Shiva Purana is oldest Purana known to human civilization. The stories were depicted as engravings on steatite stones and embossed on terracotta seals in Indus Valley Civilization which belonged to an era of 4500 BCE. There were depictions of Pashupathinatha, script of Kama Dahana, Daksha Yagna, and other symbols like Bull and depiction of a story where a man climbs on a Bilwa tree with a huge tiger just beneath it. SHIVA PURANA is full of allegory. It is a literary style invented by India...

American Literary Studies in Postmillennial India: Critical Perspectives is a collection of critical essays on Contemporary American Literature. This book is a classic and unique collection of critical essays on various topics such as Americanness, American Dream, Transcendentalism, Counterculture, Gay culture, Post Communism, Race, Class, Gender in American Literature, African American literature, Jewish American literature, and comparative study between Indian and American Liter...

Results of regular monitoring of the species diversity and structure of plant communities is used by conservation biologists to help understand impacts of perturbations caused by humans and other environmental factors on ecosystems worldwide. Changes in plant communities can, for example, be a reflection of increased levels of pollution, a response to long-term climate change, or the result of shifts in land-use practices by the human population. This book presents a series of essays on th...

Achieving cost-effective performance over time requires an organized, disciplined, and time-phased approach to product design, development, qualification, manufacture, and in-service management. Guidebook for Managing Silicon Chip Reliability examines the principal failure mechanisms associated with modern integrated circuits and describes common practices used to resolve them.This quick reference on semiconductor reliability addresses the key question: How will the understanding o...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Advances in Computational Intelligence, ICACI 2023, held in Hyderabad, India, during December 15–16, 2023.The 7 full papers and 2 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 234 submissions. These papers focus on the diverse applications of Data engineering in various areas such as Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Pattern Recogni...