A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization Audiobook (Free)

A celebration of the fearless, drunken pioneers who built our civilization one seemingly poor decision at the same time, A BRIEF OVERVIEW of Vice explores a part of the past that mainstream history books prefer to hide. History hasn’t been even more fun-or more intoxicating.

Guns, bacteria, and steel might have transformed us from hunter-gatherers into contemporary man, but booze, sex, garbage chat, and tripping built our civilization. Damaged editor Robert Evans brings his personal dogged in regards to a Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Constructed Civilization study and lively insight to uncover the countless and magnificent ways vice has affected history, through the prostitute-turned-empress who obtained a major victory for women’s privileges to the ale that helped create-and destroy-South America’s initial empire. And Evans goes deeper than writing about ancient debauchery; he recreates some of history’s most pleasant (& most painful) vices and contains guides which means you can stick to along in the home.

You’ll understand how to:

• Trip just like a Greek philosopher.

• Rave like your Rock Age ancestors.

• Obtain drunk like a Sumerian.

• Smoke a nose tube like a pre-Columbian Local American.

“Mixing science, humor, and grossly irresponsible self-experimentation, Evans paints a brilliant picture of how bad habits built the world we realize and love.”-David Wong, author of John Dies by the end