Personal branding isn’t very different than product branding, except that the entity being branded is you. Just like Nike uses its brand to attach a certain personality and uniqueness to the shoes it sells, your personal brand is made up of the qualities and unique traits you relay about yourself. Your personal brand represents the way you want other people to think about you.
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210 pages | Helen Waldstein Wilkes (February 2010) | ISBN: 978-1897425541 | PDF | 5.8 MB
On March 15, 1939, Helen Waldstein’s father snatched his stamped exit visa from a distracted clerk to escape from Prague with his wife and child. As the Nazis closed in on a war-torn Czechoslovakia, only letters from their extended family could reach Canada through the barriers of conflict. The Waldstein family received these letters as they made their lives on a southern Ontario farm, where they learned to be Canadian and forget their Jewish roots.
378 pages | AU Press (2010) | ISBN: 1897425570 | PDF | 5.5 MB
This book makes several remarkable claims: the greatest cultural achievement in the Western Canadian mountain region may be what has been preserved, not what has been developed. Protecting the spine of the Rocky Mountains will preserve crucial ecological functions. A must-read for those who appreciate Western Canada's breathtaking landscape.
OF THE 100 LARGEST ELECTRIC POWER PRODUCERS IN THE UNITED STATES.
Th is report is the product of a collaborative eff ort among Ceres, the Natural Resources Defense
Council (NRDC) and Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG).
No-fault automobile-insurance regimes were the culmination of decades of dissatisfaction with the use of the traditional tort system for compensating victims of automobile accidents. They promised quicker, fairer, less-contentious, and, it was hoped, less-expensive resolution of automobile-accident injuries. This monograph considers how these plans have fared.
446 pages | Ludwig von Mises Institute (2007) | ASIN: B001D0MJWS | PDF | 20.3 MB
Franklin D. Roosevelt is the most sainted president of the 20th century. You have to look far and wide to discover the truth about his character and policies. But as John T. Flynn noted in this landmark 1948 volume, FDR actually prolonged the Great Depression and deliberately dragged the country into a war that seriously compromised American liberties.
Flynn wrote a devastating indictment. If the contents of the book were widely known, the monuments erected in FDR’s honor would be torn down forthwith.
All of this requires leadership. Which is why the book “State of the eUnion” is so important and timely. John Gøtze and Christian Bering Pedersen have assembled a stellar cast of thinkers and practitioners who are pioneering the new possibilities for new paradigms in government and governance. Beginning with thoughtful definitional papers about Government 2.0, the book explores the topic of “Open Government” which as much as any topic is central to the new thinking.
148 pages | The Aspen Institute (October 2, 2009) | ISBN: 0898435110 | PDF | 1.4 MB
“Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age” examines the information needs of the 21st century American citizen and proposes 15 public policy recommendations for sustaining democracy in the Digital Age.
352 pages | Penguin Press HC (March 25, 2004) | ISBN: 1594200068 | PDF | 2.1 MB
Lawrence Lessig, “the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era” (The New Yorker), masterfully argues that never before in human history has the power to control creative progress been so concentrated in the hands of the powerful few, the so-called Big Media.
368 pages | Random House (October 30, 2001) | ISBN: 0375505784 | PDF | 1.3 MB
The Internet revolution has come. Some say it has gone. In The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the revolution has produced a counterrevolution of potentially devastating power and effect. Creativity once flourished because the Net protected a commons on which widest range of innovators could experiment. But now, manipulating the law for their own purposes, corporations have established themselves as virtual gatekeepers of the Net while Congress, in the pockets of media magnates, has rewritten copyright and patent laws to stifle creativity and progress.
