Poems and photographs depict desert ecosystems in North America.

Describes briefly the most widely accepted scientific explanations regarding the origins of the universe, the birth of stars, and the formation of the planets.

"Steven Loza explores how the iconic aspects of religion transcend mere symbolism with a collection of essays that examine the arts and their relationship to religious belief in three cultural areas of the world: the Mexican mestizo belief in the Virgen de Guadalupe, the West African Yoruba religion's base in a divination system of orishas, and the Sufi sect of Islam's musical/textual practices of devotional ecstasy to God. The essays included here...