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Capoeira evolved as a Brazilian martial art developed initially by that country’s African slaves. Marked by deft, deceptive movements played on the ground or completely inverted, the form started gaining worldwide popularity in the early 20th century, when this second volume of Gerard Taylor’s wide-ranging history begins. The book opens with a study of the capoeira “Bamba,” Mestre Bimba, who became renowned as a fighting champion in Bahia and opened the first legal academy during the dictatorship of Getulio Vargas. Taylor investigates the dramatic development of the schism that resulted in the competing styles of Regional and Angola. Moving into contemporary capoeira, the author prov...
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Endoscopic Techniques in Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery comprehensively addresses both the aesthetic and reconstructive aspects of endoscopic surgery as applied to plastic surgery. The editors, renowned pioneers of these techniques, have assembled a group of distinguished contributors to present, step-by-step, the operative strategies for incorporation of endoscopic procedures to the armamentarium of the practicing plastic surgeon. The procedures are precisely and exquisitely rendered by 721 illustrations, including over 300 full color endoscopic views and operative photographs. This book is the essential, definitive source for mastery of these state-of-the-art techniques.
The chapters in the Women’s Football in Latin America two volumes will look at the social and historical means of the embodied representation of gender differences that has been deeply embedded in the history of Latin American women and football. The authors identify and analyse how, in a range of ways, Latin American women have found in-between spaces, amid severe macho structures, to establish and play their football. As a result, the book will be of interest to researchers and students of sport sociology, football studies, gender studies, comparative sports studies, sports history, and Latin American sporting culture. The first volume of this edited collection brings together a variety ...