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The Boy Who Delivered Joy

By: Marvin Bartlett

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A rare bone cancer robbed Jarrett Mynear of a normal childhood when he was two years old, but it didn't steal his spirit. This extraordinary boy captivated crowds with his courage, faith, and humor in the face of adversity. Instead of feeling sorry for himself, Jarrett got busy. By delivering thousands of toys to sick children, the pint-sized Santa Claus traveled a path that led to national television appearances, prestigious awards, and a chance meeting with the President of the United States. This is the true story of a little boy's legacy and how, nearly two decades after his death, he continues to inspire small acts of kindness and huge acts of philanthropy. Book Review 1: “If you’re looking for inspiration, look no further.” -- Kentucky Living Magazine Book Review 2: “Marvin’s words will stay with you long after you finish reading these pages. Discover how you can bring more joy to the world.” -- Jessica Abo, Author, “Unfiltered: How To Be As Happy As You Look On Social Media”

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Gatekeeper Press

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1642375497

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Spirit of the Bluegrass

Strange, Surprising, and Sentimental Stories from Kentucky

By: Marvin Bartlett

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Spirit of the Bluegrass

Strange, Surprising, and Sentimental Stories from Kentucky

By: Marvin Bartlett

For thirty-five years, Emmy award-winning television journalist Marvin Bartlett has traveled the state, collecting stories that define The Spirit of the Bluegrass. If a story is odd, inspirational, educational, or nearly unbelievable, it is a perfect fit for the feature segments prepared for broadcast in Kentucky from border to border. Travel with Marvin to soak up that spirit found in people, places and things that are unique to the Bluegrass State.

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1493086790

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The Reception of Learned Law in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Frisia

By: Marvin Wiegand

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The Reception of Learned Law in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Frisia

By: Marvin Wiegand

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of medieval Frisian law, focusing on the influence of Roman and canon law in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It makes use of recent translations of Old Frisian legal texts to show the evolution of Frisian law and to unveil why the Frisians were motivated to change their traditional laws. The book covers everything from oaths as evidence in Frisian procedures, to whether Frisian widows could be guardians of their children, to the role the Frisians themselves played in the evolution of their legal system.

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BRILL

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9004712704

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9789004712706

Vertical Density Representation and Its Applications

By: Marvin Dean Troutt,Wan-Kai Pang,Shui-Hung Hou

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Vertical Density Representation and Its Applications

By: Marvin Dean Troutt,Wan-Kai Pang,Shui-Hung Hou

This book presents a new research topic in statistics ? verticaldensity representation (VDR). The theory of VDR has been found to beuseful for developing new ideas and methodologies in statistics andmanagement science. The first paper related to VDR appeared in1991. Several others have since been published and work is continuingon the topic. The purpose of this book is to survey the resultspresented in those papers and provide some new, unpublished results.VDR may be regarded as a special kind of transformation. By assumingthat a variate is uniformly distributed on the contours of a givenfunction in real n-dimensional space, and considering thedensity of the ordinate of the given function, the density of theoriginal variate can be represented. The book discusses basic resultsand extensions. In particular, the uniform assumption on contours isrelaxed to the general case. Applications are presented in Monte Carlosimulation, chaos-based uniform random number generation, and what may becalled behavioral estimation. In addition, the authors include a newresult in analyzing correlation into two separate components, whichprovides flexibility in modeling correlated phenomena, such as whencombining expert estimates.

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World Scientific

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9812562613

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The Occitan War

A Military and Political History of the Albigensian Crusade, 1209–1218

By: Laurence W. Marvin

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The Occitan War

A Military and Political History of the Albigensian Crusade, 1209–1218

By: Laurence W. Marvin

In 1209 Simon of Montfort led a war against the Cathars of Languedoc after Pope Innocent III preached a crusade condemning them as heretics. The suppression of heresy became a pretext for a vicious war that remains largely unstudied as a military conflict. Laurence Marvin here examines the Albigensian Crusade as military and political history rather than religious history and traces these dimensions of the conflict through to Montfort's death in 1218. He shows how Montfort experienced military success in spite of a hostile populace, impossible military targets, armies that dissolved every forty days, and a pope who often failed to support the crusade morally or financially. He also discusses the supposed brutality of the war, why the inhabitants were for so long unsuccessful at defending themselves against it, and its impact on Occitania. This original account will appeal to scholars of medieval France, the Crusades and medieval military history.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139470140

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The Trail Drivers of Texas

Interesting Sketches of Early Cowboys...

