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For National Park Week, UC Press is highlighting books that give us new ways of understanding and seeing our national parks. These titles explore how our national parks came to be and chart their future.Vision and PlaceJohn Wesley Powell and Reimagining the Colorado River Basinedited by Jaso

These books make the perfect gifts for the arts enthusiast in your life—intimately exploring epic lives and the legacies these artists left behind.

This fall, author Tyler Green is continuing his series of lectures in relation to his award-winning book, Carleton Watkins: Making the West American, an expansive history of influential landscape photographer Carleton Watkins (1829–1916).“This book is a thoughtfully researched meditation on