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1	Poor People more books like this by William T Vollmann add to wishlist A National Book Award-winning author travels the globe and meets with impoverished individuals where they live to document firsthand the causes and effects of poverty. Two 16-page photo inserts. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.17! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Europe Central more books like this by William T Vollmann add to wishlist William T. Vollmann turns his attention to Central Europe, setting this 800-page novel in 1941, when the German army was moving into Russia, where it would soon meet major defeats. Vollmann incorporates not only actual events but real people (they include Käthe Kollwitz, Shostakovich, and the German general Paulus), along with figures from German ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Uncentering the Earth: Copernicus and the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres more books like this by William T Vollmann add to wishlist As contemporary cosmologists explore the universe's vastness and the nearly insignificant role mankind plays in it, the repercussions from Copernicus's radical views continue to resound. The author provides an enlightening and readable explication of Copernicus's book and epoch, and the momentous clash between the two. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means more books like this by William T Vollmann add to wishlist An abridged addition of the National Book Critic Circle Award finalist author's three-thousand-page, seven-volume work is a meditation on the possible justification of violence that is based on his war-zone observations and draws on the theories of numerous philosophers, theologians, military strategists, activists, and other thinkers. Reprint. 20, see all copies from $2.00! new only from $4.89! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Royal Family more books like this by William T Vollmann add to wishlist Henry Tyler, a private detective on the skids, is devastated when the woman he loves--his brother's wife, Irene--commits suicide. In the depths of grief, he enters an underworld accompanied by Irene's ghost, and encounters the usual colorful array of prostitutes, bums, vigilantes, and lowlifes that make up the curious world of William T. Vollman. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Europe Central: 7 more books like this by William T Vollmann add to wishlist William T. Vollmann turns his attention to Central Europe, setting this 800-page novel in 1941, when the German army was moving into Russia, where it would soon meet major defeats. Vollmann incorporates not only actual events but real people (they include Käthe Kollwitz, Shostakovich, and the German general Paulus), along with figures from German ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Fathers and Crows more books like this by William T Vollmann add to wishlist The is the heavily illustrated, annotated, and diagrammed second volume in the "Seven Dreams" series, a chronicle of the conflicts between North American Indians and Europeans. In this volume Vollmann is concerned with the 17th-century French missionaries and Jesuits who land in what will become Canada and the native Huron tribes that they find ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $7.66! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Manufacturing planning and control systems more books like this by Thomas E Vollmann add to wishlist Updated to reflect the latest ideas and practices in planning and control systems, this text details recent advances in producing goods and services more efficiently. Concepts explored include integrating marketing and historical forecast information, and capacity management in process industries. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.14! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Open All Night more books like this by William T Vollmann, Ken Miller (Photographer) add to wishlist Photographs by Ken Miller of people who inhabit the dark side of America. Pictures of skinheads, electroshock patients, addicts, and prostitutes are accompanied by text from novelist William T. Vollman, who often covers similar themes in his fiction see all copies from $4.54! new only from $5.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Riding Toward Everywhere more books like this by William T Vollmann add to wishlist Vollmann is a relentlessly curious, endlessly sensitive, and unequivocally adventurous examiner of human existence. In his work, he offers readers a gorgeously written immersion in the trainhopping, hobo life. 66 b&w photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	The Rifles: 8 more books like this by William T Vollmann add to wishlist Vaulting through time to another flashpoint in the long struggle between Indians and Europeans, Vollmann's visionary fictional history now focuses on the white explorers of 150 years ago, desperately dreaming of forging a Northwest Passage. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Butterfly Stories more books like this by William T. Vollmann add to wishlist The story of a poorly adjusted suburban youth called "the butterfly boy" takes him through an increasingly sordid world to Cambodia, where he falls in love with a prostitute named Vanna. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Atlas: 8 by William T Vollmann add to wishlist A collection of brief, impressionistic stories set in locales that range from New York to Sarajevo and examine the complexities of history and politics from the perspective of an alien. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.85! