PERIODICAL LITERATURE

Of Recent Periodical Literature

The demography of Sandwich in this period has attracted attention from previous historians but has not been systematically studied. This article goes some way towards rectifying this situation by tracing the town’s growth from c. 1,500–1,700 in the mid-sixteenth century to c. 5,500 by 1610, population growth ending during the 1630s after which decline set in, the 1671 Hearth Tax suggesting a po...

Review of Recent Periodical Literature

Following in the footsteps of the Stockport Research Group, who made extensive use of probate inventories in their Stockport in the mid-seventeenth century, 1660– 1669 (S. McKenn and C. Nunn eds, Stockport, 1992), Paul Anderton provides a detailed analysis of 59 Nantwich inventories for the same decade along similar lines, with special reference to agriculture. Comparisons are made between Nant...

Survey of recent Halakhic periodical literature.

At the time of the performance ofthe first successful heart transplants, a number of leading halakhic authorities pronounced such procedures to be in violation of Jewish law. Some claimed that each heart transplant procedure entails two acts of homicide, viz., the immediate demise of the terminally ill donor from whom the healthy heart is removed and the premature death of the recipient.' In order

Characteristics of Periodical Literature for the Potential Reader or Author in Information Management

Journals and periodicals are a maior part of the formal communication system for exchanging information. Through this exchange, a developmental and unifying process that tends to define a body of knowledge takes place. In today’s information age, this process is occurring in the broad areas of data processing, information management, management information systems, computer information systems,...

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