Poo! : a history of the world from the bottom up / by Sarah Albee ; illustrated by Sam Church.

Poo matters -- Bad plumbing? Bad news -- The origin of faeces -- An ionic twist: poor plumbing in ancient Greece -- When in Rome, poo as the Romans do -- The age of shovelry: poop in the Middle Ages -- The reeking Renaissance -- I smell London, I smell France -- All dressed up but nowhere to go -- Eighteenth-century England: flushing away troubles -- The early 1800s: the great unwashed move to town -- Vileness in the Victorian era -- Cholera: the disease that changed the world -- The revolting river -- The age of plumbers -- Sludge, American style -- Modern sanitation -- Toilet talk.

Throughout history, civilisation has been shaped not only by human design, but by human poo, or rather, by how humans decided to get rid of it! Poo is a fascinating exploration of how human waste and it's disposal has changed the world.