Description
Guns, germs and steel may have transformed us from hunter-gatherers into modern humans, but alcohol, sex, trash talk and getting high also helped build our civilization. Robert Evans, a writer for Cracked, uses painstaking research and lively insight to reveal the many remarkable ways vice has influenced history, from a prostitute who became empress and achieved a major victory for women’s rights to the beer that helped create and destroy South America’s first empire. Evans goes beyond ancient debauchery, recreating some of history’s most enjoyable and painful vices and including guides so readers can try them at home. Learn how to get high like a Greek philosopher, rave like your Stone Age ancestors, get drunk like a Sumerian and smoke a nose pipe like a pre-Columbian Native American.
Informations
Author: Evans Robert
Language: English
Publication date: 9 août 2016
Manufacturer: Folio, spol.s r.o.
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books, History books in english, Non-fiction literature in english, Books on science in english
Type: Books - paperback
Pages: 259
ISBN/EAN: 9780147517609