on to consider domestic policy, the European Union and its relations with Germany and finally the negotiations of East Central European states with German bureaucracy.

German Policy-Making and Eastern Enlargement of the European Union During the Ko: Managing the Agenda?

Manchester University Press

The aim of this important new book is to investigate the internal and external influences of the East Central European states' negotiations to join the European Union on Germany's policy-making. The book begins by looking in depth at German European policy, moves on to consider domestic policy, the European Union and its relations with Germany and finally the negotiations of East Central European states with German bureaucracy.

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Books by Collins, Stephen

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Teach Yourself Classical Music

The Gigantic Beard That was Evil

Some Comics by Stephen Collins

Double Exposure

Microsoft Visual Basic BASICS : Book w/ CD

Double Exposure: A Novel

Breaking the Mould

Saving the State: Fine Gael from Collins to Varadkar

German Policy-Making and Eastern Enlargement of the European Union During the Ko: Managing the Agenda?

German Policy-Making and Eastern Enlargement of the European Union During the Ko: Managing the Agenda?