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In viewing the borders and boundaries that exist between human settlement and the natural environment, Laurie Brown takes us on a modern journey on a well-worn path in human history: the pushing out of the city, initially beyond city walls of ancient Rome and then medieval Europe and today beyond political boundaries into the undeveloped frontier.

Twice the size of Central Park, Rock Creek Park is the wild, wooded heart of Washington, DC. Melanie Choukas-Bradley, naturalist and writer, spent a year in Rock Creek Park walking and skiing its trails, observing and recording natural events in all seasons and weather conditions. Enhanced by the evocative photographs of Susan Austin Roth, A Year in Rock Creek Park takes readers on an incredible and unforgettable journey.

A presentation of contemporary photos taken by the author, paired with diary entries written by his grandfather, a soldier in the US Army during WWI.

A collection of photographs exploring what Ohio's reputation as a shorthand for everyday American normalcy speaks of in the broader American dynamic today, through a series of revealing, surprising, humorous and indicative shots of commercial and residential landscapes across the state.

An important and strikingly beautiful book about the sacred Hindu practice of threshold drawing!In the Hindu world-view, threshold is a profoundly important concept that represents a passage between one space and place and another, creating a visual bridge between the secular and the sacred. Accordingly, the literal threshold a person crosses when entering and exiting a home or business symbolizes the threshold one crosses between the physical...

Jack Parsons has been investigating the incredible landscapes, amazing light, and diverse cultures of the American Southwest for more than thirty-five years, in turn becoming a master of photographic art. He has been the photographer for fifteen acclaimed books, including the seminal 1993 publication of Santa Fe Style, which helped to chronicle and establish a regional aesthetic for New Mexico's architecture that is now recognized worldwide.In...

Winner of the J. B. Jackson Prize for the Best Book in Cultural Geography!

For more than 65, 000, 000 years, the alligator has inhabited the North American continent. One of the few remaining links to the age of the dinosaur, these ancient reptiles move gracefully through the water but are relatively awkward on land (though they can charge aggressively if threatened). In so many ways, the alligator embodies all that is truly wild in the world. Renowned photographer Martha Strawn, the founder of "visual ecology, " spe...

Although women were not officially permitted to practice law in Maryland until 1902, the history of women acting as lawyers in Maryland is storied, going back to the earliest decades of colonial America. Finding Justice tells the remarkable story of how women overcame historical obstacles to enter the legal profession and how their pioneering work has influenced the practice of law and society at large.

How does a photographer learn to see? How does he create his own visual language¿as unique as a fingerprint and as inimitable as the voice of a great writer?In Iluminaciones, Jack Parsons's seventeenth book, he takes the viewer on a very personal, deeply intuitive journey that reveals how he has honed his photographic vision. The answer is subtle¿and remarkable: It is by growing into his own photographs. Here he shares with us ninety-one of hi...

Rock Creek Park is Nature's gem in Washington, DC. Twice the size of famed Central Park in New York City, Rock Creek Park is the wild, wooded heart of the nation's capital, offering refuge and a keen sense of place for millions of residents and visitors each year. Rock Creek Valley serves as the spine of the national park. Its history is long and storied, from native Indian tribes who fished the creek, hunted the woods, and quarried the rock o...

In 1971, Madison College was a small-town teachers college with around 3, 000 students. New president Dr. Ronald E. Carrier sought to build a solid men's collegiate athletic programme and hired a young, ambitious, untested basketball coach from New Jersey - Lou Campanelli. Dare to Dream tells the Hoosiers-like story of how Campanelli created a basketball programme out of almost nothing, building it into a powerhouse.

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Nominated for the 2016 IPPY Award in both the Photography and Current Events categories.Memento Mori: Testament to Life is a poignant tribute to the victims of Colombia¿s armed conflict that has claimed more than 250, 000 people during the last fifty years. The book is presented as four bodies of photographic work in a two-volume, bi-lingual edition: English and Spanish.The first volume includes hauntingly beautiful images of Diettes¿s photogr...

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The East Coast of North America is a wondrous, intriguing, yet threatened coastline. It zigs and zags for more than 5, 500 miles and assumes a multifaceted, jigsaw shape from the Arctic Circle and Greenland across the Canadian Maritimes, then southward into Maine, Cape Cod, New York Harbor, the Delaware and Chesapeake Bays, along the Outer Banks to Charleston Harbor and on to Cape Canaveral. It ends at the Dry Tortugas on the western tip of th...

America¿s Endangered Coasts: Photographs from Texas to Maine is a pioneering and thought-provoking photographic survey of coastal areas of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States that are already threatened by a rising sea. Using a topographic aesthetic that combines straightforward, highly detailed color photographs with GPS locations and elevations above sea level for each site, this book photographically responds to low-lying area...

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From 1951 to 1969, John Brinckerhoff Jackson founded, edited, and published Landscape, a magazine that changed the way scholars, writers, teachers, designers, planners, and artists came to understand the everyday places that surround us. Including original essays by those who not only knew him best but who have carried his torch to new heights in their own respective work, this book sheds valuable light on Jackson's life and oeuvre.