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• Ripoff 101: How the Publishing Industry's Practices Needlessly Drive Up Textbook Costs (second edition, 2005), by Kate Rube, contrib. by Merriah Fairchild (PDF with commentary at maketextbooksaffordable.org)
• Ripoff 101: How the Current Practices of the Textbook Industry Drive Up the Cost of College Textbooks (2004), by Merriah Fairchild (PDF at Michigan)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• History of American Schoolbooks (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c1963), by Charles H. Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American Way of Publishing: Your Safeguard Against Subversion in Textbooks (ca. 1956), by American Textbook Publishers Institute (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Consumer's Guide to High School History Textbooks (Washington, DC: Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2004), by Diane Ravitch (PDF with commentary at edexcellence.net)
• School Books and Racial Antagonism: A Study of Omissions and Inclusions That Make for Misunderstanding (third edition; Atlanta: Executive Committee, Conference on Education and Race Relations, 1937), by Robert B. Eleazer (page images at HathiTrust)
• School Books and Racial Antagonism: A Study of Omissions and Inclusions That Make for Misunderstanding (first edition; Atlanta: Executive Committee, Conference on Education and Race Relations, 1935), by Robert B. Eleazer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Poisoned Loving-Cup: United States School Histories Falsified Through Pro-British Propaganda in Sweet Name of Amity (Chicago: National Historical Society, 1928), by Charles Grant Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Treason to American Tradition: The Spirit of Benedict Arnold Reincarnated in United States History Revised in Text Books (Los Angeles: Sons of the Revolution in the State of California, c1922), by Charles Grant Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Attacks on the Freedom to Learn (1996), by People for the American Way (HTML at archive.org)

• Old Textbooks: Spelling, Grammar, Reading, Arithmetic, Geography, American History, Civil Government, Physiology, Penmanship, Art, Music, As Taught in the Common Schools From Colonial Days to 1900 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1961), by John A. Nietz (page images at Pitt)
• Yesterday's School Books: A Looking Glass for Teachers of Today (Watkins Glen, NY: Century House, c1960), by Ruth S. Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Schoolbook Nation: Conflicts Over American History Textbooks From the Civil War to the Present (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004), by Joseph Moreau (page images at HathiTrust)

• Anti-Negro Propaganda in School Textbooks (1939), by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• School Books and Racial Antagonism: A Study of Omissions and Inclusions That Make for Misunderstanding (third edition; Atlanta: Executive Committee, Conference on Education and Race Relations, 1937), by Robert B. Eleazer (page images at HathiTrust)
• School Books and Racial Antagonism: A Study of Omissions and Inclusions That Make for Misunderstanding (first edition; Atlanta: Executive Committee, Conference on Education and Race Relations, 1935), by Robert B. Eleazer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Camps and Firesides of the Revolution, ed. by Albert Bushnell Hart and Mabel Hill (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• Colonial Children, ed. by Albert Bushnell Hart and Blanche Evans Hazard (illustrated HTML at Virginia)

• Serials Control and Deselection Projects (SPEC Kit #147; 1988), ed. by Association of Research Libraries Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Cost Effectiveness of Carbon Monoxide Control Strategies (Chicago: Illinois Institute for Environmental Quality, 1973), by Jay E. Norco (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Remotely Sensed Data From Space: Distribution, Pricing, and Applications (Washington, DC: U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, International Security and Commerce Program, 1992), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF at unt.edu)

• Investing in Our Children: What We Know and Don't Know About the Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Interventions, by Lynn A. Karoly, Peter W. Greenwood, Susan S. Everingham, Jill Houbeé, M. Rebecca Kilburn, C. Peter Rydell, Matthew Sanders, and James Chiesa (PDF files at rand.org)

• The Economic Costs and Implications of High-Technology Hardware Theft (c1999), by James N. Dertouzos, Eric V. Larson, and Patricia A. Ebener (PDF files at rand.org)

• The Economic Costs and Implications of High-Technology Hardware Theft (c1999), by James N. Dertouzos, Eric V. Larson, and Patricia A. Ebener (PDF files at rand.org)

• Medical Technology and Costs of the Medicare Program (OTA-H-227; 1984), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton
  • PDF at unt.edu

• The Impact of AIDS on the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program (Northern California Region) (Washington: Office of Technology Assessment, 1988), by Kaiser-Permanente Medical Care Program, Northern California Region
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• International Comparisons of Administrative Costs in Health Care (Washington: GPO, 1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• International Comparisons of Administrative Costs in Health Care (Washington: GPO, 1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• International Comparisons of Administrative Costs in Health Care (Washington: GPO, 1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• The Economic Costs and Implications of High-Technology Hardware Theft (c1999), by James N. Dertouzos, Eric V. Larson, and Patricia A. Ebener (PDF files at rand.org)

• Local Fiscal Effects of Illegal Immigration: Report of a Workshop (1996), ed. by Barry Edmonston and Ronald Demos Lee (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Outpatient Immunosuppressive Drugs Under Medicare (OTA-H-452; 1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada (c2010), by Bob Barnetson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Effects of Federal Policies on Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Affordable Spacecraft: Design and Launch Alternatives (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Debts, Job Choices, and Financial Burden: Educational Debts at Nine American Law Schools (Washington: Association of American Law Schools, 1991), by David L. Chambers (PDF with commentary at Michigan)

• Medical Technology and Costs of the Medicare Program (OTA-H-227; 1984), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton
  • PDF at unt.edu

• Medical Technology and Costs of the Medicare Program (OTA-H-227; 1984), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton
  • PDF at unt.edu

• Recombinant Erythropoietin: Payment Options for Medicare (OTA-H-451; 1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Payment for Physician Services: Strategies for Medicare (OTA-H-294; 1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Prices, Markets, and the Pharmaceutical Revolution (Washington: AEI Press, 2000), by John E. Calfee (PDF at AEI)
• Medical Technology and Costs of the Medicare Program (OTA-H-227; 1984), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton
  • PDF at unt.edu

• Reducing the Costs of Collecting Meteorological Data: A Workshop Summary (OTA-BP-ISS-152; 1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • PDF at unt.edu
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Neonatal Intensive Care for Low Birthweight Infants: Costs and Effectiveness (OTA-HCS-38; 1987), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • PDF at unt.edu
  • PDF at ed.gov

• Local Fiscal Effects of Illegal Immigration: Report of a Workshop (1996), ed. by Barry Edmonston and Ronald Demos Lee (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada (c2010), by Bob Barnetson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Paid Care in Australia: Politics, Profits, Practices (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2009), ed. by Debra King and Gabrielle Meagher (HTML and PDF with commentary at Sydney University Press)

• Pay Now or Pay Later: Controlling Cost of Ownership from Design Throughout the Service Life of Public Buildings (1991), by National Research Council Building Research Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Remotely Sensed Data From Space: Distribution, Pricing, and Applications (Washington, DC: U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, International Security and Commerce Program, 1992), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF at unt.edu)

• Affordable Spacecraft: Design and Launch Alternatives (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Outpatient Immunosuppressive Drugs Under Medicare (OTA-H-452; 1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

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