Get Lost Magazine

Primarily aimed at the younger (and poorer) travel bug sufferer this glossy Australian magazine is a pretty good read and in it's country of origin quite cheap.

The magazine covers travel spots around the world and is aimed very much at looking at travel to out of the way places and undiscovered gems and it probably doesn't matter where you are from given that the magazine tends not to focus overmuch on it's home turf. Most of the articles are just a few pages long and overall the format is pretty much par for the course for any travel mag around the planet.

One thing that would make it a tiny bit less useful for the international reader is that the adverts in the mag are going to be aimed at Australian readers and any dollar prices listed are generally for the same readership.

Overall a good magazine chock full of great travel ideas with which to destroy your bank balance.... I just put down my latest copy a moment ago!

Tennessee Sportsman

Do not order this magazine through Amazon. It takes forever to get the subscription started. It is also hard to get in touch with a real person to complain or work toward resolution of the problem.

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Vital Speeches of the Day

As the name suggests the magazine is a collection of speeches (though not always vital they are varied and have a wide appeal). There is no advertising, no photography, only a collection of 5-9 different speeches which can cover topics from education to nuclear energy to the banking system to the practice of non-violence to ... well just about anything.

I have greatly enjoyed reading it, but there is one complaint I have: The speeches are sometimes not carefully proofread. Since this is a journal devoted exclusively to written transcripts I am discouraged that there are so many typos, occasionally to the point of making a speech almost unreadable (though admittedly this extreme is rare).

Overall, I reccomend it to people interested in broadening their view of the world and looking for different viewpoints.

On a side note, I tried to order this through Amazon and after six months of no service I finally contacted the magazine and was able to get the subscription started. You may want to go directly to the magazine's website for this subscription.

I ordered this April 6, 2004 and I have received nothing. There is no legitimate reason for the process to take this long.

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August 3, 2004

Still nothing.

Reflects poorly not only on the publisher but also on the website that offers the product.

This ordering system is a technological masterpiece of the new millenium!

Bravo, Jeff!

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Model Boats

I'm into RC boats-I like serious scale models, fun scale models, Springer tugs, and sailboats. Wind, electric, or steam power is what I want. I have no interest in nitro powered race boats.

I find that this is the best model boating magazine out there-it fits my interests most closely. (Marine Modelling International is a close second, though.)

I also like that they include several free plans over the course of a year, by great designers like Glynn Guest.

Disney Pixar Cars

Now, as I write this review, let me make it clear that I'm an actual subscriber... with no kids... and I don't exactly fit in the "boys ages 5-9" category. When you subscribe to Cars Magazine, you'll find yourself fully immersed in the world of the beyond-incredible films and shorts. It's a delight to read and an absolutely awesome publication. I'll give you a tour of all the features of the magazine and its many pros and its few cons.

Each issue usually begins with either a "Close Up" or a "Road Trip". Close Ups are interesting, well-put-together profiles of various Cars characters. The folks at Pixar have a story for every vehicle, even if they have less than a minute of screentime, and it's a fun collage and fact-listing of the charries. If you've spent a lot of time looking at Meet The Cars or the Character Bios online, you won't learn anything new, but it's awesome all the same. Road Trips are one of my fave features -these are usually interviews or articles on what's going on in the "World of Cars". Such as a recent interview with Rob Gibbs, director of the Tall Tales shorts and an article on Cars Land. They're really good at being informative and entertaining, although they aren't in every issue.

Usually following this are the games, which are prevalent in every issue, multiple times an issue. The games are fun, though the majority are simple enough for a 5-9-year-old. Though I must say, some of the games were challenging enough to have me stumped! :)

The magazine's other major section is the comics. There usually range from 2-3 comics per issue, the first two usually longer and the third shortest. They're really well-written and on-canon with the Cars series. Some of the highlights include extensions of Mater's Tall Tales and new stories about some of the lesser-known characters, plus new stories of familiar characters (such as Francesco and Holley). They're one of the highest points of the publication!

Then there's Cars World, which delves into fascinating factoids about vehicles, racing, and car technology. I've learned a lot from Cars World that I never would've known!

And finally, there's Cars Club, the place where kids can send in their Cars artwork and creations.

The rest of the magazine is usually heavily populated with games, crafts, coloring pages, and a pull-out poster in every issue. From a physical standpoint, the flaw with the posters and some of the craft stuff is that cutting out or removing the pages will damage your magazine. Most children's magazines will have something on the back of the "removable" stuff to keep from messing up the rest of the magazine, but unfortunately, there are a lot of super-cool posters that I won't be able to take out without losing a couple of games pages in the process. I hope they address this issue in the future, and, by the time you read this, it may have been. Bottom line, the magazine's a ton of fun! If you have a Cars-centric kid in your household, then they'll most likely enjoy it. If you're a Cars-centric teen/adult, then just keep in mind that it IS meant as a children's magazine; I enjoy it primarily because I'm a Pixar geek and I enjoy kids' publications. If that's you, then you'll enjoy it. If you're looking for something a little more in-depth about the diecast-collecting hobby or the making of the movies, Cars Magazine isn't that (or at least isn't that yet!). The price isn't that great, but it'll make for some serious smiles when you pull Mater and Lightning out of your mailbox... whether you're nine or nineteen or ninety!