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	The Ice-Shirt more books like this by William T Vollmann add to wishlist The first volume in Vollmann's "Seven Dreams" series, in which he chronicles the the conflicts between North American Indians and the European colonists. Here he is concerned with contact between the Norse Viking invaders and the Inuit tribes that took place in the 10th century. Also included are his own observations of traveling in sub-Arctic ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.41! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Whores for Gloria more books like this by William T Vollmann add to wishlist The protagonist, an alcoholic Vietnam veteran named Jimmy, devotes his government check and his waking hours to the search for a beautiful and mystical street walker named Gloria, a woman who may not exist save in Jimmy's rambling dreams. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.55! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The rifles more books like this by William T Vollmann add to wishlist Following THE ICE-SHIRT and FATHERS AND CROWS, a further story in the seven volume history of North America. A re-imagining of the doomed Franklin expedition of the 1840s to find a north-west passage, including the story of a modern-day alter ego of Franklin who has a similar obsession with the Arctic. see all copies from $2.40! new only from $5.29! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Rising Up and Rising Down more books like this by William T. Vollmann add to wishlist A labor of seventeen years, Vollman's first book of non-fiction since 1992's An Afghanistan Picture Show is a gravely urgent invitation to look back at the world's long, bloody path and find some threads of meaning, wisdom, and guidance to plot a moral course. From the street violence of prostitutes and junkies to the centuries-long battles ... see all copies from $32.11! new only from $32.11! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	You Bright and Risen Angels more books like this by William T Vollmann add to wishlist Vollmann's first novel was infamously composed while he spent his nights sleeping under his desk at a crushingly dull job in California's Silicon Valley. He claims that he lived off of the candy in the office vending machine while concealing himself from the nightly crews of janitors. The novel that announced the beginning of his prodigious career ... see all copies from $5.10! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Expelled from Eden: A William T. Vollmann Reader more books like this by William T. Vollmann (Editor), Larry McCaffery (Editor), Michael Hemmingson (Editor) add to wishlist William T. Vollmann is one of our greatest living writers. Masterworks such as You Bright and Risen Angels, The Royal Family, and Rising Up and Rising Downhis latest work, a stunning 3,300-page tour-de-forcehave launched him into the literary stratosphere. He stands today as one of America's leading contenders for a future Nobel Prize in ... see all copies from $2.12! new only from $9.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Manufacturing Planning and Control Systems for Supply Chain Management more books like this by Thomas E Vollmann, William L Berry, D Clay Whybark add to wishlist This book is the standard preparatory text for APICS certification exams! It discusses how to use the latest MPC techniques to improve your supply chain effectiveness. In today's manufacturing environment, decisions must be made immediately and with little time for on-the-spot research or second-guessing. More than at any time in the past, ... see all copies from $50.97! new only from $50.97! \| SVS
21 view cover	Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epitaphs more books like this by William T Vollmann add to wishlist Stories , set all over the world, about Vollman's usual suspects: hookers and their pimps, skinheads and addicts. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Atlas more books like this by William T Vollmann add to wishlist Set in locales from Phnom Penh to Sarajevo, from Jerusalem to New York, and provocatively combining autobiography with invention, these 53 interconnected tales examine poverty, violence, and loss, even as they celebrate the beauty of landscape, the thrill of the alien, and the infinitely precious pain of love. see all copies from $4.30! new only from $8.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Argall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith more books like this by William T Vollmann add to wishlist In the newest novel in his Seven Dreams series, Vollmann alternates between extravagant Elizabethan language and gritty realism in an attempt to dig beneath the legend surrounding Pocahontas, John Smith, and the founding of the Jamestown colony in Virginia--as well as the betrayals, disappointments, and atrocities behind it. Illustrations. see all copies from $3.57! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24	Whores for Gloria more books like this by Gloria Vollman, William T. Vollmann add to wishlist The protagonist, an alcoholic Vietnam veteran named Jimmy, devotes his government check and his waking hours to the search for a beautiful and mystical street walker named Gloria, a woman who may not exist save in Jimmy's rambling dreams. see all copies from $3.24! new only from $25.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
25	You bright and risen angels a cartoon more books like this by William T. Vollmann add to wishlist Vollmann's first novel was infamously composed while he spent his nights sleeping under his desk at a crushingly dull job in California's Silicon Valley. He claims that he lived off of the candy in the office vending machine while concealing himself from the nightly crews of janitors. The novel that announced the beginning of his prodigious career ... see all copies from $9.30! signed copies \| first editions

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