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Concrete : a seven-thousand-year history / Reese Palley.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection TA439 .P245 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Palley, Reese.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Concrete--History.
- Concrete.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 232 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Quantuck Lane Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., [2010]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-228) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781593720391
- 1593720394
- OCLC:
- 440281599
- Publisher Number:
- 99939891436
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