| CONCRETE PLANET The Strange and Fascinating Story of the World's Most Common Man-Made Material Robert Courland Dennis Smith (Fwd.) Amherst: Prometheus Books, November 2011 |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-61614-481-4 | ||||
| ISBN 1-61614-481-5 | 396pp. | HC/BWI | $? | |
| List of Illustrations | 7 |
| Acknowledgments | 11 |
| Foreword by Dennis Smith | 15 |
| Introduction | 21 |
| Chapter 1. Origins | 25 |
| Chapter 2. Towering Ziggurats, Concrete Pyramids, and Minoan Mazes | 55 |
| Chapter 3. The Gold Standard | 71 |
| Chapter 4. Concrete in Mesoamerica and Renaissance Europe | 137 |
| Chapter 5. The Development of Modern Concrete | 143 |
| Chapter 6. Refinements, Reinforcement, and Proliferation | 211 |
| Chapter 7. The Wizard and the Architect | 235 |
| Chapter 8. The Concretization of the World | 273 |
| Chapter 9. The Bad News | 301 |
| Chapter 10. The Good News | 331 |
| Notes | 343 |
| Index | 369 |
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