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The politics of religion around the world, featuring John McGahern, A. L. Kennedy, Richard Mabey, Simon Gray, Geoff Dyer, Jackie Kay, Pankaj Mishra, Nell Freudenberger and more on their personal experiences-close, baffling, acrimonious or non-existent-of the divine.

War will never be a thing of the past. We only hope so. The slaughter of 1914-18 was not, after all, 'the war to end all wars' and who now believes that the invasion of Iraq was the first step to peace in the Middle East? Wars change their nature, but states and people continue to pursue the ancient aims of conquest, security, justice and revenge. With: Tahmima Anam, James Buchan, John Burnside, A. M. Homes, Marione Ingram, Simon Norfolk. David Peace, Elif Shafak, Mark Slouka, Wendell Steavenson, Brian Thompson, and Guy Tillim.

Not so much the state we're in as the mess we're getting into. The world we were born into has gone. We shall never completely recapture its climate, its seasons, the way its plants grew and its animals lived. This is not a wild-eyed prediction, a man on the street with a placard. Respectable science knows it and says it. Nine of the world's ten warmest years since records were kept have occurred in the past fourteen years. Every month, an English garden moves south, climatically, by a distance of one hundred yards. Who is responsible? We are our habits. Can we prevent it? Too late. Can we moderate it, slow it, reverse it? Yes- if we try.This issue of Granta contains reports from the frontiers of environment change. Contributors include: Marion Botsford-Fraser; James Hamilton-Paterson; Matthew Hart; Thomas Keneally; Philip Marsden; Bill McKibben; Wayne McLennan; Christopher de Bellaigue; James Meek; and Nuha al-Radi in Iraq. There is new fiction from Maarten 't Hart and Jon McGregor, and a picture essay by Edward Burtynsky on our industrial landscapes.

Now in a new format and better value than ever before. With up to 100 things to spot on every spread, this original series helps children to develop reading, counting and identification skills. Each spread contains a brain-teasing picture puzzle, featuring plenty of things to spot around the world, including volcanoes, rivers, animals and much, much more. Packed with fascinating facts presented in short, easy-to-read captions.