Through much of history our relationship with the earth has been plagued by ambivalence--we not only enjoy and appreciate the forces and manifestations of nature, we seek to plunder, alter, and control them. Here Paul Shepard uncovers the cultural roots of our ecological crisis and proposes ways to repair broken bonds with the earth, our past, and nature. Ultimately encouraging, he notes, "There is a secret person undamaged in every individual. We have not lost, and cannot lose, the genuine impulse."

In his poetry, writer and mountaineer C. L. Rawlins evokes the natural world and the American West in exciting detail. Philosophical, harsh, beautiful, gritty, in his poems Rawlins reveals himself to be a "non-romantic Romantic."

A mountaineer and field hydrologist, he expertly approaches nature and the environment without sentimentality. In this second collection of his poetry, Rawlins speaks of many of the major issues of our time, in accessible yet wonderfully crafted poems. Rawlins treats the world of the human heart with wit and humor and great humanity.

THE DAILY STUDY BIBLE does not need an introduction: having sold in excess of five million copies it is known throughout the world precisely for what it is: a daily study Bible. This INDEX is an aid to its greater use. By means of a six-fold division (of Old Testament references; of New Testament references; of Subjects and Places; of Personal Names; of Foreign Words, Terms and Places; and of Ancient Writings) the reader is enabled to explore further the ideas, opinions and subjects - as well as the sources - used in the individual parts of the series.