"Santa Barbara, Paradise on the Pacific" is a 20,000-word, large-format coffee-table book featuring extensive text by Marcia Meier and photographs by noted Santa Barbara photographer James Chen. The book features a full history of Santa Barbara as well as sections on schools and other community institutions and profiles of community leaders. Published in 1996 by Longstreet Press in Atlanta, this beautiful hardcover book is still available in limited quantities from the Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce.