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List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Dennis Smith

Introduction

Chapter 1. Origins

Chapter 2. Towering Ziggurats, Concrete Pyramids, and Minoan Mazes

Chapter 3. The Gold Standard

Chapter 4. Concrete in Mesoamerica and Renaissance Europe

Chapter 5. The Development of Modern Concrete

Chapter 6. Refinements, Reinforcement, and Proliferation

Chapter 7. The Wizard and the Architect

Chapter 8. The Concretization of the World

Chapter 9. The Bad News

Chapter 10. The Good News

Notes

Index