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Author Palley, Reese.

Title Concrete : a seven-thousand-year history / Reese Palley
Edition First edition
Published New York : Quantuck Lane Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., [2010]
©2010

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Description 232 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Contents The great agglomeration -- Pyramidiots -- Between Egypt and Rome -- Roman concrete and its impact on world history -- Vitruvius and Giocondo, 1445-1525 -- Joseph Moxon, 1627-1691 -- Concrete in the eighteenth century -- The twentieth century -- The wizard of Menlo Park -- What is art? -- Flagler's folly -- A woeful century -- The industry -- Lunar transit -- Epilogue
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-228) and index
Subject Concrete -- History.
LC no. 2009037430
ISBN 9781593720391
1593720394