By: J. Marvin Hunter

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The Trail Drivers of Texas

Interesting Sketches of Early Cowboys...

By: J. Marvin Hunter

Portrays the courage and dedication of and the conditions met by the cattlemen who drove the herds out of Texas to distant markets

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University of Texas Press

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0292730764

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Linear Models

By: Shayle R. Searle,Marvin H. J. Gruber

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Linear Models

By: Shayle R. Searle,Marvin H. J. Gruber

Provides an easy-to-understand guide to statistical linear models and its uses in data analysis This book defines a broad spectrum of statistical linear models that is useful in the analysis of data. Considerable rewriting was done to make the book more reader friendly than the first edition. Linear Models, Second Edition is written in such a way as to be self-contained for a person with a background in basic statistics, calculus and linear algebra. The text includes numerous applied illustrations, numerical examples, and exercises, now augmented with computer outputs in SAS and R. Also new to this edition is: • A greatly improved internal design and format • A short introductory chapter to ease understanding of the order in which topics are taken up • Discussion of additional topics including multiple comparisons and shrinkage estimators • Enhanced discussions of generalized inverses, the MINQUE, Bayes and Maximum Likelihood estimators for estimating variance components Furthermore, in this edition, the second author adds many pedagogical elements throughout the book. These include numbered examples, end-of-example and end-of-proof symbols, selected hints and solutions to exercises available on the book’s website, and references to “big data” in everyday life. Featuring a thorough update, Linear Models, Second Edition includes: • A new internal format, additional instructional pedagogy, selected hints and solutions to exercises, and several more real-life applications • Many examples using SAS and R with timely data sets • Over 400 examples and exercises throughout the book to reinforce understanding Linear Models, Second Edition is a textbook and a reference for upper-level undergraduate and beginning graduate-level courses on linear models, statisticians, engineers, and scientists who use multiple regression or analysis of variance in their work. SHAYLE R. SEARLE, PhD, was Professor Emeritus of Biometry at Cornell University. He was the author of the first edition of Linear Models, Linear Models for Unbalanced Data, and Generalized, Linear, and Mixed Models (with Charles E. McCulloch), all from Wiley. The first edition of Linear Models appears in the Wiley Classics Library. MARVIN H. J. GRUBER, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at Rochester Institute of Technology, School of Mathematical Sciences. Dr. Gruber has written a number of papers and has given numerous presentations at professional meetings during his tenure as a professor at RIT. His fields of interest include regression estimators and the improvement of their efficiency using shrinkage estimators. He has written and published two books on this topic. Another of his books, Matrix Algebra for Linear Models, also published by Wiley, provides good preparation for studying Linear Models. He is a member of the American Mathematical Society, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118952855

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Distinguishing Clinical from Upper Level Management in Social Work

By: Marvin D. Feit

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Distinguishing Clinical from Upper Level Management in Social Work

By: Marvin D. Feit

Written by two experienced authors within social work education, this practical workbook presents the interrelated nature of decision-making, and provides a model for understanding what is required in the transition from clinician, to clinical and upper level management.

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Routledge

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0789025388

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Hunting Law and Ritual in Medieval English Literature

By: William Perry Marvin

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Hunting Law and Ritual in Medieval English Literature

By: William Perry Marvin

Study of hunting as it appears both in didactic texts, and epic and romance.

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DS Brewer

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1843840820

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The Russian Advance Towards Indian

By: Charles Thomas Marvin

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The Russian Advance Towards Indian

By: Charles Thomas Marvin

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385480841

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Central Ideas in the Development of American Journalism

A Narrative History

By: Marvin N. Olasky

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Central Ideas in the Development of American Journalism

A Narrative History

By: Marvin N. Olasky

Originally published in 1991. This fascinating book of journalism history outlines the author’s concepts of the three ‘central ideas’ in journalism which have evolved through time. The first is the Official Story, that which state authorities wanted people to know; the second, the Corruption Story, emphasised the abuse of authority by those in power and focused on a willingness to oppose the official and tell the specific detail; and the third, the Oppression Story, where journalists present the cause of events as down to external influences and work to change the social environment. The book narrates the history from its European beginnings in the 16th and 17th Centuries up to the early 20th Century, expressing how all interpretive journalism has a philosophic, world-view, component and understanding journalism history entails understanding these insights of the times.

