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Fray Manuel Blanco’s Flora de Filipinas(Fifth Edition, Volume 1) Edited by Dr. Domingo A. Madulid In 1837, Fr. Manuel Bl...
14/01/2026

Fray Manuel Blanco’s Flora de Filipinas
(Fifth Edition, Volume 1)
Edited by Dr. Domingo A. Madulid

In 1837, Fr. Manuel Blanco published his iconic botanical text Flora de Filipinas, documenting hundreds of Philippine plant species according to popular usage. After Blanco’s death, several more editions were published, most notably the lavish 1877-83 third edition in six volumes, with over a thousand plant descriptions and 477 magnificently detailed color illustrations by Filipino and Spanish art masters. These volumes have been highly coveted by collectors of Filipiniana as well as botanical enthusiasts. Although a 1993 facsimile edition was produced, it only had a limited number of copies and is now rare.

This revamped and newly accessible modern edition brings Flora de Filipinas to contemporary readers. Eminent botanical expert Dr. Domingo Madulid has selected and compiled 150 Philippine plants according to their usage, rarity, and popularity. The plants have been arranged by their common names, along with their accepted scientific names and the Latin names used by Blanco. Excerpts from Blanco’s original notes give fascinating insight into how these plants were commonly used during his time. They reveal the Filipino people’s attitude to plants and their intrinsic trust in nature’s healing capabilities. Also included are folkloric and historical notes that detail the cultural context of each plant species beyond taxonomic and practical interests. These come together to highlight Blanco’s masterwork for what it is—not simply a scientific reference text, but a valuable landmark of Philippine art and culture.

Published 2017
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352 glossy pages
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By Their Deeds: The Paternos of the Spanish Era (Volumes 1&2) As constant and present as the stars in the sky, our ances...
14/01/2026

By Their Deeds: The Paternos of the Spanish Era (Volumes 1&2)

As constant and present as the stars in the sky, our ancestors live in us, blurred in daylight as we carry on our daily tasks. They seem to have willed to make themselves more visible to us through portraits, photographs, archival documents, other mementos even when we look in the mirror, at our own reflections. We only need to be more mindful.

Seemingly so removed from our present-day preoccupations, perhaps they are reminding us by their deeds that we are who we are because they were who they were. They endeavored to be masters of their milieu, lead actors in the story of our nation as a Spanish colony, while some contributed in quieter yet unmistakably supporting and connected roles.

They paved the way for us, their continuation, their immortality. In the darkest of nights, inside of us lie their dreams and their grit—to show us the light and to assure us of our place in this family constellation. At the terminus of our own days, with conscious effort, we too, shall join them as stars to our descendants.

This narrative is thus driven by the Paternos of the Spanish era, the ancestors sharing their stories with us. We who worked on it are merely its presenters. May you find comfort and pride in this clan.

Published 2019
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Palaspas: An Appreciation of Palm Leaf Art in the Philippines By Elmer I. Nocheseda From the author’s painstaking docume...
14/01/2026

Palaspas: An Appreciation of Palm Leaf Art in the Philippines
By Elmer I. Nocheseda

From the author’s painstaking documentation of palaspas forms, which made up twelve thick albums of pictures, pencil illustrations and notes from interviews, close to eighty palm leaf objects were chosen to be featured in this richly photographed book, the first of its kind.

Palaspas begins with how the palm leaf has figured in our early history and culture, then highlights its myriad manifestations in the contemporary religious, social, and economic practices of our people in various communities all over the country. Enlivening the detailed instructions in creating the ephemerally beautiful forms are the stories behind the author’s encounter with each krus sa lukay, tipaklong, minais, manuk-manuk, bolang dako, kinasing, patupat ti sinublan, and many more.

Published 2009
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328 glossy pages
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Manila, City of Islands: A Social and Historical Inquiry into the Built Forms and Urban Experience of an Archipelago Meg...
14/01/2026

Manila, City of Islands: A Social and Historical Inquiry into the Built Forms and Urban Experience of an Archipelago Megacity
By Edwin Wise

“You will never think of Manila the same again…

Manila, City of Islands evoked Manila’s rhythms, colors, and sights, capturing the city’s totality and uniqueness.

