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Strategy+Business publishes a great business book list every year.

Do you know the ancient Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times”? Well, it’s not ancient and it’s not Chinese. (According to a definitive debunking by Stephen E. DeLong, a professor at the State University of New York at Albany, its first verifiable appearance was in a 1950 short story in Astounding Science Fiction magazine.) It may not even be a curse. But it’s unquestionably applicable to readers of strategy+business circa 2006: We are living in highly interesting times, and that fact is underscored resoundingly in our fifth annual survey of the year’s best business books.

Start with Howard Rheingold’s masterful review of seven recent books about the future: These forecast everything from tectonic shifts in labor, markets, and ideas, to ecological disasters and mind-blowing scenarios of technological advance and mutation. Read them, Mr. Rheingold urges, and “you can clue yourself in to the issues that you and your family, colleagues, customers, and community will be facing in what is already shaping up to be the most surprising century in human history.”

Material Handling Management: The source of information, knowledge and inspiration for material handing professionals.

Material Handling Management brings together a community of Supply Chain and Material Handling managers to inspire and drive their quest for operational excellence.  MHM explores the issues, trends, products, technology, and best practices that enable Material Handling managers to succeed in today's hyper-competitive global economy.

Material Handling Management magazine is directed to a qualified circulation of 92,500 plant and warehouse managers and operations personnel responsible for material handling logistics in manufacturing, warehousing and distribution. News and features cover the major material handling processes of material movement, storage, control and protection. Editorial focuses on material handling applications, technology innovation, and strategies for increasing productivity, cutting operating costs, improving safety, supporting effective inventory control, and facilitating product/information flow.

Business 2.0 is a magazine founded by magazine entrepreneur Chris Anderson and journalist James Daly, formerly at Forbes and Wired, in 1998 to chronicle the rise of the "New Economy." Having originally set out to examine the interaction between technology and business, it now focuses primarily on innovation and business opportunity. In its first issue (coverline "New Rules") it included a specially printed insert devoted to "The 10 Driving Principles of the New Economy," adding an eleventh (partnerships) to the list in 2000.

Business 2.0 enjoyed extraordinary early growth in readers and advertising, selling more than 2000 advertising pages in just its second full year of publishing, believed to be a record for an American monthly newsstand magazine.

At the beginning of every year, Business 2.0 prints a popular list of the "101 Dumbest Moments in Business" that have occurred during the previous year. (From Wikipedia)

New Electronics is the UK’s leading trade and technical magazine serving the electronics design community.

Published fortnightly, this bright and lively magazine is read avidly by senior designers, technologists and engineering managers throughout the UK.

Every issue contains technology news plus technical articles and new product information divided into Technology Sections. The Technology Sections allow busy designers to turn quickly to the areas of most interest to them. The fortnightly frequency ensures we keep readers up to date with the latest devices and design techniques. The colourful design allows us to present technical information in an efficient, easy to read format.

SIGNAL Magazine is the only international news magazine serving the critical information needs of government, military and industry decision makers active in the fields of C4ISR, information security, intelligence, research and development, electronics, and homeland security.

SIGNAL explores the art of the possible, expanding beyond new products and applications to include comprehensive coverage of programs and solutions.

Every issue of SIGNAL focuses on a vital theme while providing other relevant news and information through special reports and stand-alone articles. High ranking leaders of government, military and commercial organizations are the primary sources for most SIGNAL articles. Their input is complemented by articles that also address management and user perspectives.

NIH MedlinePlus Magazine is a new quarterly guide for patients and their families. It brings the latest and most authoritative medical and healthcare information from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as featured online on the MedlinePlus Web site.

This Issue Highlights: Allergies, Cancer, High blood pressure, Parkinson's disease.

MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news.

Esquire is a magazine for men owned by the Hearst Corporation. The magazine was founded in 1933 and flourished during the depression under the guidance of founder and editor Arnold Gingrich.

ESQUIRE is a fascinating mix of entertainment and enlightenment - stories that amaze and intrigue, fantastic fiction, down-to-earth fashion, sports, great places to do cool things, advice on nutrition and sexual fitness and fabulous women. Plus books. Movies. Music. Humor. Politics. ESQUIRE is as refreshing as a cold beer on a hot day.

"Esquire is special because it's a magazine for men. Not a fashion magazine for men, not a health magazine for men, not a money magazine for men. It is not any of these things; it is all of them. It is, and has been for nearly seventy years, a magazine about the interests, the curiosity, the passions, of men." David Granger, Editor in Chief