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Hardcover:

9781138133921 | Routledge, October 29, 2015, cover price $165.00

By Richard Mitchell (editor)

Hardcover:

9780123864567 | Academic Pr, August 1, 2014, cover price $3360.00

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Product Description: “Praised by critics across the nation, The Graves of Academe is Richard Mitchell's angry and brilliant tour through America's bloated public school system - whose mangled, self-serving language and policies would make Orwell wince...read more

Paperback:

9781495969980 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 16, 2014, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: “Praised by critics across the nation, The Graves of Academe is Richard Mitchell's angry and brilliant tour through America's bloated public school system - whose mangled, self-serving language and policies would make Orwell wince.

Paperback:

9781495958656 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 15, 2014, cover price $7.95

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Product Description: Taken from the Robbins text and Klatt’s own extensive collection, these 350 brilliantly illustrated flash cards present gross, photomicrographic, and radiologic images that allow you to test yourself on key pathologic information, facts, and functions...read more

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9781416049296 | Flc crds/p edition (W B Saunders Co, July 28, 2009), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Taken from the Robbins text and Klatt’s own extensive collection, these 350 brilliantly illustrated flash cards present gross, photomicrographic, and radiologic images that allow you to test yourself on key pathologic information, facts, and functions.

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By Laila Gibson (contributor), C. Michael Hall (contributor), Paul Lynch (contributor), Ewen J. Michael and Richard Mitchell (contributor)

Hardcover:

9780080450964 | Routledge, December 28, 2006, cover price $115.00

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Product Description: This lively, colourful and innovative pack has been designed specifically for use as a teaching aid and learning resource for students of geography, sociology, social policy and related social science disciplines. With new evidence about the nature of social and geographical divisions in British society, it is also an invaluable resource for policy makers and local authority professionals in areas such as planning, education, housing, poverty and social exclusion...read more

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9781861347732 | Pck edition (Policy Pr, November 1, 2005), cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This lively, colourful and innovative pack has been designed specifically for use as a teaching aid and learning resource for students of geography, sociology, social policy and related social science disciplines.

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Product Description: It is possible, Sagan says, to damage the brain in precisely such a way that the victim will lose the ability to understand the passive or to devise prepositional phrases or something like that. No cases are cited, unfortunately--it would be fun to chat with some victim--but the whole idea is attractive, because if it were true it would explain many things...read more

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9781419129728 | Kessinger Pub Co, June 30, 2004, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: It is possible, Sagan says, to damage the brain in precisely such a way that the victim will lose the ability to understand the passive or to devise prepositional phrases or something like that.
9781888173673 | Reissue edition (Akadine Pr, June 1, 1999), cover price $15.95
9780316575072 | Little Brown & Co, October 1, 1981, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: In a witty but sobering attack on the misuse of language, emphasizing the importance of correctly structured language as the only vehicle of logical thought, Mitchell traces the cause of our current linguistic malaise to the American educational system

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Product Description: The illuminating spirit, or evil genius, of modern educationism was Wilhelm Max Wundt, a Hegelian psychologist who established the world's first laboratory for psychological experimentation at the University of Leipzig, where he worked and taught from 1875 to 1920...read more

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9781419164521 | Kessinger Pub Co, June 30, 2004, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: The illuminating spirit, or evil genius, of modern educationism was Wilhelm Max Wundt, a Hegelian psychologist who established the world's first laboratory for psychological experimentation at the University of Leipzig, where he worked and taught from 1875 to 1920.
9781888173925 | Reissue edition (Akadine Pr, June 1, 1999), cover price $15.95
9780671639372 | Reprint edition (Fireside, August 1, 1987), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: In an indictment of American public education, Mitchell points to the theory of education as behavior modification and to the decision, made by the education establishment, to emphasize good citizenship at the expense of the traditional curriculum

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Product Description: I have habitually imagined - guessed'' might be the more honest word - that Reason is high, very high, a lofty and distant realm where matters of the greatest import'' dwell, and where mighty minds move among them. And accordingly, I have supposed Unreason, a complete irrationality, as low as Reason is high, the very pit, the abyss, the frozen floor of hell...read more

Hardcover:

9780671643270 | Fireside, August 1, 1987, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss Socrates, reason, thinking, self-knowledge, intelligence, education, the imagination, morality, and fear.

