I found some interesting CV examples. Graphic designers niche mostly.

Self promotion infographic calendar for 2012. by Martin Oberhäuser. Each color/ring represents one month of the year. Federal holidays (United States) are highlighted with an icon and pink color. The tabular view at the bottom offers some space to fill in appointments or birthdays.

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Buy the calendar here!
Download the desktop wallpaper here!

Michel de Nostredame (1503 – 1566), usually Latinised to Nostradamus, was a French apothecary and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies that have since become famous worldwide. He is best known for his book Les Propheties (“The Prophecies”), the first edition of which appeared in 1555. Since the publication of this book, which has rarely been out of print since his death, Nostradamus has attracted a following that, along with the popular press, credits him with predicting many major world events.

Most academic sources maintain that the associations made between world events and Nostradamus’s quatrains are largely the result of misinterpretations or mistranslations (sometimes deliberate) or else are so tenuous as to render them useless as evidence of any genuine predictive power. Moreover, none of the sources listed offers any evidence that anyone has ever interpreted any of Nostradamus’s quatrains specifically enough to allow a clear identification of any event in advance.

There are numerous popular books, and thousands of private websites, suggesting not only that the Prophecies are genuine but that Nostradamus was a true prophet. Due to the subjective nature of these interpretations, however, no two of them agree on exactly what he predicted, whether for the past or for the future. Many of these do agree, though, that particular predictions refer, for example, to the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler, both world wars, and the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Download: Nostradamus – The Prophecies

This book is a must have for every sound studio archive. Although many things are digital now, the basics are still the same.

Download : The recording and reprouction of sound by Oliver Read [second edition 1952]

Franz Kafka – The Metamorphosis, Published in 1912

Download: Franz Kafka – The Metamorphosis
Online rading: gutenberg.org

The Complete Edition of Murphy’s Laws

Download: The Complete Edition of Murphy’s Laws
Online reading: monitor.hr

The Book of the Dead is the modern name of an ancient Egyptian funerary text, used from the beginning of the New Kingdom (around 1550 BC) to around 50 BC.[1] The original Egyptian name for the text, transliterated rw nw prt m hrw[2] is translated as “Book of Coming Forth by Day”.[3] Another translation would be “Book of emerging forth into the Light”. The text consists of a number of magic spells intended to assist a dead person’s journey through the Duat, or underworld, and into the afterlife.

The Book of the Dead was part of a tradition of funerary texts which includes the earlier Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts. Some of the spells included were drawn from these older works and date to the 3rd millennium BC. Other spells were composed later in Egyptian history, dating to the Third Intermediate Period (11th to 7th centuries BC).
There was no single or canonical Book of the Dead. The surviving papyri contain a varying selection of religious and magical texts and vary considerably in their illustration.

Some people seem to have commissioned their own copies of the Book of the Dead, perhaps choosing the spells they thought most vital in their own progression to the afterlife. The Book of the Dead was most commonly written in hieroglyphic or hieratic script on a papyrus scroll, and often illustrated with vignettes depicting the deceased and their journey into the afterlife. The Book of the Dead was placed in the coffin or burial chamber of the deceased. A number of the spells which made up the Book were also inscribed on tomb walls and sarcophagi.

Online reading: sacred-texts.com
Download: The Egyptian Book Of Dead

My inventions aka The Strange Life Of Nikola Tesla.

My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla (ISBN 0910077002) is a book compiled and edited by Ben Johnston detailing the work of Nikola Tesla. The content was largely drawn from a series of articles that Nikola Tesla had written for Electrical Experimenter magazine in 1919, at which time Tesla was 63 years old.

Download: The Strange Life Of Nikola Tesla
Online reading: rastko.rs
Online reading: www.tfcbooks.com (nearly unabridged version of My Inventions in ASCII text, MS Word, PDF, and HTML formats)

Source: www.tfcbooks.com