Pacific Storm

Recah Trinidad

This book contains dispatches by Recah Trinidad and details of the fights of Manny Pacquiao (date of fight, title at stake, name of opponent, venue, decision), as well as a roster of Filipino world boxing champions. It also includes a statement from former Mayor of Manila Lito Atienza, about his long friendship with the boxing champion from Manny’s days training at an old gym in Manila.

Pasig City: Anvil Publishing, 2006

Paghuhunos

Ellen L. Sicat

“Wala akong ibang alam na paraan ng pagkukuwento kundi tulad lamang ng sa impo ko: kapalagayang-loob niya ang kakuwentuhan, ka-talamitang-dila, ‘ika nga … bagamat tinangka kong maging matapat sa nobelang Paghuhunos, maaaring ang aking pagkaalaala ang di naging matapat. May mga banggit sa kasaysayan ang nobela, posibleng nagkagulo-gulo ang petsa. Dapat nanaliksik ako, pero masisira ang nais kong kalabasan ng nobela: isang pagbubuklat ng gunita—may labis, may kulang.”—Ellen L. Sicat

Quezon City: University of the Phillipines Press, 2001

Pagkatao at Teknolohiya: Mga Isyu ng Etika sa Makabagong Medisina

Leonardo D. De Castro

“Kapansin-pansin ngayon sa mga pahayagan, radyo, at telebisyon ang mga balita tungkol sa aborsyon, euthanasia, assisted suicide, cloning, teknolohiyang pangreproduksiyon, genetic engineering, at iba pang paksa na kinatatagpuan ng nag-uumapaw na bugtong tungkol sa katayuan at hinaharap ng tao. Sa harap ng mga ito, hindi maaaring manatiling mga tagapanood lamang ang mga pangkaraniwang tao. Kailangang masangkot ang pangkaraniwang tao sa mga pag-aaral at pagpapasya sapagkat siya man ay may malaking taya sa mga maaaring mangyari. Hangarin ng aklat na ito na makatulong sa paglilinaw ng mga isyung tinutukoy.”—Mula sa paunang salita

Quezon CIty: U.P. Sentro ng Wikang Filipino, 1999

Pagluwas

Zosimo Quibilan Jr.

Binubuo ang Pagluwas ng 52 kuwentong pira-piraso tungkol sa mga pasaherong sumakay ng bus biyaheng Maynila galling Baguio, at nauwi sa isang kakaibang sakuna. Walang nakaligtas at nasugatan. Wala, kahit mga katawan

Quezon City: University of the Phillipines Press, 2006

Pagsalubong sa Habagat

Lamberto E. Antonio

Also published by Kaunlaran Press, 1986.

Nagsimulang makilala si Lamberto E. Antonio sa masugid niyang pagtataguyod ng modernismo sa tulang Pilipino. Sa paglabas ng kanyang Hagkis ng Talahib (1980), naging ganap ang pagkilala sa natatangi niyang kakayahang isataludtod ang “damdaming naninigid at paniwalang pinakalirip.” Ang Pagsalubong sa Habagat ang pinakahuling yugto ng kanyang masagisag at maharayang pagsisiwalat.

Quezon City: Aklat Peskador, 1986

Pagsubok sa Ilang: Ikaapat ng Mukha ni Satanas

Tony Perez

“Written creatively and with uncommon clarity, this book critically rereads the temptations in the desert as a process of psycho-spiritual integration involving Jesus’ descent to his unconscious and the reabsorption of his Shadow. Satan as the “shadow” is non-dualistically presented here as a force that is integrally within us, which we must face in order to move toward greater individuation. Pagsubok sa Ilang indeed contributes not only to the small collection of academic studies devoted to the figure of Satan but also to the possible significations Satan can assume in Christian life.”—Agnes M. Brazal, STD, Maryhill School of Theology

Pasig City: Anvil Publishing, 2005

Pambungad sa Metapisika

Roque J. Ferriols, SJ

Noong 1969, nagsimulang magturo ng pilosopiya si Padre Ferriols sa wikang Filipino. Nag-iisa siyang nangahas na bigkasin ang tunay na umiiral, o “Meron” sa katutubong wika, sa panahong Ingles lamang ang naghaharing wika sa mga pamantasan at inakala pang tanging wika ng pag-iisip. Sa pamamagitan ng tahasang paglalarawan at pagpapaliwanag ng karanasan sa wikang Filipino, naipakita ni Padre Ferriols kung paano kumakagat o nag-uugat ito sa tunay na umiiral o “Meron” sa bukod-tanging paraan. Pinayaman din ni Padre Ferriols ang katutubong kalinangan nang isulat niya ang kanyang Pambungad sa Metapisika.

Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Office of Research and Publications,, 1991

Panahon ng Hapon: Sining sa Digmaan, Digmaan sa Sining


Edited by Gina V. Barte

This book is an anthology of essays dealing with Philippine art and culture in a historical perspective: the Second World War and the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines, covering the period 1942–1945. These essays are studies by contemporary scholars of Philippine history and the arts whose findings on the subject, hitherto dismissed as uneventful in terms of artistic and cultural production, yield fresh information and insights that re-evaluate and reinterpret the conclusions offered by earlier studies on the subject

Pasay City: Cultural Center of the Philippines, 1992

Pangalay: Traditional Dances and Related Folk Artistic Expressions

Ligaya Fernando-Amilbangsa

“In Pangalay, Ligaya Fernando-Amilbangsa has gathered material for the dance historian, the dance teacher, the dancer. It seems inevitable, however, that her audience will expand to include the choreographer in search of the bases of abstraction and creation; the historian seeking the cultural artifacts that mark historical time; the anthropologist and sociologist exploring sociocultural settings for human behavior; and certainly anyone wishing to understand still another facet of being Filipino.”—Doreen G. Fernandez, in the foreword

Makati City: Filipinas Foundation for the Ministry of Muslim Affairs, 1983

Papa’s House, Mama’s House

Jean Lee C. Patindol
Illustrated by Mark Ramsel N. Salvatus III

“Many adults believe that some subjects are ‘not for children’ and the issue of separated families is one of these. Yet children are perceptive observers who wonder and feel confused at why they or their peers do not live with both a mother and a father. This story about such a family, told from the voice of a child, responds to children’s questions in a simple and sensitive way.”—Liane Peña-Alampay, Ph.D., developmental psychologist, Ateneo de Manila University

Quezon City: Adarna House, 2004

Papel de Liha

Ompong Remigio
Illustrated by Beth Parrocha-Doctolero

This story honors the untiring love a mother has for her family. She works all day: cooks their meals, does the laundry, cleans each nook and cranny. All this work must make her hands as rough as sandpaper! This distresses the little girl in our story who overhears her aunt say that sandpaper hands will make her father leave her mother!

Quezon City: Adarna House, 1996

Pares-Pares

Bienvenido M. Noriega Jr.

This book contains six plays written in Filipino. These are: “Ramona Reyes ng Forbes Park,” “Regina Ramos ng Greenwich Village,” “Kanluran ng Buhay,” “Kasalan sa Likod ng Simbahan, Dalawang Kuwento,” and “Tampuhan.”

Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1983

Pasquinades

Adrian E. Cristobal
Edited by Celin S. Cristobal

A collection of Cristobal’s newspaper columns—those for “weekend readings … which are hardly political, less topical, and more fanciful, or whimsical.”

Pasig City: Anvil Publishing, 1993

Passional: New Poems and Some Translations

Ophelia A. Dimalanta

This sixth book of poetry by the author contains 30 new poems and some translations by Rebecca Añouevo and Michael Coroza, two of the brightest young poets in Filipino.

Manila: University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2003

Patrimony: 6 Case Studies on Local Politics and the Environment in the Philippines

Sheila S. Coronel

This book examines the link between local politics and the environment, probing how democratization and devolution have affected the way resources are managed at the local level.

Quezon City: Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, 1996

Paz Marquez Benitez: One Woman\'s Life, Letters, and Writings

Virginia B. Licuanan

ISBN 971-550-186-9 (BP), 304 pages

An account of the life of an extraordinary teacher, writer, and publisher, the book also includes Marquez’s letters and entries from her diaries, which reflect life at the turn of the century until the 1980s.

Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1995

Penmanship and Other Stories

Jose Y. Dalisay Jr.

Penmanship and Other Stories is Jose Y. Dalisay Jr.’s third collection of short stories and includes a short novel, Voyager. These new stories deal largely with men and women, and with the ebbs and flows of power—often taken or mistaken for love—that pass between them.

Mandaluyong City: Cacho Publishing House, 1995

People of the Philippine Cordillera: Photographs, 1934-1956

Eduardo Masferre, Jill Gale De Villa, Ma. Teresa Garcia-Farr, Gladys Montgomery Jones

From 1934 to 1956, self-taught Filipino photographer Eduardo Masferré dedicated his talent to recording images of the ancient way of life of the indigenous people in the heart of the Philippine Cordillera mountains. Because of the historic importance and the artistic quality of Masferré’s photographs, it was imperative that his life’s work be compiled, published, and made available to the public and to students of Philippine cultural heritage. Several institutions participated in this project: the Metropolitan Museum of Manila, the Department of Education, Culture and Sports, the Cultural Center of the Philippines Museo ng Kalinangang Pilipino, and Mobil Philippines.

Metro Manila: DevCon, IP, 1988

People on Guerrero Street

Leoncio P. Deriada

People on Guerrero Street is a novel set in Guerrero Street of Davao City, during the school year 1953–1954. The author was himself a junior in the Davao City High School at that time. The book was cited by the Manila Critics Circle “for portraying life in a ‘small town’ transforming quietly into a big city, with every growing-up event magnified beyond reason and passion, where sex is mistaken for love and love for life, until death brings both protagonist and reader back to semi-urban life in an unreal city with real people in it.”

Iloilo City: Seguiban Printers and Publishing House, 2004

People Power 2: Lessons and Hopes


Edited by Thelma Sioson San Juan

Book design by Onate and Perez, Inc.

This book is a compendium of the lessons that we must take with us beyond People Power 2. Says Professor Cynthia Bautista of the University of the Philippines Department of Sociology: “Unless the middle classes facilitate the emergence of new social structures, the old social hierachies that allowed the excesses of a Marcos [deposed by People Power 1] or an Estrada [deposed by People Power 2] will prevail.”

Pasig City: ABS-CBN Publishing Company, 2001