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The History of civilization

by Edward E. Smith, W. H. R. Rivers, Charles Horton Cooley, Lowie, Robert Harry, Raymond William Firth, Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, Léon Pol Homo, Marcel Granet, Henri Hubert, Gustave Glotz, Alexandre Moret, V. Gordon Childe, Montague Summers
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~86h 9min
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About Author

Edward E. Smith

Edward Smith was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, the son of staunch Presbyterians of British ancestry. The following winter, his family moved to Spokane, Washington, and, in 1902, to Seneaquoteen, Idaho, to farm. He received two degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Idaho in 1914. He married in 1915. One evening, while he and his wife were visiting friends, a discussion about space travel led to Smith agreeing to co-author a novel with one of the friends, although after getting about a third of the way through, they abandoned it. Smith went on to receive a Master's degree in Chemistry from George Washington University in 1917 and a doctorate in Chemical Engineering in 1918. In 1919, he became chief chemist for F. W. Stock & Sons of Hillsdale, Michigan. That same year he resumed writing his first novel, The Skylark of Space, which he finished in 1920, although multiple submissions failed to get it published until 1928. He continued to write and publish stories through the 1930s. In 1936 he took a job as a food technologist at the Dawn Doughnut Company of Jackson, Michigan, while continuing to write and sell fiction. During World War II, he worked for the U.S. Army, and after the war he took a job with the J. W. Allen Company, which he held until his professional retirement in 1957. After his retirement he and his wife moved to Clearwater, Florida in the winters and Seaside, Oregon in the summer. He continued to write until his death in 1965.

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Lensman series, Book 2 of 7 In First Lensman, we find the benevolent super-beings of Arisia ready to bestow the first "lens" on a human being (which, among other things, will give humans telepathic powers). The honor goes to Virgil Samms, who will ever after be known as the "First Lensman." But it's a title that he'll have to earn by establishing the Galactic Patrol, a group that is at once powerful and incorruptible, and will protect the universe from the evil and almost-unstoppable Eddorians. If that weren't tough enough, Samms must also dodge assassination attempts at home and help his second-in-command, Rod "The Rock" Kinnison, win the presidency of North America. And that's just the beginning of his troubles.

How the series evolves

beginning
#2 First Lensman
4.3· strong start
the pit
Roman political institutions from city to state
0.0
finale
The History of Witchcraft and Demonology
0.0· messes up the ending
overall
0.8· maybe series needed more care

Books in this Series

#2

First Lensman

Edward E. Smith
4.3 (6)
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Lensman series, Book 2 of 7 In First Lensman, we find the benevolent super-beings of Arisia ready to bestow the first "lens" on a human being (which, among other things, will give humans telepathic powers). The honor goes to Virgil Samms, who will ever after be known as the "First Lensman." But it's a title that he'll have to earn by establishing the Galactic Patrol, a group that is at once powerful and incorruptible, and will protect the universe from the evil and almost-unstoppable Eddorians. If that weren't tough enough, Samms must also dodge assassination attempts at home and help his second-in-command, Rod "The Rock" Kinnison, win the presidency of North America. And that's just the beginning of his troubles.

Social organization

W. H. R. Rivers, Charles Horton Cooley, Lowie, Robert Harry, Raymond William Firth, Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon
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Roman political institutions from city to state

Léon Pol Homo
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Italie primitive et les débuts de l'impérialisme romain

Léon Pol Homo
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Chinese Civilization

Marcel Granet
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Gray Lensman

Edward E. Smith
4.0 (3)
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This is classic space opera, full of adventure. Not great literature, but alot of fun.

The Rise of the Celts

Henri Hubert
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The greatness and decline of the Celts

Henri Hubert
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Study of the expansion of the Celts into Europe and with their decline under the Romans from about 500 B.C. up to about 1100 A.D., with the Norman Conquest of England and Wales.

Ancient Greece at work

Gustave Glotz
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Celtes et l'expansion celtique jusqu'à l'époque de La Tène

Henri Hubert
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Nil et la civilisation égyptienne

Alexandre Moret
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First published in 1926 by La Renaissance du Livre, 78 Boulevard Saint-Michel, Paris

The Aryans

V. Gordon Childe
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Primitive Italy and the beginnings of Roman imperialism

Léon Pol Homo
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The History of Witchcraft and Demonology

Montague Summers
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This book was written from what critics have called a medieval viewpoint, an absolute and complete belief in witchcraft and, hence, in the supernatural. Among the subjects covered by Dr. Summers are: The Witch; Heretic and Anarchist; Demons and Familiars; the Sabbat; the Witch in Holy Writ; Diabolic Possession and Modern Spiritism; and the Witch in Dramatic Literature. The Reverend Montague Summers was a Roman Catholic priest. However, his views on witchcraft and demonology differed considerably from those of Catholic encyclopedists and spokesmen of today. He is not ashamed of the greatest excesses committed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. On the contrary, he vigorously defends everything the Church ever did to extirpate witchcraft and heresy.