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Rating:  - Great Magazine
National Geographic is the best nature, ecological, cultural magazine I have ever come across. You learn about cultures from all over the world, and the articles are easy to understand. The photography is wonderful.
Great for the whole family. You'll enjoy reading it, and the children will love the photographs.
Rating: - Current events, Geography, History, Science, Biology...more
This is a magizine which I look forward to reading each month. This is also the only magizine which I keep subscription to over years. Usually, I simply get one years worth of any magizine since articles tend to repeat themselves. Not so with National Geographic. I enjoy this magizine so much that I even get the slipcovers National Geographic sells to keep the magizines and maps organized and neat on my shelves(I also reccomend getting the slipcovers for anyone who wants to keep your collection organised)As a child, I would read my parents extensive collection of National Geographic magizines month after month, and read back issues for the wonderful pictures, maps, and articles about different cultures. Many a school report was based on inspiration from this magizine. I find the articles on science, anthropology, archeology, nature, current cultural events, and the many maps(about five a year) to be great reasons to keep my subscription up year after year. My three year old enjoys the varied pictures throughout the magizine, and as he gets older he will be introduced to the great articles and he will have a better start on geography because of the many maps from National Geographic which decorate the walls in our home. I always find something new to learn from National Geographic. This is also a current heirloom of sorts...I hope to pass on the same love of learningto my children that I learned as a child, in part due this excellent magizine.
Rating: - In Response to "International Geographic"
Not certain I understand the fuss about National Geographic covering so many international geographic topics and issues.1. Hello! The magazine is the journal of the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. (You think Scientific American won't cover the Nobel Prize because it is awarded in Sweden?)
2. Geography is about spatial analysis and scale. Geographic issues cannot be contained within a single formal regional border. (For example, can you really look at El Paso, TX, without investigating it's relationshiip to Ciudad Juarez right across the border?)
3. My family has been reading this magazine for 50 years. It has always covered the entire world, as "GEOGRAPHY" means 'a description of the world'.
4. What about newer features such as ZIP CODE, which covers in detail one single micro-region of the US.
5. To say that it should primarily cover the US is a surprisingly narrow, US-centric view of what really matters in the world. This is the point of view that explains the sad state of complete geographic knowledge in the US. But enough of that. Still the best magazine, not just for us Geography majors, but for seeing how geography fits into the entire academic world. If you want to know how sense of space and place is related to physical and natural science, as well as politics, economics, anthropology and history, this is the best value for the money.
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