The porcelain god : a social history of the toilet

Elvis died on one, and Charles V was born on one. Although we use them every day, most of us know very little about toilets. This unique history contends that civilization began, not with the written word, but with the toilet. As the ultimate bathroom book, The Porcelain God offers an amusing diversion. Traces the history of the toilet, from the third millennium B.C., evolving over 5,000 years into the high-tech twentieth-century toilets of the Japanese Horan proposes that civilization began when "deposition on the ground" ended. This is an account of that progress. c. Book News Inc