Author: Juan Bautista Avalle-Arce This is an edition of the parts of the Quincuagenas of Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo that the author considers aspectos de las Quincuagenas que podemos considerar respaldados por las vivencias del autor, hence the title Memorias. We are left, however, with two substantial volumes of which this is the second.

Author: Michela Ippolito In this book, Michela Ippolito proposes a compositional semantics for subjunctive (or would) conditionals in English that accounts for their felicity conditions and the constraints on the satisfaction of their presuppositions by capitalizing on the occurrence of past tense morphology in both antecedent and consequent clauses. Very little of the extensive literature on subjunctive conditionals tries to account for the meaning of these sentences compositionally or to relate this meaning to their linguistic form; this book fills that gap, connecting the different lines of research on conditionals. Ippolito's proposal will be of interest both to linguists and to philosophers concerned with conditionals and modality more generally.Ippolito reviews previous analyses of counterfactuals and subjunctive conditionals in the work of David Lewis, Robert Stalnaker, Angelika Kratzer, and others; considers the contrast between future simple past subjunctive conditionals and future past perfect subjunctive conditionals; presents a proposal for subjunctive conditionals that addresses puzzles left unsolved by previous proposals; reviews a number of presupposition triggers showing that they fit the pattern predicted by her proposal; and discusses an asymmetry between the past and the future among subjunctive conditionals, arguing that the best account of our linguistic intuitions must include an indeterministic view of the world.

Author: Ken Behrens The Indian Ocean island of Madagascar is one of the worlds great natural treasures and ecotourism destinations. Despite being an island, it is home to nearly an entire continents variety of species, from the famous lemurs to a profusion of bizarre and beautiful birds, reptiles and amphibians. Wildlife of Madagascar is a compact and beautifully illustrated photographic guide, and an essential companion for any visitor or resident. With an eye-catching design, authoritative and accessible text and easy-to-use format, it provides information on identification, distribution, habitat, behaviour, biology and conservation for all the mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and butterflies likely to be seen.

Author: new and selected poems by Sidney Wade Throughout her seven critically acclaimed collections, Sidney Wade has established herself as a poet with a serious but light touch, one capable of the clarity and inventiveness it takes to work a problem both to pleasure and to resolution. Playing with and challenging form in all directions, the 27 new and 96 selected poems in Deep Gossip bristle with a sly wit that trips and delights the reader. Wade disguises some sonnets by arranging their perfect rhymes so they're not immediately audible. She composes other sonnets in dimeter, rather than pentameter; works in syllabics; includes one poem written in the octave stanza form invented by John Berryman for his book-length Homage to Mistress Bradstreet; and entrances readers with her long and skinny couplets, a form she perfected in her last collection, Bird Book. Inspired by landscape, language, music, and living things, as well as the occasional bout of political outrage, Deep Gossip is a smart collection, deceptively so. Praise for Other Books by Sidney Wade The quick, closely observed poems in Sidney Wade's beguiling Bird Book move from page to page like their subjectsin flight, on air, a murmuration sweeping across the horizon.William Souder Sidney Wade's linguistic and philosophical turns in Bird Book confirm that she is both the supreme heir to Wallace Stevens and one of the most original poets in the language.Randall Mann This is a beautiful, wise, and timely collection.Daniel Anderson As impressive and thrillingly exact as these poems are concerning matters ornithological, it is the exquisite music 'earth-sprung, bright, and resonant'of Wade's radically short line that so enchants me, the free play of interlinear rhyme, phonemic harmonies, and small bursts of metrical rhythms that yield more vitality and delight than any gathering of poems I have encountered in a very long time.B. H. Fairchild Her poems [are] . . . a particular and splendid instance of what Hopkins meant by 'poetry proper, the language of inspiration.' Richard Howard