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    Rio de Janeiro

    Bryan McCann

    Through ten pivotal moments, Rio de Janeiro brings a sophisticated understanding of the city's history to a broad general audience. Each moment is deeply founded in extensive research and deep…

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    Rio de Janeiro

    Bryan McCann

    Through ten pivotal moments, Rio de Janeiro brings a sophisticated understanding of the city's history to a broad general audience. Each moment is deeply founded in extensive research and deep…

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    Training and Supervision in Sport and Exercise Psychology

    Paul Mccarthy, Lindsey Burns, Bryan McCann, Sahen Gupta

    This book presents choices and challenges for trainees and supervisors, such as training and supervision mixing the science of doing sport and psychology with the art of decision-making to deliver…

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    Training and Supervision in Sport and Exercise Psychology

    Paul Mccarthy, Lindsey Burns, Bryan McCann, Sahen Gupta

    This book presents choices and challenges for trainees and supervisors, such as training and supervision mixing the science of doing sport and psychology with the art of decision-making to deliver…

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    Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil

    Bryan McCann

    Bryan McCann chronicles the flourishing of Brazilian popular music between the 1920s and the 1950s. Through analysis of the competing projects of composers, producers, bureaucrats, and fans, he shows that…

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    Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro

    Bryan McCann

    This history explains how and why the favelas of Rio de Janeiro were able to resist demolition in the 1970s but succumbed to the drug wars of the 1980s and…

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    Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro

    Bryan McCann

    This history explains how and why the favelas of Rio de Janeiro were able to resist demolition in the 1970s but succumbed to the drug wars of the 1980s and…

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    The Throes of Democracy: Brazil since 1989

    Doctor Bryan McCann

    In the 1980s, Brazil emerged from two decades of military dictatorship and embarked on a bold experiment in democracy. This book explores that tumultuous time.

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    The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era

    Bryan J. McCann

    Positions the works of key gangsta rap artists, as well as the controversies their work produced, squarely within the law-and-order politics and popular culture of the 1980s and 1990s to…

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    Joao Gilberto and Stan Getz’s Getz/Gilberto

    Bryan Daniel McCann (Georgetown University, USA)

    Most die-hard Brazilian music fans would argue that Getz/Gilberto, the iconic 1964 album featuring The Girl from Ipanema, is not the best bossa nova record. Yet we’ve all heard The…

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    Joao Gilberto and Stan Getz’s Getz/Gilberto

    Bryan Daniel McCann (Georgetown University, USA)

    Most die-hard Brazilian music fans would argue that Getz/Gilberto, the iconic 1964 album featuring The Girl from Ipanema, is not the best bossa nova record. Yet we’ve all heard The…

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    Cities From Scratch: Poverty and Informality in Urban Latin America

    Offers a collection of essays that challenges long-entrenched ideas about the history, nature, and significance of the informal neighborhoods that house the vast majority of Latin America’s urban poor.

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    From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going: A Social History of the Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    B.J. Barickman

    Deeply informed by scholarship about race, class, and gender, as well as civilization and modernity, space, the body, and the role of the state in shaping urban development, this work…

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    From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going: A Social History of the Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    B.J. Barickman

    Deeply informed by scholarship about race, class, and gender, as well as civilization and modernity, space, the body, and the role of the state in shaping urban development, this work…

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    Latin America in the Modern World

    Virginia Garrard,Peter Henderson,Bryan McCann

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    Cities From Scratch: Poverty and Informality in Urban Latin America

    Offers a collection of essays that challenges long-entrenched ideas about the history, nature, and significance of the informal neighborhoods that house the vast majority of Latin America’s urban poor.

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    Vertiginous Life: Bilingual Edition

    A translation of Joao do Rio’s Vida Vertiginosa, a collection of articles on the dizzying pace of change in Rio de Janeiro in 1911. Bilingual edition with Portuguese and English…

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    Latin America in the Modern World

    Virginia Garrard (University of Texas),Emeritus Professor of History Peter V N Henderson (Winona State University),Associate Professor of History Bryan McCann (Georgetown University)

    Latin America in the Modern World is the first text to situate the history of Latin America within a wider global narrative. Written by leading scholars, the book focuses on…

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