Thomas Mann's Los Angeles is an illustrated book that explores Nobel-prizewinning author Thomas M...
The Sunset Strip, circa 1967. Buffalo Springfield called it right: 'There's something happening h...
Los Angeles lives largest in the world's imagination. It can be a projection, a solution, a tempo...
Judson: Innovation in Stained Glass by David Judson and Steffie Nelson is a history of the world-...
The fascinating story of people and mid-century modern architecture, merging and prevailing to cr...
Mabel and Me is a novel about the Movies--a sharply observed, historically accurate, deliciously ...
Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films presents an intimate look at the Chinese...
Architect John Parkinson died in 1935, and the Los Angeles Times praised him: 'Future generations...
In Kathy Fiscus: A Tragedy that Transfixed the Nation historian William Deverell tells the heartb...
Best-selling author and beloved chronicler of Los Angeles D.J. Waldie reconsiders the city in a c...
Twentynine Palms is a compelling account of the devastating murder of two young girls by a troubl...
Of all the Mexican land grant ranchos in California, only Rancho Boca de Santa Monica and Rancho ...
Prohibition. Mobsters, murder, and mayhem. FBI agents. Cops, robbers, and worse. Sound like the b...
We know Woody Guthrie as the role model for Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, as the bard of Green...
City Hall is everything imagined by its early-20th century civic leaders: a structure that speaks...
Los Angeles--The autograph is the premise for a dream: maybe, just maybe, the autograph hunter wi...
Los Angeles Union Station-opened on May 7, 1939, after days of celebration-was the last great tra...
With more than 250 photographs and rare ephemera, all collected by author Tom Zimmerman, Paradise...
Sacred Material details the historic saga of the creation of The Communion of Saints, The Baptism...
Wilshire Boulevard is the unofficial Main Street of dreams that flows through Los Angeles history...
Ken Bernstein, a Principal City Planner for the City of Los Angeles and a national advocate for h...
Bunker Hill is the highest point of downtown Los Angeles, both literally and figuratively. Its ci...
CORITA KENT. ART AND SOUL. THE BIOGRAPHY. is the painstakingly researched account of one of Ameri...
The Santa Monica Mountains is the only range that transverses a major metropolitan city in North ...
Take a spin down Paseo Cerveza or Alameda de las Pulgas and soak in the golden California sun. Bu...
When Frank Gehry makes a new building--that's architectural history! And when Gary Leonard gets o...
What? Los Angeles was the original wine country of California, leading the state's wine productio...
On December 22, 2013, the world-famous Hollywood Park Race Track closed its doors forever. In 201...
The Chicano Civil Rights Movement (El Movimiento) of the 1960s and 1970s protested the social, po...
Cloaked in mystery and until modern times available only to the elite, the orange has been known ...
How did Los Angeles become the modern city the world watches? We know some of the answers all too...
The complex and often alarming history of the Los Angeles city sewer system is captured for the f...
Where We Are Now: Notes from Los Angeles is the second book by D.J. Waldie, one of the most gifte...
A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler offers a blueprint for a cre...
The map may not be the territory, and the word may not be the thing, but this guide is as close a...
Earl L. Stendahl came to Los Angeles in 1909 with the zeal of a showman and an extraordinary eye,...
Culled from the Southern California Sheet Music Collection of the Los Angeles Public Library, thi...
Step inside a world where imagination dwells!
A comprehensive history of the trials, tribulations, and triumphs behind the creation of one of t...
The bestselling book about the Los Angeles River, originally published in 2001, is updated with a...
A highly visual monograph of plans and concept drawings from the Armet Davis Newlove firm, the cr...
A book of fine-art photography featuring the visual history of California.
As Los Angeles confronts a growing housing crisis, a city known for its single-family housing wil...
The first book to tell the early history of cars in Los Angeles.
Discover the glitz and glamour of Hollywood through a tour of its most fabulous mid-century neon ...
A fun, visual book exploring the art, architecture and style of America's mid-century obsession: ...
Terminal Island tells the story of a small island in the Los Angeles harbor and the communities t...
This revised edition takes the history of the Santa Monica Pier even deeper, with new information...