My little 3 year old grandson wanted mail just like his big brother and he picked this out. A great magazine for little ones and he loves that it has his name on the address. Great stories and puzzles to do with your children. You would not be dissapointed and neither will they.

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First Things

If you have never picked up a copy of "First Things" you need to do so today. There is simply nothing else even remotely like it. No amount of praise could be too lavish for this magazine.

"First Things" an interfaith religious magazine. Yes, I said religious, a word hovering on the brink of the suspect list lately. The magazine does lean to Catholic and Protestant issues, although I have read articles by Jewish writers as well.

In this month's issue (May 08) there are articles on whether or not Shakespeare was Catholic, the ethics of immigration, a very interesting article on marriage, and a warm and personal reflection on William F Buckley. Also a comparison between hard-core atheists like Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx, and the new, soft-core atheists like Dawkins and Hitchens, who call God evil, even though "in order to make such value judgements one must assume, as the hard-core atheists are honest enough to acknowledge, that there exists somewhere, in some mode of being, a realm of rightness that does not owe its existence completely to human invention, Darwinian selection, or social construction (p 75).

You need it to keep abreast of the gossip about the breakup of your favorite mainline denomination and the outrages of liturgical dumb bunnies! To cleanse your mind after an hour spent watching the bilge that television producers call entertainment! To keep your sanity as western civilization collapses!

You need it as a gift to a student leaving to be brainwashed in one of our universities.

You need it as the perfect gift for those atheist friends of yours who claim all believers are barely sentient.

And, of course, it is an obviously necessary gift to yourself.

The journal "First Things" fills an important niche in the intellectual landscape of the ever-changing marketplace of ideas. It is, as its description states "the journal of religion, culture, and public life." In my humble opinion the definite article in the description is well deserved since "First Things" has positioned itself as the definitive journal on those three subjects and especially on their intersection and interplay. The ordering of the importance those three subjects from the description also reflects more or less accurately how prominently they are covered in the pages of the "First Things." The journal has gained considerable reputation for its unapologetic stance on the role of religion in public life, especially when it comes to politics. This is one of the thorniest issues that is often misunderstood: religion, just like any other ethical system, can and should inform those decisions that are relevant for the common good.

The editor-in-chief of the magazine is father Richard John Neuhaus. He is a public intellectual par excellence and someone whose opinion and knowledge I admire a great deal. His mega-column/article "The Public Square" is a regular feature in every issue of the "First Things."

Besides "The Public Square" each issue of "First Things" has several lengthy in-depth articles, a few shorter opinion pieces, book reviews, correspondence and poems. Over the years contributors to the "First Things" have included Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI), Avery Cardinal Dulles, Christoph Schönborn, George Weigel, Stephen Webb, R. R. Reno, Timothy George, Stephen Barr, Joseph Bottum, Michael Novak, and many, many others.

All past issues of "First Things" (older than two months) can be found on the journal's website () and I would strongly urge anyone who is interested in finding out more about this wonderful publication to visit the website. In addition, the website features a daily blog article that cannot be found in the journal itself.

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First Things is a thoughtful magazine with articles that will still be worth reading ten years from now. Like Atlantic Monthly, Touchstone, New Yorker, or Foreign Policy, First Things is filled with ideas that are analytical and thoughtful. Unlike all of those aforementioned publications, the viewpoints found in First Things are decidedly Catholic, and the focus of the magazine is on social or religious issues.

I have been a subscriber to First Things for fifteen years now, and an admirer of Richard John Neuhaus, the editor (died in 2009), an intellectual tour-de-force. Since the death of Neuhaus, the publication has taken on a distinctively different look; for example, the front cover, which used to feature the contents as a teaser to what might be found within the magazine, now displays a black and white line drawing, symbolic of some topic covered inside. The new editor of the magazine, Joseph Bottum, has improved the magazine by making it more visually appealing.

First Things: Within the spectrum of Catholic and Jewish thought, it contains wide-ranging articles and reports on how religion and society interact. It's definitely a publication worth reading, especially for an evangelical such as I.

W.T. (Ted) Hinds

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I never know what to expect from an issue of First Things, only that the content will delight, surprise, and satisfy me. The latest issue, for instance, carried three intriguing headlines on the cover "Cicero is a Superstar" "Pete Seeger is a Communist" and "Mitch Albom is an Idiot." Wonderful! I didn't know where to begin!

