John Freeman

Brought into nationhood under the auspices of a single religion, but wracked with deep separatist fissures and the destabilizing forces of ongoing conflicts in Iran, Afghanistan and Kashmir, Pakistan is one of the most dynamic places in the world today. It is also at the forefront of a literary renaissance. From the writers who are living outside of the country - Daniyal Muenuddin, Kamila Shamsie and Nadeem Aslam to those going back - Mohsin Hamid and Mohammed Hanif - to those who are living there and writing in Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Baluchi and English, like Declan Walsh, this is a startling opportunity to bring an exciting array of voices into one volume. "Granta 112: Pakistan" will seize this moment, bringing to life the landscape and culture of the country in fiction, reportage, memoir, travelogue and poetry. Like the magazine's issues on India and Australia, it will be a watershed moment critically and a chance to celebrate the corona of talent which has burst onto the English-language publishing world in recent years.

We all go back: to the house or town where we were raised, to an old friend or lover, to an idea or belief we long ago abandoned. But can we ever trust our memories? And what if - as it is so for so many - it proves still impossible to go back? In this latest issue of Granta, writers meditate on these essential questions from an exciting array

Sex is our oldest obsession. For as long as we've been doing it, it has been used as a mark of decline and a measure of progress. It has been at the centre of rituals and responsible for revolutions. We make money from it, hide behind it, prohibit and promote it. It relaxes us, revolts us, hurts us and helps us. But whatever we think about it, however we do it, it defines us. Mark Doty examines the phenomenon of being a gay man who once married a woman rather than come out of the closet. Brian Chikwava recounts the history of revolution and sexual liberation in Zimbabwe. Jeanette Winterson offers up a wickedly irreverent modern-day myth about sex and the gods, and Jennifer Egan contributes a piece of fiction about a strung-out, disillusioned music producer. Other contributors include Herta Muller and Dave Eggers and Marie Darrieussecq . We're also pleased to present a previously unpublished piece of prose by the late Roberto Bolano.

As a major contribution to the field of postgraduate activity in drama, theater, and performance, this resource identifies the essential characteristics of practice-based research across a range of countries, contexts, forms, and applications. A vital theory-based guide to such study, topics include locating practice-based research within historical, aesthetic, and educational settings; challenging received ideas of dramatic practice as thesis; distinguishing research from reflection and feelings from findings; and pushing practice-based research into new areas of critical inquiry. The reference includes extensively written case studies of projects from Hala Al-Yamani, Annette Arlander, Robert Germay, Helka-Maria Kinnunen, Felix Nobis, Allan Owens, Helen Paris, Yoni Prior, and Leena Rouhiainen.

Saul Bellow and Ernest Hemingway grew up there. The eight-hour work day, the Ponzi scheme and the rhythm and blues have risen from its streets. But Chicago is not just a city of the past. In this dynamic issue, Granta brings the one-time industrial hub to life through the eyes of exciting new writers, from home grown stars like George Saunders and Stuart Dybek, to immigrants who have come to the city from Bosnia, China and Ethiopia. In this issue, Aleksandar Hemon plays football with Italians and Tibetans along Lake Shore Drive. Chicago born MacArthur 'genius' grant-winning photographer Camilo Jose Vegara captures the demolition of the city's massive public housing estates. Richard Powers recollects the flood of 1992. Don DeLillo remembers Nelson Algren. Alex Kotlowitz explores the cost of urban violence and Dinaw Mengestu describes moving back home to run his dying father's messenger business. Plus a sneak preview of Peter Carey's new novel. Finally, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka meditates on the meaning of the city's most visible son, Barack Obama.Out of these stories - which will be wrapped in a beautiful cover by Chris Ware - will arise a vivid portrait of a city remaking itself: a city shredded by violence but poised for a new future; a city that once again has a legitimate claim to being the home of the world's best writers.

With its mixture of investigative reportage, narrative non-fiction, photography, memoir, fiction and brilliant journalism, "Granta 107" follows on from the critically-acclaimed summer reading issue to showcase more of the best new writing from around the world. In the issue, Mary Gaitskill meditates on how we measure varieties of loss after the disappearance of her rescued cat; Will Self walks through Tehran thirty years on from the revolution; Timothy Phillips uncovers a story of espionage in London between the wars; and, Rana Dasgupta reports from Delhi on the emergence of India's super rich. Plus: Ariel Leve visits the American town revitalized by immigration and Xan Rice among the Polisario rebels fighting for the disputed territory of the western Sahara; and the best new fiction from emerging and established writers.

Are you interested in learning how to treat common conditions naturally? This book presents herbal remedies for over 100 common conditions. Would you like to learn more about common herbal remedies? This book includes descriptions of over 90 common herbal remedies.

Tracing the Footprints is aimed at students, teachers, practitioners and lecturers involved in the documentation of practice. On a surface level, it documents the construction of a performance project, 'At Last Sight,' which was made with a group of final year UK undergraduates. Beyond this, and more importantly, the book serves as a unique document of the activities involved in articulating the processes of live performance. What the book demonstrates is that theatre making is not just one process but many; all linked, interwoven, impossible to disentangle.

Michael T. Hannan and John Freeman examine the ecology of organizations by exploring the competition for resources and by trying to account for rates of entry and exit and for the diversity of organizational forms. They show that the destinies of organizations are determined more by impersonal forces than by the intervention of individuals.

This is an examination of how the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe has dealt with the problem of European security. The book opens with an analysis of conditions in post-war Europe and shows how these gave rise to the CSCE and the Conference for Disarmament in Europe (CDE).