Author: William Vollmann
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: imperial
Number of Pages: 1200
Published: 2010-10-26
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0143118404
ISBN-13: 9780143118404

From the author of Europe Central, a journalistic tour de force along the Mexican-American border. For generations of migrant workers, Imperial Country has held the promise of paradise and the reality of hell. It sprawls across a stirring accidental sea, across the deserts, date groves and labor camps of Southeastern California, right across the border into Mexico. In this eye-opening book, William T. Vollmann takes us deep into the heart of this haunted region, exploring polluted rivers and guarded factories and talking with everyone from Mexican migrant workers to border patrolmen. Teeming

Author: William T. Vollmann
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: thirteen, epitaphs, stories
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1994-07-07
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0802133959
ISBN-13: 9780802133953

The invisible lives of prostitutes, pimps, pornographers, skinheads, and crack addicts are revealed in stories from the dark edge of contemporary life, combining elements of travel writing and reportage, autobiography and anecdotes, and told in a unique, searing voice. Original.

Author: William T. Vollmann
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: family, royal
Number of Pages: 800
Published: 2001-08-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 014100200X
ISBN-13: 9780141002002

Since the publication of his first book in 1987, William T. Vollmann has established himself as one of the most fascinating and unconventional literary figures on the scene today. Named one of the twenty best writers under forty by the New Yorker in 1999, Vollmann received the best reviews of his career for The Royal Family, a searing fictional trip through a San Francisco underworld populated by prostitutes, drug addicts, and urban spiritual seekers. Part biblical allegory and part skewed postmodern crime novel, The Royal Family is a vivid and unforgettable work of fiction by one of todayR

Author: William Vollmann
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: central, europe
Number of Pages: 832
Published: 2005-11-14
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0143036599
ISBN-13: 9780143036593

In this magnificent work of fiction, William T. Vollmann turns his trenchant eye to the authoritarian cultures of Germany and the USSR in the twentieth century. Assembling a composite portrait of these two warring leviathans and the terrible age they defined, the narrative intertwines experiences both real and fictional—a young German who joins the SS to expose its crimes, two generals who collaborate with the enemy for different reasons, the Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich laboring under Stalinist oppression. Through these and other lives, Vollmann offers a daring and mesmer

Author: William T. Vollmann
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: people, poor
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2008-02-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0060878843
ISBN-13: 9780060878849

That was the simple yet groundbreaking question William T. Vollmann asked in cities and villages around the globe. The result of Vollmann’s fearless inquiry is a view of poverty unlike any previously offered. Poor People struggles to confront poverty in all its hopelessness and brutality, its pride and abject fear, its fierce misery and quiet resignation, allowing the poor to explain the causes and consequences of their impoverishment in their own cultural, social, and religious terms. With intense compassion and a scrupulously unpatronizing eye, Vollmann invites his readers to recogn

Authors:Thomas Vollmann, William Berry, David Clay Whybark
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwi
Keywords: chain, management, supply, control, planning, manufacturing
Number of Pages: 936
Published: 2004-02-05
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0072299908
ISBN-13: 9780072299908

Vollman, Berry, Whybark and Jacobs’, Manufacturing Planning & Control Systems, 5/e provides comprehensive real world based coverage of the concepts, tools, and methods used to manage and control manufacturing systems. This major revision contains four entirely new chapters and four thoroughly upgraded to nearly original content. ERP system coverage and the impact of them in the field is covered now in a new introductory chapter (4) as well as being integrated heavily into many other chapters from Sales and Operations Planning (3) to Advanced Scheduling Systems (16). Manufacturing Plannin

Authors:Thomas Vollmann, William Berry, David Clay Whybark, F
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: management, definitive, guide, professionals, chain, supply, planning, control, systems, manufacturing
Number of Pages: 598
Published: 2004-04-01
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 007144033X
ISBN-13: 9780071440332