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The theme of the Winter 2006 issue (pdf) of IIASA’s Options Magazine focuses is climate change.

Featured are articles on: Dealing with uncertainties, Responding to climate change in an uncertain world. Food, water, and climate change, Food production and fresh water supply are under threat from dangerous anthropogenic interference in Earth's climate. From ice age to heat wave, A brief history of climate change research at IIASA. Helping to understand a changing world, The role of Siberia in the global carbon cycle. Running cars on methonol,  The official race fuel for the Indianapolis 500 may soon be coming to a gas station near you. A last resource, Nobel laureates's planet-saving technology.

The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) is a non-governmental research organization.

MSDN Magazine is a developers' guide to Microsoft tools, development environments, and technologies for Windows and the Web. It provides technical experts with real-world solutions, business applications for new technology, and first looks at the latest products.

MSDN Magazine covers all development angles including distributed computing, Web development, and Windows application development. The focus of MSDN Magazine is to generate creative and accurate content on using Microsoft development technologies across the entire spectrum of desktop to enterprise and .NET applications. As part of Microsoft's indispensable MSDN family of developer resources (msdn.microsoft.com), MSDN Magazine provides in-depth, cutting-edge information written by industry experts and edited by Microsoft professionals.

Established in 1915, Monthly Labor Review is the principal journal of fact, analysis, and research from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, an agency within the U.S. Department of Labor. Each month, economists, statisticians, and experts from the Bureau join with private sector professionals and State and local government specialists to provide a wealth of research in a wide variety of fields—the labor force, the economy, employment, inflation, productivity, occupational injuries and illnesses, wages, prices, and many more.

This issue opens with a three-piece review of recent trends in the construction industry and its relationship to the broader economy. John P. Mullins documents the differences in the responses to the business cycle that have marked construction employment in recent recessions and recoveries. In the most recent cycle, the residential and nonresidential construction components have had very different employment trends.

AudioFile, The Magazine for People Who Love Audiobooks.

AudioFile, the only magazine devoted to audiobooks, is indispensable for anyone who enjoys spoken-word audio. We review more than 100 audiobooks in each issue and award exceptional performances with AudioFile's Earphones Awards.

AudioFile reviews unabridged and abridged audiobooks, original audio programs, commentary, and dramatizations in the spoken-word format. Our focus is the audio presentation, not the critique of the written material.

AudioFile reviewers are professionals in the information, education, and performance fields. Each issue of AudioFile lists the reviewers of the month's titles. All reviews are signed.

M&C, Perfection in Planning!

M&C magazine is the definitive resource for meetings industry news featuring issues and trends, practical how-to features and destination guides for more than 70,000 meeting professionals who plan and book over one million meetings annually. Monthly, 13 issues per year (including the annual Gavel issue).

Since 1965, Meetings & Conventions magazine has been helping meeting and event planners in corporations, associations, incentive houses and independent planning companies excel at their jobs and effectively manage their careers. In our award-winning monthly print publication and here at M&C Online, we offer in-depth features, informative columns, destination insights, news analysis, original research and much more. And, our new, improved website offers additional tools: an articles archive, a powerful facility search engine, breaking news and other helpful features -- literally at your fingertips.

CommonWealth: Politics, Ideas & Civic Life in Massachusetts.

CommonWealth is published quarterly by the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth (MassINC).

Founded in 1996, the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth – known as MassINC – is an independent, nonpartisan research and educational institute. MassINC brings together diverse perspectives – including those held by conservatives and liberals, business and labor, advocates and policy makers – to focus on the challenge of achieving the American Dream in Massachusetts. To pursue our goals, we use independent research, a wide range of public events, and a unique approach to journalism.

MassINC is a new kind of think tank – one that combines the intellectual rigor of academic research with the timeliness and energy needed to get our ideas into the public debate. Headquartered in Boston, MassINC is a tax-exempt, 501(c) 3 organization funded through grants and contributions from individuals and sponsors, which include foundations, businesses, and labor unions representing the full range of viewpoints in our community.

BtoB , the magazine for marketing strategists, delivers timely editorial on all disciplines of business-to-business marketing. Published monthly by Crain Communications Inc, BtoB provides more than 45,000 subscribers with the information and analysis they need to develop a winning integrated marketing strategy for their companies.

BtoB also publishes Media Business, the magazine for business publishing executives.

Because it's the only publication focused exclusively on business-to-business publishing, more than 5,000 industry leaders subscribe to Media Business for the latest trends and insightful analysis.