Synopsis: Dick Tripp, in this very comprehensive expression of the biblical mandate of caring for God's creation, has provided Christians with a detailed biblical approach to the growing crisis in our environment, its causes, the role of the Christian church, and the challenge that lies before us all. Dick's work provides the biblical and spiritual motivation we need to move forward at this critical time. Readers of this well-researched and intelligently argued resource will be given an irresistible biblical vision and mandate to redeem what is being despoiled. --From the Foreword by...

Hidden older illegal drug users are a seldom researched group; most research on illegal drug users instead focusses on the young or the institutionalised. To counter this trend, this book reports on a study of current 'hidden' users of illegal drugs aged 40 and over. These are individuals who have sustained illegal drug use over the long term, largely away from the gaze of the authorities, whilst living otherwise 'conventional' lives, holding down jobs, raising families and so on. Thus they have much to tell us about how illegal substances can be integrated into life over the long term, how...