The Racket: How Abortion Became Legal in Australia [PB] Available
Gideon Haigh
A generation ago in Australia, abortion was a crime. It was also the basis of one of the country's most lucrative and longest-lasting criminal rackets.

Radical Students: The Old Left at Sydney University [HB] Available
Alan Barcan
Radical Students will stir the blood of those who were there, and make stimulating reading for those Australians who care about education, politics and liberal thought.

The Railways of Victoria 1854-2004: 150th Anniversary [PB] Available
Robert Lee
Victoria was the first Australian colony to open a steam railway, in 1854, and for the rest of the nineteenth century it remained the continent's most advanced and intensive railway.

Ray Parkin On A POW's Survival, MUP Masterworks #2 [PB] Available
Ray Parkin
At risk of death, prisoner of war Ray Parkin secretly kept a journal of the months in 1943-44 he spent working on the Thai-Burma Railway.
MUP Masterworks

Ray Parkin's Wartime Trilogy: Out of the Smoke; Into the Smother; The Sword and the Blossom, Paperback Edition [PB] Available
Ray Parkin
Ray Parkin's famous trilogy of wartime experience is published here for the first time in a single paperback volume.

Reading Race: Aboriginality in Australian Children's Literature [PB] Available
Clare Bradford
Awards: Winner of Children's Literature Association Book Award, US
International Research Society of Children's Literature (IRSCL) Award 2003
Reading Race looks at the changing ways in which Australia's indigenous peoples have been--and continue to be--represented in books for children.

Reading the Garden, formerly Gardening Nation [PB] Available
Katie Holmes, Susan K. Martin & Kylie Mirmohamadi
Reading the Garden explores our deep affection for gardens and gardening and illuminates their numerous meanings and uses.

Readings/Writings [HB] Available
Greg Dening
Greg Dening has prepared a collection of wonderfully accessible reflections on the meaning and significance of the acts of reading and writing.

Redmond Barry: An Anglo-Irish Australian [HB] Available
Ann Galbally
New biography of Sir Redmond Barry--founding father of many of Melbourne's major institutions.

Reforming Australia: New Policies for a New Generation [PB] Available
Peter Dawkins and Mike Steketee (eds)
An exploration of the new thinking behind the development of policies for a new generation of Australians.

Reframing Darwin: Evolution and Art in Australia [PB] Available
Jeanette Hoorn (ed.)
Reframing Darwin: Evolution and Art in Australia explores the impact of the Darwinian revolution on Australian arts and sciences.
Miegunyah

Relearning to E-learn: Strategies for Electronic Learning and Knowledge [PB] Available
M. S. Bowles
Relearning to E-Learn is for e-learning practitioners at all levels. It provides a credible, comprehensive look at where e-learning is today, at all the elements that affect it and the potential it holds for future learning.

Relearning to E-learn: Strategies for Electronic Learning and Knowledge, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
M. S. Bowles
Relearning to E-Learn is for e-learning practitioners at all levels. It provides a credible, comprehensive look at where e-learning is today, at all the elements that affect it and the potential it holds for future learning.
Academic Monograph

A Remarkable Friendship: Vincent Van Gogh and John Peter Russell [HB] Available
Ann Galbally
Ann Galbally traces the passage of the extraordinary and unlikely friendship between Vincent Van Gogh and John Peter Russell.
Miegunyah

Remembered Gardens: Eight Women and their Visions of an Australian Landscape [HB] Available
Holly Kerr Forsyth
'There I saw the first olive tree ever planted in Australia; the Cork-tree in luxuriance; the Caper growing among rocks, the English Oak, the horse chestnut, broom, magnificent mulberry trees of thirty-five years growth, umbrageous and green, great variety of roses in hedges, also climbing roses.'
Miegunyah

Remembered Gardens (PB): Eight Women and their Visions of an Australian Landscape [PB] Available
Holly Kerr Forsyth
Remembered Gardens is the story of eight women whose passions for garden-making have shaped our relationship with the Australian landscape.

Renegades and Rats: Betrayal and the Remaking of Radical Organisations in Britain and Australia, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Jacqueline Dickenson
Renegades and Rats traces betrayal in the labour movements of Britain and Australia through the careers of activists as diverse as H. H. Champion, W. A. Trenwith, John Burns and Adela Pankhurst Walsh.
Academic Monograph

Renegades and Rats: Betrayal and the remaking of radical organisations in Britain and Australia, 1840-1940, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Jacqueline Dickenson
Accusations of betrayal played a significant role in the shaping and maintenance of solidarity in socialist and other modern radical political organisations in Australia and Britain.
Academic Monograph

Reshaping Life: Key Issues in Genetic Engineering, Third edition [PB] Available
G. J. V. Nossal and Ross L. Coppel
How far should scientists go in exploring the secrets of life? The questions are complex and increasingly urgent. This thoroughly updated new edition is essential reading.

Restoring the Land: Environmental Values, Knowledge and Action [PB] Available
Edited by Laurie Cosgrove, David G. Evans and David Yencken
A multidisciplinary look at environmental issues.

Retail Pricing Strategies and Market Power [PB] Available
Gordon Mills
An important contribution to bridge-building between economics and marketing, and provides real insights into pricing behaviour and practices.

Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis [PB] Available
George Makari
An award-winning scholar delivers a definitive, radically new history of Freud, his disciples, and the tumultuous history of psychoanalysis.

Righteous Violence: The ethics and politics of military intervention [PB] Available
Tony Coady and Michael O'Keefe (eds)
This topical book asks whether it is ethical to intervene militarily in humanitarian crises, particularly when they occur in nation states alienated from the international community.

The River: A Journey through the Murray-Darling Basin [PB] Available
Chris Hammer
The River looks past the daily news reports and their sterile statistics, revealing the true impact of our rivers' decline.

Robert Menzies' Forgotten People, Second edition [PB] Available
Judith Brett
Awards: 1993 Ernest Scott prize
1993 Victorian Premier's Prize for Australian Studies
Joint winner of the 1993 NSW Premier's Prize for Nonfiction
The new edition of Judith Brett's award-winning book, providing compelling insight into Menzies and his era.

Robin Boyd: A Life [PB] Available
Geoffrey Serle
Awards: The Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award 1996
Highly-acclaimed biography of Robin Boyd, gifted architect, writer, teacher and social commentator. Beautifully designed in full colour with wrap-around paperback jacket.

Rocky & Gawenda: The story of a man and his mutt [PB] Available
Michael Gawenda
Rocky & Gawenda is a celebration of the love that developed between a dog and his human friend.

Running the Show: B.A. Santamaria Selected Documents: 1939-1996 [HB] Available
Patrick Morgan (ed.)
Running the Show reveals new material on matters which are still the subject of controversy today.
Miegunyah

Rural Australia and the Great War: From Tarrawingee to Tangambalanga [PB] Available
John McQuilton
Conscription debates, recruiting, fund-raising, homecoming, and design of the war memorial -- as experienced across North Eastern Victoria.

The Rush That Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining, New Edition [PB] Available
Geoffrey Blainey
This classic history of Australian mining now appears in its fifth edition, updated to bring the story up to the twenty-first century.