As a young boy, Johnny loses his parents. As Johnny grows, so does his revenge on how to get rid of people who miss treat him. It starts with Johnny watching small insects and how they eat their prey. When he is a young adult, he finds himself alone and working hard to live on his own. Johnny then gets rid of people he sees as useless in his world to bigger animals, such as the tigers he cares for at the safari park. He then finds himself on the run from the law and still killing. The alligators he seeks to do his killings are no fun. Johnny finds another safari park with tigers and a new...

First Civilizations is the second edition of a popular student text first published in 1996 in Montreal by Les Editions Champ Fleury. This much updated and expanded edition provides an introductory overview of the civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt. It was conceived primarily for students who have little or no knowledge of ancient history or archaeology. The book begins with the role of history and archaeology in understanding the past, and continues with the origins of agriculture and the formation of the Sumerian city-states in Mesopotamia. Three subsequent chapters...

Olmeca-Xicallanca, 'People from the Land of Rubber, People from the Land of Canoes' - the Nahuatl name of these ethnic groups invokes the hot, alluvial coastal plains of Veracruz, Tabasco, and Campeche (Mexico). For almost a century studying the ethnohistoric records on the Olmeca-Xicallanca, scholars have sought answers to the questions of 'who?', 'what?', 'why?', 'when?', and 'where?' These questions have been by no means easy to answer - this present volume of contributions puts forward a series of answers and possible solutions.