This magazine is a right of center look at the interaction of Religion and Culture from a generally Catholic point of view. Being Catholic, the "right of center" can often be very different than the main stream right of center perspective portrayed in the popular media. The positions are more thoughtful, and on issues such as immigration, you can feel the concern for both the immigrant and the native in their writing.

The book reviews are always worth reading, even if you never intend to pick up the books discussed. They get some powerhouse names to write some of the reviews, and this being a more serious magazine than some of these writers usually show up in, you can see their mind at a stronger task than you usually do. I'm thinking particullarly of a few National Review writers who I wish would write in the NR at the same level of seriousness they approach writing in FT.

***Compared to when Neuhas ran the show?***

How does this magazine stack up to what it used to be, in Neuhaus' capable hands? It is being passed, like all good traditions, to the new generation (which, truth be told, is mostly the old generation, minus Newhaus).

The articles are just as good. The letters to the editor are still the strongest of any magazine I read. The book reviews are as compelling. Joseph Bottum is still trying to figure out how to make The Public Square his own, but he has some very impressive shoes to fillit'll take some time to get there, but I have no doubt he'll find a way to honor the past while moving forward in his own way.

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If you want to know what commited & intelligent believers are thinking & talking about, look no further!

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Your Cat

This magazine surpasses every American cat magazine I've read. The oversize glossy magazine is well worth paying the extra price for overseas shipping. Each month contains cat health articles providing information from vets, alternative medicine practioners, and animal behaviorists. A breed cat is showcased every month and again, the photography is superb. You'll also find letters from cat owners in the UK, America, and abroad as well as fiction and non-fiction from contributors. Your Cat discusses vaccination, pet insurance, neutering, and features recommendations for cat products, many of which are also available here in the States. These magazines are valuable references -you won't be disappointed!

It is a little expensive, but this is the best cat magazine out there. I would give six stars if i could.

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"Your Cat" is the best cat magazine ever created. Second place isnt even close. If you love cats this somewhat expensive mag is worth every penny.

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I was hopeing it would be like Cat Fancy, and it is!! More health, stories, and other fun things about kitties. This magazine sticks out because it also lists many products. Not just toys for people that own cats, but things that help make life better. Sure I like the cat themed note cards, but I love the fence gaurds, new pet door designs, and especially the bed attachment. A great up beat vibe too. I think it is worth the money, and I will renew my subscription.

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"This magazine surpasses every American cat magazine I've read." --I agree with this.

Aci Materials Journal

I would like to thank ACI to have all this amount of information for students,prophesors and industrial, for me ACI my guidness in my Ms. research which suport me by alot of knowldege,I hope this type of journal can be available in our Arabic world and in our book shope

Flower Arranger

The Flower Arranger is produced by NAFAS (the National Association of Flower Arranging Societies) in the UK and as such reflects the in-house nature of its contents. Unless you are 'in the know' you are left wondering what it is all about.

The quality of the pictures of the arrangements are very mixed and although there have been recent alterations to the layout, the magazine itself is very stiff and formal. Any teaching or reference points tend to be very basic and seem to be aimed at beginners. Few references are made to up-to-date designs and, if there are, there are no real explanations about concepts.

This is a magazine suitable for members of the organisation it represents and is very formal in nature.

As a subscriber to several flower related magazines from across the world I consider this magazine a valuable and interesting read, and one which I would certainly recommend investing in. The Flower Arranger often showcases designs which are `fairly traditional' and perhaps `contrived.', but these are interspersed with other more 'of the moment' design ideas, and numerous other interesting articles about all kinds of related subjects. There are all kinds of foibles and controversies in this very emotive and personal industry/pastime. For example, I believe the term 'contemporary' is sometimes confusing and always changing as often there is nothing more appropriate than a simple collection of materials displayed in an appropriate setting yet it is fitting and 'of the moment' so must be contemporary but is it??!! Whilst the Flower Arranger may veer towards `safe' and `arranged' rather than `outlandish' or `startlingly simple' there is always plenty to glean from the multitude of contributors. Sure there are always arrangements and articles which do not fit in with your personal approach or interest in the subject, but if viewed objectively, they will aid the discovery, learning curve and development of your personal style, which is surely what it's all about? Often looking at a piece of work and working out why you don't like it is as valuable as looking at a design which you find enchanting because, as with any art form, if the work has caused a reaction from the viewer it has been successful. And thinking about the how, why and what ifs is how we all discover, learn and explore the never-ending possibilities of combining the treasures which nature has to offer to make an important and lasting visual contribution to our fast-moving, ever-changing lives. There is something for everyone in this magazine.

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Having not seen a copy after many months of waiting, I would not recomend the magazine to anyone. Send the magazine!

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