A reissue of Bernadette Mayer's classic fugitive intergenre text.Co-published with SplitLevel TextsEndlessly inclusive, The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters, first published in 1994 and long out of print, evokes the complexity of real persons as it simultaneously reinvents multiple genres: epistle, prose poem, and memoir. Written between 1979 and 1980 while pregnant with her third child, Mayer extends her imaginative letters into medi...

Menschliche Entscheidungsträger treffen täglich unzählige Entscheidungen, deren Folgen von geringer bis hin zu weitreichender Bedeutung sein können. Bei der Entscheidungsfindung bzw. Problemlösung greifen sie auf Wissen zurück. Verfügen sie nicht über ausreichendes Wissen, ist eine weitere Informationsaufnahme und -verarbeitung erforderlich, die die kognitiven Fähigkeiten berücksichtigt. Diese kann u. a. durch die Bereitstellung von Advice erfolgen. Entscheidungsträger nutzen Advice, um ih...

At Maureen's, a new book from Bernadette Mayer and Greg Masters New York, Feb. 2013 – Crony Books is pleased to announce the publication of a new book, At Maureen's, by Bernadette Mayer and Greg Masters. At Maureen's is a double journal offering a Rashomon-like take on a month spent housesitting in Connecticut. Two poets from the bohemian enclaves of the East Village of Manhattan do what they can to acclimate to their new rural surroundings: a horse, raspberries, visitors, diapers, books, ...

This book provides an evidentiary basis for policy decisions regarding initial teacher education and beginning teaching and informs the design and delivery of teacher preparation programs. Based on a rigorous analysis of international literature and the policy context for teacher education globally, and assessing data generated through a longitudinal study conducted in Australia, it investigates the effectiveness of teacher education in preparing teachers for the variety of school settings...