Michael Hume: 4 books

Dugger Coleman is the songwriter who gave the world “The Anniversary Carol” – in 1949, it went to the top of the holiday charts!  It was his only hit… and, unfortunately, he never made a dime from it.  Now, at 94, he’s lost the love he once had for Christmas.  And he’s abandoned...

This is the first comprehensive review of the hundreds of bird species that have become extinct over the last 1,000 years of habitat degradation, over-hunting and rat introduction. Covering both familiar extinct birds and more obscure species, some known from just one specimen or from traveller's...

Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology...

This book is a wide-ranging study of British literature and art from the late seventeenth through the early nineteenth centuries, one that stresses the connections between visual and verbal representation. Key emphases of the book include aesthetics, the aims and motives of individual producers of...