Seasoned New Mexico anthropologist and psychotherapist Stephen Powell's Apocalyptic Grace: The Evolution of Culture and Consciousness (Ocean Tree, $24.00) illuminates the hunter/gatherer, horticultural, agrarian, and industrial/technological Worlds that have prevailed until the present moment.

Powell also examines the new, Fifth World unfolding-a world without border, in which we may begin to experienec a more integrative and holistic appreciation of all aspects of culture, religion, psychology and economics.  The "wisdom traditions" are shown to hold seeds truths of both the nature and the profound changes that mark the transition between each World.  Powell's book leads the reader on a stunning survey of this remarkable journey in which we begin to learn how to integrate the humanitarian aspects of all of these Worlds, embracing multiculturalism without losing cultural integrity.