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1317403371

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Innovations in Social Group Work

Feedback from Practice to Theory : Proceedings of the Annual Group Work Symposium

By: Marvin Parnes

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Innovations in Social Group Work

Feedback from Practice to Theory : Proceedings of the Annual Group Work Symposium

By: Marvin Parnes

This classic volume is a major contribution to the ongoing revitalization and growth of social work with groups. A variety of perspectives and practice problems in social group work are explored, selecting the direction in which work with groups is being channeled today. Social work educators and practitioners examine the new experiences that are demanding expansion of theory or its application, as well as the emerging new theory that might help practitioners in shaping their plans for work with clients in groups. The most current thinking in the field is illustrated by the well-balanced topics that are thoroughly addressed, including teaching/training, health settings, theory and technique, family issues, empowerment, research and organization, administration, and program development.

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Psychology Press

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0866565647

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Families and Law

By: Marvin B Sussman,Lisa J Mcintyre

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Families and Law

By: Marvin B Sussman,Lisa J Mcintyre

The family and the law, with its attendant legal systems, share a pervasive connectedness. With this new volume, family practitioners and scholars can begin to increase the family?s position in relation to the law and legal system. The contributing authors bring to light the power of laws and the ways to influence them,for the benefit of the family.

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Routledge

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1135068259

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Computer Applications in Mental Health

Education and Evaluation

By: Marvin Miller

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Computer Applications in Mental Health

Education and Evaluation

By: Marvin Miller

This practical book describes computer programs designed specifically for mental health clinicians and their work. It examines a variety of computer resources and some of the latest developments in the field. Computer Applications in Mental Health provides examples of computer programs that have proved helpful in private practice and institutional treatment settings. Among the programs discussed in the book are those that have succeeded or failed within the large Veterans Administration computer system; a system designed to help choose the best reinforcers to use with patients in a behavioral program; a computerized self-administered screening battery in use in community health center settings; patient education programs useful in caring for the chronic mentally ill; and a reminder system for helping the hospital-based clinician meet paperwork deadlines. Encouraging mental health professionals to investigate the types of computer technology available to them, this book also stimulates further development and sharing of computer software. To enable readers to seek out more information on certain systems and programs, this book lists many computer resources. Several of the software packages evaluated are available on computerized bulletin board systems at no cost beyond that of a long distance phone call. Although Computer Applications in Mental Health is primarily for mental health clinicians, administrators and computer programmers within mental health settings can also find useful information in this book.

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1317756924

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Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

Founding Father

By: Marvin R. Zahniser

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Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

Founding Father

By: Marvin R. Zahniser

Pinckney's lifetime as a leading member of the southern oligarchy is important to an understanding of that group's assumptions about itself, its aspirations, and its exacting standards of public and private conduct for its leaders. It also provides insight into the development of the Federalist and Republican parties in the South and vividly demonstrates the effects of the national party system on the old regime of state politics in South Carolina. Originally published in 1967. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

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0807839612

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9780807839614

The Racing Game

By: Marvin Scott

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The Racing Game

By: Marvin Scott

This study of a unique social world probes beneath the thrill and spectacle of horse racing into the lives of the "honest boys," the "gyps," the "manipulators," the "stoops," and the "Chalk eaters"--the constituents of race track society and the players of the racing game. With scientific precision and journalistic vigor, Scott describes the everyday activities--the objectives and strategies--of those whose lives are organized around track proceedings and who compete with chance and one another. The players in the racing game range from track owners to stable boys, from law enforcers to lawbreakers, and from casual sportsmen to pathologically addicted gamblers. Considering the self-interests, the normative and operational codes, and the interactional relationships among the major types and subtypes of participants, the author defines the components of strategic movement within the framework of rules and resources to show how a player's relations to the "means of production" governs his behavior. The fruitful application of sociological theory and method to an unusually interesting social context makes this particularly useful still for courses in social problems and the sociology of organizations and of leisure.

