The Malleus Maleficarum(1486)by Henry Institoris and Jacques Sprenger was written in order to help inquisitors identify,persecute,and prosecute witches.The book is well-known but not studied as much as one could think...
The work was supported by the European Union under the French Agricultural Research Center for International Development(CIRAD)through a project entitled"Forest Restoration in Degraded Forest Landscapes of Eastern Africa and Indian Ocean Islands"(FOREAIM),within the FP6 framework(International Cooperation-Developing Countries[INCO-DEV],Contract INCO-CT-2005-510790).
The cultural universe is sometimes confusing,surprising and murky,so many cultural maps get drawn,discussed and envisioned.A study was undertaken around Mabira Forest Reserve in central Uganda to identify the trees an...
This paper is a discussion of the fantastic genre in literature and film. I employ the term genre in this paper in two ways. First, I attempt to define the fantastic as a genre of writing through the emblematic form o...
supported by the National Health and Family Planning Commission of China;the National Key Research & Development Program of China (2016YFC1000401 and 2016YFC1000406-1);the National Natural Science Foun-dation of China (81571517)
Fertility in China was long constrained by the One-Child policy enacted in 1978. Over time the policy was progressively relaxed,first in rural areas and then for couples who both had no siblings.A Selective Two-Child ...
"Never situate a toilet door in line with the entrance to a home, otherwise bad luck might hit the owners," said Wang Min, while remonstrating a builder on the taboos of housing design.
Fengshui, which can be translated as Wind-Water literally in English, is an ancient Chinese system of laws considered to govern spatial arrangement and orientation in relation to the flow of Qi, and whose favorable or...
Traffic authorities in Haikou,cap-ital of China’s southernmost island province of Hainan,have removed the number"four"from all its vehicle number plates,as four,a Chinese homonym of death,is consid-ered bad luck by m...