ParaCulture Books
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Project List
(Year Published, Title, Author/Photographer, Organization, Lisa Lytton’s role)
• One Cubic Foot: Surveys in Biodiversity; David Liittschwager; Packager
• Among Giants: A Life with Whales; Flip Nicklin; Packager
• Deceptive Beauties: Love and Lies in the World of Wild Orchids; Christian Ziegler; Packager
• Through the Eyes of the Vikings: An Aerial Vision of Arctic Lands; Robert B. Haas; Packager
• I Dreamed of Flying Like a Bird: Wild Animals from the Air; Robert B. Haas; Project and Design Editor
• Great Plains: America’s Lingering Wild; Michael Forsberg; University of Chicago Press and the Nature Conservancy; Packager
• A Climate For Life: Towards a Balanced Earth; with International League of Conservation Photographers, Conservation International, and the Cemex Conservation Series; includes features by photographers Frans Lanting, Joel Sartore, Paul Nicklen, John Stanmeyer, Sarah Leen, Robert Clark, Tim Laman, Daniel Beltra, Michael Forsberg; Project and Design Editor
• Hidden Treasures of Afghanistan; National Geographic Books/The National Gallery of Art; Design Editor
• Changing Climate; National Geographic Special Newsstand issue; Design Editor with Elaine Bradley
• Wildlife: The Best Photographs; National Geographic Special Newsstand issue; Design Editor
• Through the Eyes of the Condor: An Aerial Vision of Latin America; Robert B. Haas; Packager
• Postcards from Nowhere: Wish You were Here; Joel Sartore, National Geographic Advertising; Packager
• I Lie for a Living: Greatest Spies of All Time; International Spy Museum; Acquisition and Project Editor (Melissa Farris, designer)
• Dear Mr. President: Letters to the Oval Office from the Files of the National Archives; Dwight Young, intro by Brian Williams; Project Editor (Melissa Farris, designer)
• Through the Eyes of the Gods: An Aerial Vision of Africa; Robert B. Haas; Project Editor (Bill Marr, designer)
• Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs; Zahi Hawass and Kenneth Garrett; Project Editor (Laura Lindgren, designer)
• Archipelago: Portraits of Life in the World’s Most Remote Island Sanctuary; David Liittschwager and Susan Middleton; Acquisition and Project Editor (Melanie Doherty, designer)
• Outrage, Passion, & Uncommon Sense: How Editorial Writers Have Taken on the Great American Issues of the Past 150 Years; Michael Gartner and the Newseum; Acquisition and Project Editor (Melissa Farris, designer)
• Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination; The Museum of Science, Boston; Project Editor (Melissa Farris, designer)
• Hidden Treasures of Ancient Egypt; Zahi Hawass and Ken Garrett; Project and Design Editor
• Faces of Africa; Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher; Acquisition and Project Editor (Melanie Doherty, designer)
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library; Acquisition and Project Editor (Bill Marr, designer)
• International Spy Museum Handbook of Practical Spying; Acquisition and Project Editor (Bea Jackson, designer)
• Impact: From the Frontlines of Global Health; Karen Kasmauski and Peter Jaret; Acquisition and Project Editor (David Griffin, designer)
• Songcatchers: In Search of the World’s Music; Mickey Hart with K.M. Kostyal; Project Editor (Melanie Doherty, designer)
• Another Vietnam: Pictures of the War from the Other Side; Tim Page and Doug Niven; Acquisition and Project Editor (Bill Marr, designer)
• Remains of a Rainbow: Rare Plants and Animals of Hawaii; David Liittschwager and Susan Middleton; Acquisition and Project Editor (Jenny Barry, designer)
• Jubilee: The Emergence of African American Culture; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library; Acquisition and Project Editor (Melanie Doherty, designer)
• Saving America’s Treasures; The National Trust for Historic Preservation, Intro by Hillary Clinton, assigned photography by Ira Block; Acquisition and Project Editor (Bill Marr, designer)
• Broken Empire: After the Fall of the USSR; Gerd Ludwig; Acquisition and Project Editor (David Griffin, designer)
• The Africa Diaries: An Illustrated Memoir of Life in the Bush; Dereck and Beverly Joubert; Acquisition and Project Editor (Certificate of Merit, The Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington, Melanie Doherty Design)
• National Geographic Expedition Journal; Project Editor (Melanie Doherty, designer)
• Warrior Artists; Design Editor (Silver Award, The Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington)
• Last Climb: The Legendary Everest Expeditions of George Mallory; David Breashears and Audrey Salkeld; Design Editor
• The Millennium Issues; National Geographic Magazine, culminating in the Biodiversity issue; photography largely by Frans Lanting; Design Editor for all (Millennium Issues, General Excellence Award, ASME)
• Hunting With the Moon: The Lions of Savuti; Derek and Beverly Joubert; Acquisition and Project Editor; Acquisition, Project, and Design Editor
• Keepers of the Kingdom: The New American Zoo Movement; Nick Nichols; Acquisition and Project Editor; Acquisition, Project, and Design Editor
• Valley of Life: Africa’s Great Rift Valley; Chris Johns; Design Editor



