BOOKS Transforming the Traditional: The work of Cohen & Hacker Architects from Images Publishing. Twenty years of residential architecture by Stuart Cohen & Julie Hacker, including many projects not on their website. Available in bookstores April 2009 or from Images Publishing at www.imagespublishinggroup.com.

Great Houses of Chicago: 1871-1921 by Susan Benjamin and Stuart Cohen. (Mar. 20, 334pp, $75). Individual essays describing historic Chicago homes accompanied by archival photographs and floor plans. Available in bookstores or from Acanthus Press at orders@acanthuspress.com or call 800 827 7614.

North Shore Chicago: The Houses of the Lakefront Suburbs. 1880-1940 by Stuart Cohen and Susan Benjamin. Introduction by Franz Schulze. (Nov. 1, 336pp, $77). Individual essays describing the historic houses of Chicago's North Shore accompanied by archival photographs many that have never before been published. Available in bookstores or from Acanthus Press at orders@acanthuspress.com or call 800 827 7614.