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Author: Rohrbach, John
Title: Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke
Series: Center Books on American Places
Year: 2007
Format: hardcover & paperback; 176 pp.; 123 color plates
Price: $65.00 hc; $35.00 pbk

 

Author: Longmire, Stephen
Title: Keeping Time in Sag Harbor
Series: Center Books on American Places
Year: 2007
Format: hardcover & paperback; 312 pp.; 133 color plates
Price: $65.00 hc; $35.00 pbk

 

Author: Dow, Jim
Title: Marking the Land: Jim Dow in North Dakota
Series: Center Books on American Places
Year: 2007
Format: hardcover & paperback; 224 pp.; 182 color plates
Price: $75.00 hc; $34.95 pbk

 

Author: Sharp, Charles
Title: The Great River: A Novel
Series: Center Books on American Places
Year: 2007
Format: hardcover; 304 pp.
Price: $26.95

 

Author: Cauthen, Sudye
Title: Southern Comforts: Rooted in a Florida Place
Series: Center Books on the American South
Year: 2007
Format: hardcover; 192 pp.; 24 black-and-white photos; 7 maps; 33 figures
Price: $29.95

 

Author: Berger, John
Title: Forests Forever: Their Ecology, Restoration, and Preservation
Year: 2007
Format: hardcover & paperback; 424 pp.; 88 color plates, 6 halftones
Price: $49.50 hc; $27.50 pbk

 

Author: Wolfe, Ann
Title: Suburban Escape: The Art of California Sprawl
Publisher: Center for American Places
Year: 2006
Format: clothbound & paperback; 132 pp.; 64 color and duotone plates;
Price: $65.00 hc; $32.50 pbk

 

Author: Willis, John, and Tom Young, with an introduction by Martha A. Sandweiss
Title: Recycled Realities
Publisher: Center for American Places, in association with Columbia College Chicago
Year: 2006
Format: clothbound; 80 pp.; 60 color plates
Price: $45.00

 

Author: Natal, Judy, with a foreword by Johanna Drucker
Title: Neon Boneyard: Las Vegas A-Z
Publisher: Center for American Places, in association with Columbia College Chicago
Series: Center Books on the American West
Year: 2006
Format: clothbound; 88 pp.; 32 color plates;
Price: $30.00

 

Author: Krim, Arthur, edited by Denis Wood
Title: Route 66: Iconography of the American Highway
Publisher: Center for American Places
Year: 2006
Format: hardcover; 288 pp.; 83 halftones
Price: $35.00

 

Author: Kimball, Justin
Title: Where We Find Ourselves
Publisher: Center for American Places, in association with Columbia College Chicago
Year: 2006
Format: clothbound; 104 pp.; 53 color plates
Price: $45.00

 

Author: Kelley, Margot, with a foreword by Frank Gohlke
Title: Local Treasures: Geocaching Across America
Publisher: Center for American Places
Year: 2006
Format: hardcover; 192 pp.; 68 color photographs
Price: $29.95

 

Author: Hudson, John
Title:
Chicago: A Geography of the City and Its Region
Publisher: Center for American Places, in association with the University of Chicago Press
Year: 2006
Format: hardcover; 365pp.; 35 color plates, 49 duotones, 116 maps
Price: $45.00

 

Author: Frederking, William
Title: At Home
Publisher: Center for American Places, in association with Columbia College Chicago
Year: 2006
Format: clothbound; 88 pp.; 51 tritones
Price: $30.00

 

Author: Dolkart, Andrew
Title: Biography of a Tenement House in New York City: An Architectural History of 97 Orchard Street
Publisher: Center for American Places
Year: 2006
Format: clothbound; 160 pp., 61 black-and-white and color illustrations
Price: $27.50

 

Author: Dilbeck, Perry
Title: The Last Harvest: Truck Farmers in the Deep South
Publisher: Center for American Places
Year: 2006
Format: clothbound; 112 pp.; 64 duotones;
Price: $32.50

 

Author: Wild, Peter
Title: True Tales of the Mojave Desert: From Talking Rocks to Yucca Man
Publisher: Center for American Places
Year: 2005
Format: hardcover & paperback; 224 pp.; 32 black-and-white historic illustrations
Price: $ 45.00 hc; $ 22.50 pbk

 

Author: Thall, Bob
Title: At City's Edge: Photographs of the Chicago Lakefront
Publisher: Center for American Places
Year: 2005
Format: clothbound with jacket; 96 pp.; 64 tritone photographs
Price: $45.00

 

Author: Temkin, Brad, with an introduction by Rod Slemmons
Title: Private Places: Photographs of Chicago Gardens
Publisher: Center for American Places
Year: 2005
Format: signed clothbound limited edition with an original print or clothbound with jacket; 80 pp.; 54 color photographs
Price: $40.00 clothbound; $400 limited edition

 

Author: Stringfellow, Kim
Title: Greetings From the Salton Sea: Folly and Intervention in the Southern California Landscape, 1905-2005
Publisher: Center for American Places
Year: 2005
Format: hardcover with jacket; 144 pp.; 45 color photographs and 13 historic illustrations
Price: $25.00

 

Author: Sharp, Charles D.
Title: The Mississippi River in 1953: A Photographic Journey from the Headwaters to the Delta
Publisher: Center for American Places
Year: 2005
Format: hardcover & paperback; 288 pp.; 117 duotone and 62 color photographs; 2 color maps
Price: $ 49.95 hc; $ 29.95 pbk

