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The Lehigh Valley Cement Industry

By: Carol M. Front,Joan Minton Christopher,Martha Capwell Fox

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The Lehigh Valley Cement Industry

By: Carol M. Front,Joan Minton Christopher,Martha Capwell Fox

America's portland cement industry began in the Lehigh Valley. The rich deposit of limestone known as the Jacksonburg Formation arcs through the valley from Berks County, Pennsylvania, to Warren County, New Jersey, and today it still provides the raw material for the Lehigh district's famous high-quality portland cement. Cement from the Lehigh Valley built America's skyscrapers, dams, and highways. The Lehigh Valley Cement Industry documents not only the quarries and cement mills but also the dozens of companies that sprang up to supply and support the industry. The photographs also tell the stories of the people who formed the cement communities—the entrepreneurs, executives, engineers, and immigrants whose legacies live on in the five multinational companies still making cement in the valley.

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138

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738538558

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9780738538556

Blue Nights (Enhanced Edition)

By: Joan Didion

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Blue Nights (Enhanced Edition)

By: Joan Didion

This enhanced eBook edition of Blue Nights includes three short films directed by Griffin Dunne and starring Joan Didion. Each film blends Didion's incisive prose with images and mementos from her daughter's life. From one of our most powerful writers, Blue Nights is a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion examines her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness, and growing old. Blue Nights opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back to Quintana’s wedding in New York seven years before. Today would be her wedding anniversary. This fact triggers vivid snapshots of Quintana’s childhood—in Malibu, in Brentwood, at school in Holmby Hills. Reflecting on her daughter but also on her role as a parent, Didion asks the candid questions any parent might about how she feels she failed either because cues were not taken or perhaps displaced. “How could I have missed what was clearly there to be seen?” Finally, perhaps we all remain unknown to each other. Seamlessly woven in are incidents Didion sees as underscoring her own age, something she finds hard to acknowledge, much less accept. Blue Nights—the long, light evening hours that signal the summer solstice, “the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but also its warning”—like The Year of Magical Thinking before it, is an iconic book of incisive and electric honesty, haunting and profoundly moving.

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209

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Knopf

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0307961370

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9780307961372

Essential Supplements for Women

What Every Woman Should Know about Vitamins, Minerals, Enzymes & Amino Acids

By: Carolyn Reuben,Joan Priestly

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Essential Supplements for Women

What Every Woman Should Know about Vitamins, Minerals, Enzymes & Amino Acids

By: Carolyn Reuben,Joan Priestly

This groundbreaking guide explains how vitamin and mineral supplements are useful for combating common female ailments, for preventing major diseases, and enhancing good health. Contains information on the most suitable dosages for many specific health conditions.

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196

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Perigee Trade

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0399514376

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9780399514371

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The Lehigh Valley Cement Industry

The Lehigh Valley Cement Industry

Blue Nights (Enhanced Edition)

Blue Nights (Enhanced Edition)

Essential Supplements for Women

Essential Supplements for Women

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