Wise avoids the sententious cliches of the bad rich and the good poor. There are no heroic guerrillas or demonic Americans or redemptive romantic nationalists. Rather, he subtly explains urban behavior as a result of tensions between kinships and strangers, technology and history, and therefore explores in a clear-eyed manner the multiple layers of private cities that comprise Metro Manila, from the gated cities of the rich to the private worlds of the poor. The traditional public spaces of both the classical and modernist city have been almost eviscerated.

With a wry skeptical eye, Wise melds painstaking urban anthropological-ehtno-methodological observation, classic urban sociological analysis, and filleted social theorizing into a seamless elegant whole that rarely misses a beat.”

Published 2019
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238 pages
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False Nostalgia: The Marcos “Golden Age” Myths and How to Debunk Them By JC Punongbayan Was the Philippines really the r...
14/01/2026

False Nostalgia: The Marcos “Golden Age” Myths and How to Debunk Them
By JC Punongbayan

Was the Philippines really the richest country in Asia during the 1970s and 1980s? Did martial law eradicate hunger and poverty? Did the Marcos regime produce a “golden age” of infrastructure? And did the Marcoses really fight the oligarchy and own a million tons of gold?

False Nostalgia aims to set the record straight. Weaving together hard data and facts in clear and accessible prose, this book aims to debunk the prevailing notion that martial law was the “golden age” of the Philippines. In the process, it paints a clearer, more complete, and therefore more honest picture of the Philippine economy at that time.

More than anything else, this book reminds us why—in this time of mangled histories and fragile memories-it has never been more crucial to fight for the truth and to never forget.

Published 2023
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375 pages
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Philippine Herbs: For Healthy Cooking, Common Cures, and Concoctions By Dr. Domingo Madulid, Dr. Jaime Galvez-Tan, Josef...
14/01/2026

Philippine Herbs: For Healthy Cooking, Common Cures, and Concoctions
By Dr. Domingo Madulid, Dr. Jaime Galvez-Tan, Josefa Reyes and Michaela Fenix

This book brings a fresh focus on 80 indigenous Philippine herbs and plants popularly used for home cooking, medicinal remedies, and for staying healthy. The book hopes to promote a better understanding and appreciation of indigenous Philippine herbs and how these have been used throughout the country as natural ingredients for healthy living.

Published 2017
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302 glossy pages
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Typhoons, Climate, Society, and History in the Philippines By James Francis Warren This book offers an unprecedented and...
14/01/2026

Typhoons, Climate, Society, and History in the Philippines
By James Francis Warren

This book offers an unprecedented and extensive view of the complex interplay of typhoons and Philippine society. Its sweeping coverage of the Philippine landscape that includes the earliest contact with the West, the development of the transPacific trade, incursions of the Catholic religion, integration into the Modern World system, and the extraordinary influences of centuries of typhoons has made for remarkable scholarship.

By placing typhoons and associated hazards at the center of his historical focus, James Francis Warren presents a bold and innovative interpretation of Philippine pasts and futures, whereby the distinctions between natural hazards and natural disasters disappear. He gives a unique and long-term perspective on Philippine environmental and economic-social history through the lens of a recurrent extreme weather event extending all the way to the present, laying down the critical challenges that confront us in a globally warmer and more unpredictable future.

A very important reference material for all those interested in multidisciplinary approaches to environmental sciences, social sciences, economic and sociopolitical history, disaster risk management, and sustainable development, Typhoons is an astonishing, panoramic, persuasive study of inestimable value.

