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"Including interviews with experts and original experimentation, a part history, part how-to guide explores some of humanity's most prominent vices and provides an explanation for how each of them helped humans rise to the top of the food chain. By the editorial manager of Cracked,"--NoveList.
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A (brief) history of vice: how bad behavior built civilization
2016, Plume
in English
0147517605 9780147517609
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Table of Contents
Mother Nature: History's First Bartender
Music: The First Drug?
Celebrity Worship and the Greek Who Predicted TMZ
How Drunken Parties Birthed (and Broke) Civilizations
How Bad Behavior Saved Civilization
Godstitution: The Hidden History of Sex Work
Drugs, the Birth of Religion, and How to Trip Like a Philosopher
Ancient Greek and the Birth of Science
Tobacco and Marijuana: Twins Displaced by Time
Drugged Cultures and Acid Wars
The Shrub That Conquered the World
The Coffee-Drinking Bad Boys of Ancient Islam
How We Evolved to Be Kinky
The Hijacking of Genius: A Deep History of Designer Drugs
The Curious History of Salamander Brandy.
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