A Brief History of Vice

How Bad Behavior Built Civilization

Robert Evans

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Plume
17 October 2016

Humour

From an editor at the popular humor site Cracked.com and one of the writers of the bestselling You Might Be a Zombie and The De-Textbook, a rollicking look at vice throughout history, complete with instructions for re-creating debauchery at home.

A celebration of the brave, drunken pioneers who built our civilization one seemingly bad decision at a time,A Brief History of Viceexplores a side of the past that mainstream history books prefer to hide.

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-

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Trip like a Greek philosopher.

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Rave like your Stone Age ancestors.

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Get drunk like a Sumerian.

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Smoke a nose pipe like a pre-Columbian Native American.

""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 ofJohn Dies at the End

By: Robert Evans
Imprint: Plume
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 215g
ISBN: 9780147517609
ISBN 10: 0147517605
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 17 October 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 bestsellingYou Might Be a ZombieandThe De-Textbook.

Reviews for A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization

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