 

Author: Saner, Reg
Title: The Dawn Collector: On My Way to the Natural World
Publisher: Center for American Places
Year: 2005
Format: hardcover; 233 pp., 14 color plates
Price: $29.95

 

Author: Holcomb, Eric
Title: The City as Suburb: A History of Northeast Baltimore since 1660
Publisher: Center for American Places
Year: 2005
Format: hardcover with jacket; 288 pp.; 125 black-and-white illustrations
Price: $39.95

 

Author: Fortino, Scott, with an introduction by Judith Russi Kirshner
Title: Institutional: Photographs of Jails, Schools, and Other Chicago Buildings
Publisher: Center for American Places
Year: 2005
Format: signed clothbound limited edition with an original print or clothbound with jacket; 88 pp.; 53 color photographs
Price: $40.00 clothbound; $400 limited edition

 

Author: Borowiec, Andrew
Title: Industrial Perspective: Photographs of the Gulf Coast
Publisher: Center for American Places, in association with Columbia College Chicago
Year: 2005
Format: hardcover; 128 pp., 51 tritones
Price: $50.00

 

Author: Wolke, Jay
Title:
Along the Divide: Photographs of the Dan Ryan Expressway
Publisher: Center for American Places, in association with Columbia College Chicago
Year: 2004
Format: hardcover; 87 pages, 60 color plates
Price: $40.00

 

Author: Welch, Christine with a conclusion by John R. Stilgoe
Title: Commonplace
Publisher: Center for American Places
Year: 2004
Format: hardcover; 96 pp., 57 color plates
Price: $35.00

 

Author: Smith, Mike with introduction by Robert Sobieszek
Title: You're Not from Around Here: Photographs of East Tennessee
Publisher: The Center for American Places, in association with Columbia College Chicago
Year: 2004
Format: hardcover; 120 pp., 92 color plates
Price: $45.00

 

Author: Jones, Nancy Bondurant
Title: Rooted on Blue Stone Hill: A History of James Madison University
Publisher: Center for American Places
Year: 2004
Format: 304 pp.; 315 illustrations (42 color); hardcover
Price: $39.95

 

Author: Grillo, Gina J. with conclusion by Leo Schelbert
Title: Between Cultures: Children of Immigrants in America
Publisher: Center for American Places, in association with Columbia College Chicago
Year: 2004
Format: hardcover; 128 pp., 6 color plates, 61 duotones
Price: $29.95

 

Author: Goin, Peter and C. Elizabeth Raymond
Title: Changing Mines in America
Publisher: Center for American Places
Year: 2004
Format: hardcover & paperback; 256 pp.; 101 four-color plates, 34 duotones
Price: $55.00 hc; $27.50 pbk

 

Author: Burchfield, Jerry with a foreword by Wade Davis and introduction by Johnathan Green
Title: Primal Images: 100 Lumen Prints of Amazonia Flora
Publisher: Center for American Places, in association with Laguna Wilderness Press
Series: Center Books on the International Scene
Year: 2004
Format: hardcover; 144 pp., 118 color plates
Price: $50.00, signed limited edition with case and print: $400

 

Author: Pinney, Melissa Ann, with a foreword by Ann Patchett
Title: Regarding Emma: Photographs of American Women and Girls
Publisher: The Center for American Places, in association with Columbia College Chicago
Year: 2003
Format: hardcover; 120 pages, 78 color plates
Price: $45.00 hc

 

Author: Lewis, Peirce F.
Title: New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape, Second Edition
Forthcoming, February 2007: Third Edition
Publisher: Center for American Places
Year: 2003
Format: hardcover & paperback; 208 pp., black-and-white illustrations
Price: $49.50 hc; $24.50 pbk

 

Author: Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov
Title: The Upland South: The Making of an American Folk Region and Landscape
Publisher: Center for American Places
Year: 2003
Format: hardcover; 176 pp., black-and-white illustrations
Price: $30.00

 

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Author: Forsman, Chuck, with an introduction by William Kittridge and a conclusion by Gregory Conniff
Title: Western Rider: Views from a Car Window
Series: The Road in American Culture
Publisher: Center for American Places
Year: 2003
Format: hardcover; 120 pp., 73 duotone plates
Price: $29.95

 

Authors: Thall, Bob, with an afterword by Ross Miller
Title: City Spaces: Photographs of Chicago Alleys
Series: Center Books on Chicago and Environs
Publisher: Center for American Places
Year: 2002
Format: hardcover; 96 pp., 57 tri-tones
Price: $40.00

 

Author: McPherson, Larry E., with an introduction by Charles Reagan Wilson
Title: Memphis
Publisher: Center for American Places
Year: 2002
Format: hardcover, 160 pp., 122 color plates
Price: $40.00

 

Author: Kenneth Helphand
Title: Dreaming Gardens: Landscape Architecture and the Making of Modern Israel
Series: Center Books on the International Scene
Publisher: Center for American Places, in association with the University of Virginia Press
Year: 2002
Format: hardcover; 320 pp., color illustrations
Price: $44.95

 

Author: Bachrach, Julia S., with a foreword by Bill Kurtis
Title: The City in a Garden: A Photographic History of Chicago's Parks
Series: Center Books on Chicago and Environs
Publisher: The Center for American Places, in association with the Chicago Park District
Year: 2001
Format: hardcover and paperback; 180 pp.
Price: $75.00 hc, $30.00 pbk