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9781419163753 | Kessinger Pub Co, June 30, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: I have habitually imagined - guessed'' might be the more honest word - that Reason is high, very high, a lofty and distant realm where matters of the greatest import'' dwell, and where mighty minds move among them.
9781888173949 | Reissue edition (Akadine Pr, June 1, 1999), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Twenty-odd years ago, Richard Mitchell, a professor at New Jersey’s Glassboro State College, set out on a quixotic pursuit: the rescue of the English language and the minds of those attached to the world by it.

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Product Description: This edited collection examines the labour laws of seven industrializing East Asian societies - China, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines and Vietnam - and discusses the variation in their impact across the whole region...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Sean Cooney (editor), Tim Lindsey (editor), Richard Mitchell (editor) and Ying Zhu (editor)

Hardcover:

9780415221689 | Routledge, September 1, 2002, cover price $195.00 | About this edition: This edited collection examines the labour laws of seven industrializing East Asian societies - China, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines and Vietnam - and discusses the variation in their impact across the whole region.

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Product Description: Health, Place and Society is a groundbreaking text covering both the main issues in medical geography, and also overlapping with key issues in medical sociology. The approach focuses on the empirical, outlining the main research questions in medical geography, addressing how these can be investigated (covering both concepts and measurements) and then reviewing what is known about the issue...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Paperback:

9780130164551 | Prentice Hall, October 1, 2001, cover price $72.50 | About this edition: Health, Place and Society is a groundbreaking text covering both the main issues in medical geography, and also overlapping with key issues in medical sociology.

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Product Description: Design by Contract is a systematic approach to specifying and implementing object-oriented software elements based on precisely defined obligations between them. This is the first practical, example-centered guide to using Design by Contract...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780201634600 | Prentice Hall, October 1, 2001, cover price $49.99 | About this edition: Design by Contract is a systematic approach to specifying and implementing object-oriented software elements based on precisely defined obligations between them.

Product Description: This follow up report to Death in Britain (Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 1997) - a study of changes in death inequalities from the 1950s to the 1990s - contains further evidence of the widening geographical gap in mortality in Britain, but shows how this gap might be narrowed through social and economic policies...read more

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9781861342348 | Policy Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: This follow up report to Death in Britain (Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 1997) - a study of changes in death inequalities from the 1950s to the 1990s - contains further evidence of the widening geographical gap in mortality in Britain, but shows how this gap might be narrowed through social and economic policies.

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Product Description: Twenty-odd years ago, Richard Mitchell, a professor at New Jersey’s Glassboro State College, set out on a quixotic pursuit: the rescue of the English language and the minds of those attached to the world by it. Donning cape and mask as “The Underground Grammarian,” Mitchell sallied forth upon his newsletter against the nonsense being spoken, written, and, indeed, encouraged by the educational establishment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Paperback:

9781585790036 | Reissue edition (Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, March 1, 2000), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Twenty-odd years ago, Richard Mitchell, a professor at New Jersey’s Glassboro State College, set out on a quixotic pursuit: the rescue of the English language and the minds of those attached to the world by it.

Hardcover:

9780455211367 | 2 edition (Wm Gaunt & Sons, December 1, 1993), cover price $165.00

Paperback:

9780455211374 | 2 edition (Wm Gaunt & Sons, December 1, 1993), cover price $125.00

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Product Description: State compulsory arbitration of industrial disputes is a crucial aspect of the Australian political economy, yet has remained a source of controversy and debate. This collection of fifteen essays brings a fresh approach to issues surrounding the introduction of arbitration, examining the major constituent elements of the Australian system, the source of its ideas, the key protagonists in the system's introduction, and the effects of compulsory arbitration on industrial relations, management control, and trade unions...read more

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9780195549966 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 1, 1990, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: State compulsory arbitration of industrial disputes is a crucial aspect of the Australian political economy, yet has remained a source of controversy and debate.

A collection of satirical essays targets the shortcomings and fads that continue to plague our language

Paperback:

9780671639266 | Reprint edition (Fireside, August 1, 1987), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A collection of satirical essays targets the shortcomings and fads that continue to plague our language

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Looking at theory and research, this book focuses on the practicalities of wine marketing, and outlines the major issues involved in the production and marketing of wine. Each chapter includes the following features: 'How to' and 'how not to' case studies; a guide to further reading and websites; and 'Issues to consider when marketing' section.

Paperback:

9780750654203 | Routledge, October 30, 2007, cover price $63.95 | About this edition: Looking at theory and research, this book focuses on the practicalities of wine marketing, and outlines the major issues involved in the production and marketing of wine.

Miscellaneous:

9780080553283 | Butterworth-Heinemann, June 30, 1905, cover price $44.95

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