An edition of A (brief) history of vice (2016)

A (brief) history of vice

how bad behavior built civilization

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An edition of A (brief) history of vice (2016)

A (brief) history of vice

how bad behavior built civilization

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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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Plume
Language
English
Pages
259

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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.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
179/.809
Library of Congress
BJ1534 .E93 2016, BJ1534.E93 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 259 pages
Number of pages
259

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL27222089M
ISBN 10
0147517605
ISBN 13
9780147517609
LCCN
2015048289
OCLC/WorldCat
930256015

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Work ID
OL20042056W

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