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  • South Street

    by Barbara Mensch ...
    South Street is Barbara G. Mensch's evocative tribute to the lost world of Lower Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market. For more than a century, a colorful, tightly knit community of fishmongers, many of them recent immigrants and children of immigrants, thrived under the base of the Brooklyn Bridge. Resistant to government regulations and corporate encroachment, these men lived in a closed, internally ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Beyond the Numbers

    A Reader on Population, Consumption and the Environment

    by J. Boutwell, G. Rathjens, Judy Norsigian, Sharon Stanton Russell, David E. Horlacher, Adrienne Germain, Jane Ordway, Judith Bruce, Anrudh Jain, Barbara S. Mensch, Christopher Elias, Nafis Sadik, Nancy Yu Ping Chen, Hania Zlotnick, Steven Sinding, John Ross, Allan Rosenfield, Lynn Freedman, Cynthia B. Lloyd, Michael S. Teitelbaum, Ruth Macklin, Don Edwards, Frank Sharry, Jodi Jacobson, Frances Kissling, Peter J. Donaldson, Amy Ong Tsui, F. Landis MacKellar, Carl Haub, Martha Farnsworth Riche, Sharon L. Camp, Judith Lichtenberg, L. Anathea Brooks, Robert Fox, Ruth Dixon Mueller, Denese Shirvington, Susan Power Bratton, Judith Heerwagen, Fatima Vianna Mello, Mahmoud F. Fathalla, M. Teresita de Barbieri, Russel Barsh, Teresa Chandler, Emma Rothschild, Thomas F. Homer-Dixon ...
    Beyond the Numbers presents a thought-provoking series of essays by leading authorities on issues of population and consumption. The essays both define the poles of debate and explore common ground beyond the polarized rhetoric.Specific chapters consider each of the broad topics addressed at the International Conference on Population and Development held in September 1994 in Cairo, Egypt. The ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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