A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization Evans Robert (2016)

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 womens rights to the beer that helped create and destroy South Americas first empire. Evans goes beyond ancient debauchery, recreating some of historys 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.