books by Barbara Mensch (numbers street reader)

books by Barbara Mensch

books:

Beyond the Numbers: A Reader on Population, Consumption and the Environment

1 review

Island Press, 1994

Laurie Mazur is brilliant
If population issues are a turn-on, this is the book for you. Mazur gathers an enormous wealth of fascinating information and distills it into a readable and enlightening format. Sorry, but you will learn something important here.

South Street

1 review
Barbara Mensch

Columbia University Press, 2007

A work of impressive scholarship
Profusely illustrated with illustrative photos, "South Street" by Barbara G. Mensch is a history of New York City's famous Fullerton Fish Market. Barbara's photography combines nicely with her lively and informative stories of a colorful community of fishmongers who worked together, resisted outside influences of government and corporations, and basically policed themselves. "South Street" ...