Jerry de Wilde’s gorgeous photography captures a deeply intimate portrait of a lost era—Los Angel...

Los Angeles lives largest in the world's imagination. It can be a projection, a solution, a tempo...

The fascinating story of people and mid-century modern architecture, merging and prevailing to cr...

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...

Los Angeles Union Station-opened on May 7, 1939, after days of celebration-was the last great tra...

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...

What? Los Angeles was the original wine country of California, leading the state's wine productio...

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...

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...

Thomas Mann's Los Angeles is an illustrated book that explores Nobel-prizewinning author Thomas M...

A book of fine-art photography featuring the visual history of California.

At last, the story of how Hollywood shaped a myth and determined a young woman's reality. A town,...

As Los Angeles confronts a growing housing crisis, a city known for its single-family housing wil...

Bar Keeps: A Collection of California's Best Cocktail Napkins is a fun and fabulous tour through ...

L.A. Painter: The City I Know The City I See is a full-color exploration of Karla Klarin's abstra...

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 ...

KAOS Theory: The Afrokosmic Ark of Ben Caldwell tells the story of filmmaker, educator and commun...

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...

Also On View: Unique and Unexpected Museums of Greater Los Angeles celebrates LA's most fascinati...

Fifty years of the Vietnamese Diaspora as seen through the New Wave movement, showing how young V...

Acclaimed essayist D.J. Waldie turns his eyes to the elements of Los Angeles--earth, water, air a...

A visual history of Japanese American car culture in Los Angeles, from gardeners' trucks and fami...