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Selected peer-reviewed full text papers from the 2nd International Scientific-Practical Conference "Machine Building and Energy: New Concepts and Technologies" (MBENCT 2023)
Special topic volume with invited peer-reviewed papers only
Special topic volume with invited peer-reviewed papers only
Selected peer-reviewed full text papers from the 2nd International Scientific-Practical Conference "Machine Building and Energy: New Concepts and Technologies" (MBENCT 2023)
Special topic volume with invited peer-reviewed papers only
Selected peer-reviewed extended articles based on abstracts presented at the 2nd International Scientific-Practical Conference "Machine Building and Energy: New Concepts and Technologies" (MBENCT 2023) Aggregated Book
Selected peer-reviewed full text papers from the 2nd International Scientific-Practical Conference "Machine Building and Energy: New Concepts and Technologies" (MBENCT 2023)
In 1992 when a Dalit woman left the convent and wrote her autobiography, the Tamil publishing industry found her language unacceptable. So Bama Faustina published her milestone work Karukku privately in 1992-a passionate and important mix of history, sociology, and the strength to remember.Karukku broke barriers of tradition in more ways than one. The first autobiography by a Dalit woman writer and a classic of subaltern writing, it is a bold and poignant tale of life outside mainstream Indian thought and function. Revolving around the main theme of caste oppression within theCatholic Church, it portrays the tension between the self and the community, and presents Bama's life as a process of self-reflection and recovery from social and institutional betrayal.The English translation, first published in 2000 and recognized as a new alphabet of experience, pushed Dalit writing into high relief. This second edition includes a Postscript in which Bama relives the dramatic movement of her leave-taking from her chosen vocation and a special note "Ten YearsLater".
Gold-guarding griffins, Cyclopes, killer lakes, man-eating birds, and "fire devils" from the sky—such wonders have long been dismissed as fictional. Now, thanks to the richly interdisciplinary field of geomythology, researchers are taking a second look. It turns out that these and similar tales, which originated in pre-literate societies, contain surprisingly accurate, pre-scientific intuitions about startling or catastrophic earth-based phenomena such as volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and the unearthing of bizarre animal bones. Geomythology: How Common Stories Reflect Earth Events provides an accessible, engaging overview of this hybrid discipline. The introductory chapter surveys geom...