1. Acknowledgement; 2. Glossary of transcription conventions; 3. Requesting - from speech act to recruitment (by Drew, Paul); 4. Human agency and the infrastructure for requests (by Enfield, N.J.); 5. Benefactors and beneficiaries: Benefactive status and stance in the management of offers and requests (by Clayman, Steven E.); 6. The putative preference for offers over requests (by Kendrick, Kobin H.); 7. On divisions of labor in request and offer environments (by Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth); 8. The social and moral work of modal constructions in granting remote requests (by Steensig, Jakob); 9. Two request forms of four year olds (by Wootton, Anthony J.); 10. Orchestrating directive trajectories in communicative projects in family interaction (by Goodwin, Marjorie Harness); 11. How to do things with requests: Request sequences at the family dinner table (by Mandelbaum, Jenny); 12. On the grammatical form of requests at the convenience store: Requesting as embodied action (by Sorjonen, Marja-Leena); 13. Requesting immediate action in the surgical operating room: Time, embodied resources and praxeological embeddedness (by Mondada, Lorenza); 14. When do people not use language to make requests? (by Rossi, Giovanni); 15. "Requests" and "offers" in orangutans and human infants (by Rossano, Federico); 16. Subject Index; 17. Name Index