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1351302949

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New Principles of War

Enduring Truths with Timeless Examples

By: Marvin Pokrant

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New Principles of War

Enduring Truths with Timeless Examples

By: Marvin Pokrant

Influenced in part by the writings of Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, Henri Jomini, and other strategists, most major militaries have adopted principles of war that are widely promulgated. Marvin Pokrant argues that these commonly accepted principles fail to reflect the ideas that led to them. Looking at the fundamental and enduring concepts behind the original principles of war, Pokrant presents nine new principles of war. To illustrate his points Pokrant uses numerous examples drawn from military history, including land, sea, and air warfare from ancient times to the present. By analyzing and reforming the principles of war, Pokrant provides a modern, relevant, and useful way to guide decisions made in times of war.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1640124616

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9781640124615

Stepfamilies

History, Research, and Policy

By: Marvin B Sussman

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Stepfamilies

History, Research, and Policy

By: Marvin B Sussman

Stepfamilies: History, Research, and Policy examines language use, laws, cultural stereotypes, media images, and social policies and practices to create an understanding of how predominant views about stepfamilies and stepfamily members are constructed within society. As the rates of divorce and remarriage continue to increase, it is more important than ever to overcome nuclear family ideology and abandon the model of research that compares stepfamilies with nonstepfamilies. This book shows you how honor and empowerment can be attained in new family structures and how alternative kin networks can be just as healthy as the traditional nuclear family unit.As this book examines the ability of different societies to integrate different family forms into mainstream notions of “family,” you will realize the damaging effects of treating stepfamilies as incomplete, undesirable institutions. In fact, Stepfamilies: History, Research, and Policy will challenge your notions of family over and over again, as it discusses: key relationships in stepfamilies stepfather involvement in parenting after remarriage meaning of gender in a stepfamily differences in “investment” between biological and nonbiological parents demographic change and significant shifts in the social and cultural implications of stepfamilies attempting to reconstruct a household like that of a previous marriage the impact of stereotypes on the internal dynamics of stepfamilies and on the interactions of stepfamilies with outsiders the absence of guidelines and cultural norms for role performance and problem solving in stepfamiliesStepfamilies: History, Research, and Policy discusses both the difficulties of forming new families and households as well as the factors that promote family cohesiveness and integration in stepfamilies. From stereotypes of stepmothers to ambiguous legal relationships to child maltreatment in stepfamilies to sibling relations, there isn’t much that the penetrating lens of this book leaves uncovered.

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1317790669

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Hanging Ruth Blay

An Eighteenth-Century New Hampshire Tragedy

By: Carolyn Marvin

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Hanging Ruth Blay

An Eighteenth-Century New Hampshire Tragedy

By: Carolyn Marvin

The true story of a woman hanged in colonial Portsmouth for burying her stillborn out-of-wedlock baby. On a cold December morning in 1768, thirty-one-year-old Ruth Blay approached the gallows for her execution. Standing on the high ground in the northwest corner of what is now Portsmouth’s old South Cemetery, she would have had a clear view across the pasture to the harbor and open sea. The eighteenth-century hanging of a schoolteacher for concealing the birth of a child out of wedlock has appeared in local legend over the last few centuries, but the full account of Ruth’s story has never been told. Drawing on over two years of investigative research, author Carolyn Marvin brings to light the dramatic details of Ruth’s life and the cruel injustice of colonial Portsmouth’s moral code. As Marvin uncovers the real flesh-and-blood woman who suffered the ultimate punishment, her readers come to understand Ruth as an individual and a woman of her time.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1614234256

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Collective Violence

By: James F., Jr. Short,Marvin E. Wolfgang

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Collective Violence

By: James F., Jr. Short,Marvin E. Wolfgang

Collective violence has played an important role throughout American history, though we have typically denied it. But it is not enough to repress violence or to suppress our knowledge of it. We must understand the phenomenon, and to do this, we must learn what violent groups are trying to say. Th at some choose violence tells us something about the perpetrators, inevitably, about ourselves and the society we have built.

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Routledge

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1351527738

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International Higher Education Hubs in the Global Education Industry

By: Marvin Erfurth

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International Higher Education Hubs in the Global Education Industry

By: Marvin Erfurth

Education hubs are a recent phenomenon in higher education systems of predominantly Asian countries to innovate local systems through the expertise of foreign actors, particularly from English-speaking countries. To understand some of the phenomenon's implications on international higher education, this empirical study compares attempts to create education hubs in Singapore and the United Arab Emirates. First, the book explores the analytical potential of current approaches to study the phenomenon, and second, it investigates how education hubs change policy and governance in the higher education systems of Singapore and the United Arab Emirates. The book sheds light on how education hubs lead to the involvement of Global Education Industry actors in local systems and how the phenomenon creates new dynamics for policy making and research. Marvin Erfurth ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Arbeitsschwerpunkte: Internationale und Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft, Internationale Bildungspolitik, Hochschulforschung, Bildungsökonomie.

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3830995474

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