"The Student's Handbook to Mindful Living: Practical Practices for Peace" is a transformative guide designed to empower students with the tools they need to navigate the challenges of academic life with ease and cultivate a sense of inner tranquility. This handbook offers practical mindfulness practices that are tailor-made for students, helping them reduce stress, improve focus, and enhance overall well-being. With clear, step-by-step instructions, students will discover how to integrate ...

The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in rich society. It is one of the first novels of manners in American literature, and one of the first to openly explore how American Victorian society offered little social mobility for women. (Summary from Wikipedia).

The Achilleid is the third and unfinished work by the Roman poet Publius Papinius Statius. In its introduction, it promises to present the life of the hero Achilles from his youth as a pupil under the centaur Chiron to his death at Troy. The author died however before writing most of the poem, leaving only one and a half books completed. The part that remains though holds interest for being unusual, bringing an account of the hero's early life and an episode in which his mother, Thetis, di...