Planning for Everything: The Design of Paths and Goals by Peter Morville

Planning for Everything: The Design of Paths and Goals by Peter Morville

From debut novelist Philip Bowne, winner of the Spotlight First Novel prize, comes this explosive coming-of-age odyssey that catapults 18-year-old Billy Reed across Europe. Billy has just left school and is desperate to escape middle England. It's 2016, and as a grave-digger, he's working the ultimate dead-end job. To make matters worse, he's a virgin, and there's no hope of him meeting a girl any time soon. The only women at work are in coffins.

Billy's home life isn't any better. In the evenings, he observes his dysfunctional family: his grandad is engaged to a woman half his age, his dad's become obsessed with boxing, and he suspects his mum is having an affair. All the while, celebrities are dropping like flies and Britain is waiting for the EU referendum. Everything is changing, and Billy hates it.

Billy's life gets a jump start when he falls in love with Eva, an older girl from Switzerland, that's passionate about Russian literature, Gary Numan, windfarms and chai tea. To Billy's despair, Eva travels back to her home in Switzerland at the end of summer. But he won't give up on her that easily. He gambles everything for a chance to be with Eva again.

When things start to go wrong, Billy's journey across Europe involves hitch-hiking with truckers, walking with refugees, and an encounter with suicidal cows. But the further he goes, the harder it is to be sure what he's chasing - and what he's running from.

Lou Rosenfeld is an independent information architecture consultant. He has been instrumental in helping establish the field of information architecture, and in articulating the role and value of librarianship within the field. Lou played a leading role in organizing and programming the first three information architecture conferences (both ASIS&T Summits and IA 2000). He also presents and moderates at such venues as CHI, COMDEX, Intranets, and the web design conferences produced by Miller Freeman, C-net and Thunder Lizard. He teaches tutorials as part of the Nielsen Norman Group User Experience Conference.

Peter Morville is President and Founder of Semantic Studios, a leading information architecture and knowledge management consulting firm. From 1994 to 2001, Peter was Chief Executive Officer and a co-owner of Argus Associates, a pioneering information architecture design firm with world-class clients including 3Com, AT&T, Compaq, Ernst & Young, Ford, IBM, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, and the Weather Channel. He also served as Executive Director of the ACIA. Over the past 8 years, Peter has written and spoken extensively about information architecture, business strategy, and knowledge management. He has been interviewed by Business Week, Knowledge Management magazine, MSNBC, and the Wall Street Journal.

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ISBN 13	9780692059951
ISBN 10	0692059954
Title	Planning for Everything: The Design of Paths and Goals
Author	Peter Morville
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Semantic Studios
Year published	2018-02-08
Number of pages	140
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