Published 2024
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761 pages
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Sensing ManilaBy Gary C. Devilles This book directs us to another trajectory of urban and Manila studies-how we make sen...
14/01/2026

Sensing Manila
By Gary C. Devilles

This book directs us to another trajectory of urban and Manila studies-how we make sense, using senses, of our beloved city. Weaving a diverse range of tropes-from Philippine literature, ethnography in a gay bar, and videoke to fastfood consumerist subcultures, among others-Gary Devilles offers a sensible and sensitive mapping of Manila as amalgam for Metro Manila and the nation’s premier cosmopolis, and within global neoliberalism. It is a captivating and mesmerizing critical read of the formation and transformation of Manila, and its consequences for Philippine and global localities and identities.

Published 2020
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218 pages
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Children of the Post-colony: Filipino Intellectuals and Decolonization 1946-1972 By Charlie Samuya Veric Writing against...
14/01/2026

Children of the Post-colony: Filipino Intellectuals and Decolonization 1946-1972
By Charlie Samuya Veric

Writing against historical forgetting, the author reconstructs the foundations of Filipino postcolonial thought following Philippine independence from the United States in 1946. On the one hand, he narrates the rise of postcolonial knowledge after the formal birth of the nation. On the other, he examines the ideas of the first generation of intellectuals who came of age after independence-Edith L. Tiempo, Fernando Zobel, Bienvenido L. Lumbera, E. San Juan, Jr., and Jose Maria Sison-whose penetrating insights into literary formalism, modern art, vernacular tradition, subaltern internationalism, and mass revolution constitute key cultural archives of postcolonial knowledge production.

Published 2020
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241 pages
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Ang Wikang Pambansa at Amerikanisasyon: Isang Kasaysayan ng Pakikihamok ng Filipino Para Maging Wikang Pambansa By Virgi...
14/01/2026

Ang Wikang Pambansa at Amerikanisasyon: Isang Kasaysayan ng Pakikihamok ng Filipino Para Maging Wikang Pambansa
By Virgilio S. Almario

Ito ay isang “kontrabidang kasaysayan” ng Filipinas. Kontrabida dahil sinisipat ang nagdaang dokumentadong kasaysayang salungat sa salaysay na pinairal ng amerikanisadong pagtanaw sa Filipino bilang Wikang Pambansa. Naniniwala ang awtor na biktima ng dominado’t amerikanisadong edukasyon ang kamulátang Filipino. Dahil dito, hindi makairal ang nasyonalistang pagtanaw sa kasaysayan. Hindi tuloy nakikita ang halaga ng isang katutubong wika para sa Filipinisasyon na pangarap ng mga Propagandista ng La Solidaridad at para sa adhikang mapagpalayà ng Himagsikang 1896. Ang pagpapahalaga sa isang katutubong wikang pambansa ay labag na labag sa adhikang kolonyal ng mga Americano noong 1898. Kayâ hanggang ngayon ay patuloy • na binabaluktot ng mga amerikanisado sa hanay ng mga edukadong Filipino ang totoong kasaysayan at pagbibigay ng kabuluhan sa Wikang Pambansa.

Published 2023
Paperback
527 pages
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Knowledge & Pacification: On the US Conquest and the Writing of Philippine History By Reynaldo C. Ileto This book shows ...
14/01/2026

Knowledge & Pacification: On the US Conquest and the Writing of Philippine History
By Reynaldo C. Ileto

This book shows us how to think about the American century in the Philippines in another way. Colonial representations of the revolution and resistance to U.S. occupation have been contested quite effectively. But the bigger challenge, or rather pressing task, is to interrogate some basic notions that undergird our understanding of Philippine politics-notions that owe their provenance to early attempts by U.S. officials and scholars to pacify the enemy.

Published 2017
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361 pages
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Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation By Vicente Rafael This book presents the most co...
14/01/2026

Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation
By Vicente Rafael

This book presents the most compelling and deft analyses of the role of translation in the contexts of revo-lution, revolt, war, and empire in the Philippines and the United States. No work of this kind brings the Philippines and the United States together with its singular attention to the politics of trans-lation, or with the kind of deep linguistic and cultural fluency that Vicente L. Rafael possesses. A significant figure in translation studies, Rafael is positioned to open new pathways to thinking about what translation brings to light in the contemporary moment.

Published 2016
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255 pages
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