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  The Parva Naturalia On Memory

  Aristotle

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  On Memory is a work of the Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle, included in the collection Parva Naturalia.
  The Parva Naturalia (a conventional Latin title first used by Giles of Rome: "short treatises on nature") are a collection of seven works by Aristotle, which discuss natural phenomena involving the body and the soul. They form parts of Aristotle's biology.

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  Summary of Anthony Hopkins's We...

  Milkyway Media

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  Listen now to get the key ideas from Anthony Hopkins's We Did OK, Kid. 
   
  In We Did OK, Kid (2025), Oscar-winning actor Anthony Hopkins reflects on his remarkable career and journey to sobriety. Raised in Wales, amid hardship and emotional toughness, he struggled in school and was dismissed as a failure. A childhood encounter with Hamlet sparked his passion for acting, leading him to the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and legendary performances. Anthony candidly explores his personal struggles, including addiction and fractured relationships, and how sobriety reshaped his life. His memoir offers an intimate look at the man behind some of cinema’s most unforgettable roles.

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  Eddie Rickenbacker and Dick...

  Editors Charles River

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  At first, airplane improvements occurred in an ad hoc, almost accidental manner during World War I. However, when pilots’ mounting of armaments on airplanes proved a successful means of defeating other aircraft and even attacking men on the ground, a much more active and systematic development of warplanes began across the continent. Each advance prompted a countermeasure, as the two sides strove for primacy in a deadly, unforgiving environment which rewarded real advances in equipment and tactics with survival and punished poor ideas with death. Before long, relatively powerful, heavily armed aircraft buzzed through the skies over battle-stained Europe, tearing each other apart with furious gusts of machine gun fire and sending many of the vaunted dirigibles plunging, burning, to the ground. The new era of fighting aircraft arrived in dramatic fashion, raising successful pilots to celebrity or heroic status, and laying the groundwork for the tremendous potential of airpower to achieve its next logical expansion in World War II and beyond.  
  Rickenbacker's World War I service won him the Medal of Honor, along with more awards for valor than any other person fighting in World War I. But participating in the wars was not nearly enough time in the air for the ambitious Rickenbacker. When he was not setting new records in the air, he was setting new speed records on the ground, most notably as a first-generation race car driver who not only drove cars but designed them.  
  By the time World War II arrived, the fighter airplane was a much different beast than the purpose-built aircraft-hunting machines of 1917 and 1918. Though propellers still provided motive force, greatly increased engine power allowed these aircraft to slice through the sky at speeds of 200 miles per hour (mph), 300 mph, or even in excess of 400 mph when flying flat-out. Service ceilings jumped to 25,000 feet, 30,000 feet, or higher.

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  Timeless - The Art of...

  Maye Musk

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  NARRATED BY THE AUTHOR 
  From Maye Musk, the international supermodel, bestselling author, and mother of visionary Elon Musk, comes an empowering, intimate, and inspiring exploration of reinvention—that proves it’s never too late to embrace change, rewrite your story, and create a truly fabulous life. 
  In her late seventies, Maye Musk is thriving like never before: walking runways, gracing magazine covers, and inspiring audiences worldwide. But her journey to success was anything but conventional. In Timeless, she shares her extraordinary story of resilience, adaptability and the courage it takes to embrace change at any age. 
  With warmth, humor, and hard-earned wisdom, Maye reveals how she transformed her life—again and again. She shares the behind-the-scenes story of her second—and third, and fourth—acts. From surviving a difficult marriage, to raising three children—including visionary entrepreneur Elon Musk—as a single mother, she built her career as a dietitian from the ground up, while modeling on the side to make ends meet. Reinvention wasn’t a choice; it was her lifeline. 
  After decades of overcoming hardship and starting over in three countries, Maye proved at 50 that a woman’s best years don’t have an expiration date. She learned to thrive—not in spite of her age, but because of it— transforming her modeling career from catalog to couture in her sixties, and discovering the unexpected joy of becoming bolder with every decade. Along the way, she shares the lessons she’s learned—from leaving toxic relationships to asking for what you want, silencing fear, and welcoming new adventures. Her story is a testament to the power of perseverance and the belief that life’s most extraordinary chapters can unfold at any age. 
  Timeless is more than a memoir—it’s a master class in reinvention, self-discovery, and the art of becoming unapologetically yourself. Maye Musk’s journey will inspire you to embrace your own possibilities, proving that the best is yet to come.

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  Social Experiments in the 20th...

  Editors Charles River

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  The human psyche is one of the most complex, unpredictable, enigmatic, and therefore riveting phenomena in existence, one that psychologists have been working on deciphering since the dawn of modern science. To better understand the multifaceted intricacies of human behavior, and to unlock the secrets of the conscious mind and the subconscious, ambitious professionals in the field have conducted numerous groundbreaking – and at times, problematic – psychological experiments. The practice originated with German philosopher Wilhelm Wundt, one of the fathers of modern psychology and the creator of the world's first experimental psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig. He sought to measure the average speed of thought processes by assigning a range of reaction time tasks to his subjects.  
  	As the nascent, yet fast-developing scientific discipline took hold around the globe, psychological experiments simultaneously diversified. As revolutionary and eye-opening as many of these experiments were, they often danced on the fine line between ethical and unethical. There was, for instance, the now-infamous Little Albert Experiment, conducted at Johns Hopkins University in 1920, in which a nine-month-old infant was deliberately manipulated into developing an irrational fear for the purpose of studying classical conditioning, and the correlation between adult fears and childhood traumas. The Monster Study, carried out at the University of Iowa in 1939, attempted to convert orphans into stutterers, half of whom were subjected to positive reinforcements and the others to negative ones. Then, there was arguably the most notorious psychological experiment in history: the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, in which participants were randomly assigned the character of either prisoner or prison guard. That role-playing study quickly spiraled out of control.

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  Prison Days: Recruitment

  Simon King

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  Think you have what it takes? 
  You’ve taken the tour, followed Simon King through some of the darkest moments behind the walls of maximum-security. You’ve witnessed the violence, the depravity, the mind-blowing heartbreak through the eyes of a prison officer. Now, it’s your turn, to see if you measure up to the task of filling these boots. 
  Follow Simon for another trip behind the walls, as he introduces you to the possibilities, the pitfalls, the dangers, and the life of a maximum-security prison officer. Discover the roles, the tasks, the day-to-day schedule as you contemplate a career inside. Learn the tips and tricks to communicating with inmates, surviving confrontations, and ultimately making it out alive. If you’ve ever been curious whether you have what takes to work on the inside, here’s your chance. 
  Prison Days: Recruitment is the next chapter in the Prison Days series, with Simon King turning the tables on those who dare consider a role behind the razor wire.

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