Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno e Inés Ordiz (eds.), Latin American gothic in literature and culture. Routledge, New York-London, 2018; 270 pp.

Book Review: Robin Mason and Frank Rennie, e-Learning: The Key Concepts. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. xxxviii + 158 pp. ISBN 0415373077, $24.95 (pbk)

Review of Equilibrium in economics : scope and limits , edited by Valeria Mosini . London / New York : Routledge

Many scholars have already focused on the use of equilibrium concepts in economics. Consequently, we must consider the extent to which new books on equilibrium improve our understanding of this subject. Equilibrium in economics does much to explain the historical development and scholarly value of equilibrium concepts in the natural and social sciences and contains much historical detail for a ...

The Virtual by Rob Shields London and New York: Routledge, 2003

In The Virtual, Rob Shields puts virtuality in with the key categories of contemporary social theory such as subjectivity, agency, structure, and the spaces and temporalities between the modern and the postmodern. Shields has rescued the term and the idea of the virtual from utopian futurists like Howard Rheingold and Nicholas Negroponte who use it to hype emergent technologies and forms of cul...

New York doctors and London medicines, 1677.

LESS than thirteen years after English government supplanted Dutch the townsfolk of New York were being cared for by at least three doctors, Philip Lane, Daniel De Hart" and Hans Kierstede.2 Two manuscript sources reveal what medicines were in vogue and one manuscript shows that they were imported from London. The documents are certainly among the earliest, if not actually the earliest, evidenc...

Income Convergence toward USA: New Evidences for Latin and South American Countries

Abstract In this paper we test two versions of convergence hypothesis namely deterministic or conditional convergence and stochastic or catching up hypothesis using Carrion-i-Silvestre et al. (2005) stationary test. The results show Latin and South American countries (LSA) catching up process toward the USA failed in 1980s and somewhat in 1990s. But in 2000s most of them could lie in converge...