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020 _a9781408171905 (pbk.)
020 _a1408171902 (pbk.)
035 _a(OCoLC)794815873
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082 0 4 _a612.36
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100 1 _aAlbee, Sarah.
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245 1 0 _aPoo! :
_ba history of the world from the bottom up /
_cby Sarah Albee ; illustrated by Sam Church.
260 _aLondon :
_bA. & C. Black,
_c2012.
263 _a201209
300 _a170 pages;
_billustrations (some colour);
_c26 cm.
505 _aPoo 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.
520 _aThroughout 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.
650 0 _910396
_aFaeces
_vMiscellanea
_vJuvenile literature.
700 1 _aChurch, Sam,
_d1975-
_910397
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_cJNONFIC
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