Getting to Know Your Toilet: The Disgusting Story Behind Your Home's Strangest Feature

Tracing the history of human waste disposal from ancient cesspits to modern flush toilets, this book explains how today's plumbing works and why the toilet is such a strange but essential feature. It covers the sanitation problems early societies faced and how the invention of the toilet resolved them. With a mix of factual information and some disgusting details, the narrative offers an informative look at an everyday device.