cultures

Karma Chameleon
$0.99

Celebrate Connections among Cultures
$16.95
Celebrate!: Connections Among Cultures by Jan Reynolds is a superbly illustrated descriptive survey of diverse cultures around the world, and the similarities many of them share. Carrying young readers ages 5 to 9 through an outstanding collection of photographs combined with a "kid friendly" text, Celebrate! offers an intriguing look into the celebrations of such different people and cultures as those of the Australian Outback, Bali, the Amazon basin of South America, the tropical islands of Indonesia in South Asia, and so many more. An important contribution to school and community library "Other Lands, Other People" reference collections for children, Celebrate! is very strongly recommended for anthropological compendium of facts for elementary school level social studies and world culture curriculum supplemental reading lists.

Book of Peoples of the World: A Guide to Cultures (National Geographic)
$40.00
This is a really nice coffee table book. It is a very good document of cultural diversity, but this book update failed to incorporate latest research of their own National Genographic project Genographics. The project results are available for couple years already - book "The Journey of Men" was published in 2004.
Therefore, references to tribal or ethnic origins are in some places of the book simply wrong. An example is the origin of western Balkan ethnic groups.
The book is very colorful with excellent photos. It is probably too much to expect it to be a scientific reference, too.

Greatest Hits
$11.94
The songs brought back a lot of good memories; happy, carefree times. Four of my all-time Culture Club favs (in this order) were on this CD: Church of the Poison Mind, Karma Chameleon, Time, and Miss Me Blind. On the cover is Boy George in all his flamboyance--he does makeup better than any woman I know. The costumes he wore...over the top gorgeous. It's sad, though, to see where he went in his heyday to where he is now.