A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization

ISBN-13: 9780147517609 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str.

Robert Evans

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"Mixing science, humor, and grossly irresponsible self-experimentation, Evans paints a vivid picture of how bad habits built the world we know and love."
David Wong, author of John Dies at the End
History has never been more fun or more intoxicating.
Guns, germs, and steel might have transformed us from hunter-gatherers into modern man, but booze, sex, trash talk, and tripping built our civilization.Crackededitor Robert Evans brings his signature dogged research and lively insight to uncover the many and magnificent ways vice has influenced history, from the prostitute-turned-empress who scored a major victory for women s rights to the beer that helped create and destroy South America's first empire. And Evans goes deeper than simply writing about ancient debauchery; he recreates some of history's most enjoyable (and most painful) vices and includes guides so you can follow along at home. You ll learn how to:
Trip like a Greek philosopher.
Rave like your Stone Age ancestors.
Get drunk like a Sumerian.
Smoke a nose pipe like a pre Columbian Native American.
A celebration of the brave, drunken pioneers who built our civilization one seemingly bad decision at a time, A Brief History of Vice explores a side of the past that mainstream history books prefer to hide."

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Mixing science, humor, and grossly irresponsible self-experimentation, Evans paints a vivid picture of how bad habits built the world we know and love. David Wong, author of John Dies at the End
 
Evans's goal is to investigate and illuminate the human tradition of merriment and debauchery, which he does with tact, humor, and insight. Publishers Weekly
 
An engaging and compelling assemblage of pop culture and cultural anthropology (pop cultural anthropology?), an exploration of the growth of civilization via things that our own culture has in many ways declared taboo. This is one of the more entertaining books, fiction or nonfiction, or whatever, that you'll read this year. Allen Adams, The Maine Edge

O autorze

Robert Evans is an editorial manager at Cracked.com. His articles rack up an average of sixty-four million views a year. He was a contributor to the bestselling You Might Be a Zombie and The De-Textbook.