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The expansive diversity of Colombia and the beauty of its 51 natural parks are vividly presented in this collection of more than 700 photographs. From the Vía Parque Isla de Salamanca to the Old Providence McBean Lagoon, images of each park's landscape are accompanied by informative text, charts, and maps.

Chino Valley was once part of the immense Rancho Santa Ana del Chino grant conferred in 1841 to Don Antonio Lugo, the former alcalde of Los Angeles. Forty years later, a portion of the rancho was sold to Richard Gird, an American entrepreneur and prospector from Tombstone, Arizona. With characteristic Yankee ingenuity, Gird increased his holdings to nearly 50,000 acres in a short period of time, planned and developed the present-day city of Chino, and transformed the valley into an agricultural empire based on sugar beet production. Chino later emerged as the center for the California dairy...

In fall 2012, the hardcover edition of this book was released to critical acclaim and received several awards, including the 2013 American Society of Landscape Architects Honor Award for its innovative collaborative approach and design. Now available in a smaller, more afford - able paperback edition, Petrochemical America features Richard Misrachs haunting photo-graphic record of Louisianas Chemical Corridor, accompanied by landscape architect Kate Orff s Ecological Atlasa series of speculative drawings developed through research and mapping of data from the region. Their joint effort...

Un impactante ensayo fotográfico sobre la Revolución Sandinista en Nicaragua, que comenzó en la década de los setenta, concebido por uno de los grandes maestros del lente, el fotógrafo Pedro Valtierra. Pedro Valtierra tenía 24 años cuando vino a Nicaragua para componer su crónica gráfica de la revolución, enviado por el diario unomásuno, un periódico entonces novedoso, recién fundado en 1977 por un grupo de periodistas independientes encabezados por Manuel Becerra Acosta [...] Cuando entró con su cámara en el paisaje de guerra de Nicaragua, su edad era la misma de muchos de los ...