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Courland, Robert, 1952-
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Concrete -- History.
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Concrete planet : the strange and fascinating story of the world's most common man-made material / Robert Courland.
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Courland, Robert, 1952-
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2011.
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Concrete -- History.
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9781616144814 (cloth : alk. paper) :
1616144815 (cloth : alk. paper)
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396 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Foreword / Dennis Smith -- Origins -- Towering ziggurats, concrete pyramids, and Minoan mazes -- The Gold Standard -- Concrete in Mesoamerica and Renaissance Europe -- The development of modern concrete -- Refinements, reinforcement, and proliferation -- The wizard and the architect -- The concretization of the world -- The bad news -- The good news.
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"...Filled with incredible stories, fascinating characters, surprising facts, and an array of intriguing insights into the building material that forms the basis of the infrastructure on which we depend" (Publishers].
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