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20 Speeches That Moved A Nation

By Manuel L. Quezon III

Original texts of speeches by Jose Rizal, Emilio Aguinaldo, Andres Bonifacio, Clemencia Lopez, Sergio Osmeña, Manuel L. Quezon, SP Lopez, Lope K. Santos, Claro M. Recto, Francisco Rodrigo, Jose Ma. Sison, Ferdinand Marcos, Pacifico Ortiz, SJ, Felixberto Olalia Sr., Corazon C. Aquino, Joaquin Roces, Wigberto Tañada, Joseph Estrada, Joker Arroyo, and Conrado de Quiros that have moved, for better or worse, generations of Filipinos.

Aguinaldo's Breakfast

And More Looking Back Essays

By Ambeth Ocampo

These essays bring the reader to the Philippines' past in exploration of food, haircuts, courtship, cursing, and even farting. Through the interviews and profiles we get to know more about Teodoro Agoncillo, Dely Atay-atayan, Jose Ma. Sison and others. Definitely not what history textbooks will teach you.

Aguinaldo's Breakfast

And More Looking Back Essays

By Ambeth Ocampo

Assassinations & Conspiracies

From Rajah Humabon To Imelda Marcos

By Manuel F. Martinez

Assassinations and Conspiracies is a collection of the true stories of famous murders that changed the country's history. An interesting study of human nature and political affairs, it recounts the intriguing details that led to the deaths of some of our heroes, as well as heretofore unpublished details of assassination attempts against former Philippine presidents.

Bearers Of Benevolence

The Thomasites And Public Education In The Philippines

By Mary Racelis and Judy Celine A. Ick, editors

An anthology of recollections, eyewitness accounts, and official documents from soldier-teachers, authentic Thomasites, government bureaucrats and Filipino students whose lives changed when wide-scale public education was created as part of the American policy of benevolent assimilation.

Bones Of Contention

The Bonifacio Lectures

Part of: Ambeth Ocampo collection.

Companion volume to Meaning and History.

Bonifacio's Bolo

By Ambeth Ocampo

Find out why Andres Bonifacio preferred his gun to his bolo and why he was not the "Great Unwashed" as myth would have him depicted. In Bonifacio's Bolo, Ambeth Ocampo adds even more interesting bits to another scrapbook of history.

Closer Than Brothers

Manhood At The Philippine Military Academy

By Alfred W. McCoy

In this innovative book, McCoy takes a new approach to the military and political history of the Philippines. Comparing two generations of graduates from the Philippine Military Academy - the classes of 1940 and 1971 - McCoy uncovers fundamental differences in their academic socialization and subsequent ascent to power. Viewed through this comparative lens, the story of these two classes becomes the history of the entire Philippine army, offering important insights into the complexities of Filipino involvement in war and peace from the 1930s to the 1990s.

Days Of Disquiet, Nights Of Rage

By Jose F. Lacaba

A compilation of on-the-spot reports on the First Quarter Storm first published in the Philippine Free Press and the Asia-Philippines Leader, Days of Disquiet, Nights of Rage is a useful manual for mass media students and practitioners working in the so-called New Journalism or literary journalism. "Of our journalists, one of the most able in the new style is Jose F. Lacaba. As TV and newsreel do, he puts you right on the scene... [H]e communicates the emotion, even the meaning of what's happening without having to spell it out." - Quijano de Manila, Foreword

EDSA 2

A Nation In Revolt (A Photographic Journal)

A photographic account of the events that led to People Power 2. It contains 252 moving and memorable images by 53 Filipino photojournalists and an essay by investigative reporter Sheila S. Coronel. Entitled, "The Unmaking of a President," the essay provides a running commentary of the events that led to this important act of collective indignation against a president who took advantage of his popularity to rob the country blind.

In The Name Of Democracy And Prayer

Selected Speeches

By Corazon C. Aquino

A selection of President Aquino's important speeches, including three personal prayers.

Journey Of 100 Years

Reflections On The Centennial Of Philippine Independence

By Cecilia Brainard and Edmudo Litton, editors

Journey of 100 Years gathers the works of some of the finest Filipino and Filipino-American scholars and writers. Contributors include Valorie Bejarano, Susan Evangelista, Rosita Galang, Luisa Igloria, Paulino Lim, Jr., Herminia Menez, Susan Montepio, Elizabeth Pastores-Pallfy, E. San Juan, Jr., Felice Prudente Sta. Maria, Nadine Sarreal, Santiago Sia, John Silva, Ruel De Vera, and Damon Woods.

Looking Back

By Ambeth Ocampo

These essays present our heroes as more than concrete or stone, with their grand moments in history and their own sets of idiosyncrasies.

Luna's Moustache

By Ambeth Ocampo

In this volume, Ocampo ponders the arrangement of Mabini's bones in his tiny coffin, examines the curling irons for Luna's moustache, tracks down the exact expletive General Mascardo used to goad General Luna to fight him, gawks at the vaginal clamps used by Galiciano Apacible and the "pickled appendix" of Aguinaldo, and much more interesting vignettes as only Ocampo can write.

Makamisa

The Search For Rizal's Third Novel

By Ambeth Ocampo

Ocampo discovers the Tagalog draft and the Spanish borrador of Rizal's third and unfinished novel, Makamisa.

Received the National Book Award

Meaning And History

The Rizal Lectures

By Ambeth Ocampo

The author's characteristic wit and insight are again evident in this collection of lectures and conference papers written between the years 1993-1998 and delivered in different schools and gatherings in the country and abroad.

Mga Pangulo Ng Pilipinas

By Lydia Gonzales, editor

Also listed under: Biography

The life and achievements of Philippine presidents from Emilio Aguinaldo to Joseph Estrada. A reference for high school students of Philippine history.

Rizal Without The Overcoat (Expanded Edition)

By Ambeth Ocampo

An updated and expanded edition of the best-selling title that offers fresh insights on the life and times of our National Hero. Here, Ocampo has succeeded where other historians have failed- and that is in making the study and reading of Rizal not a burden, but a joy.

Seven In The Eye Of History

By Asuncion David-Maramba, editor

Also listed under: Biography

Eugenia Apostol, Corazon Aquino, Macli-ing Dulag, Rosa Henson, Luis Jalandoni, Eduardo Quintero, and Jaime Cardinal Sin all found themselves in the "eye of history," defining moments that changed or ended their lives. The essays are by Lorna Kalaw-Tirol, Vicente Tirol, Neni Sta. Romana Cruz, Adolfo Azcuna, Nestor Castro, Sheila Coronel, Angelito Santos, Fides Lim, Bienvenido Lumbera, Lita Hidalgo, Wilfrido Villacorta, Dulce Baybay, and Ferdinand Santos.

Six Young Filipino Martyrs

By Asuncion David-Maramba, editor

This is a book of role models. Includes short biographies of Lean Alejandro, Lorena Barros, Remberto "Bobby" de la Paz, Edgar "Edjop" Jopson, Emmanuel "Eman" Lacaba, and Abraham "Ditto" Sarmiento Jr. "A young batch indeed but never too young. They were young: too young to die, too young to carry the complacency of a slumbering people, too young to suffer tyrants. They deserved to live." -from the introduction.

Teodoro M. Kalaw's Spiritual Register

News Columns La Vanguardia 1926-27

By Nick Joaquin, translator

National Artist for Literature Nick Joaquin translates the original Spanish texts of TM Kalaw's commentaries and observations of the manners and ideas of his time via a daily column he was commissioned to write in the La Vanguardia, "Mi Pahina Diaria" (My Daily Page).

The Centennial Countdown

By Ambeth Ocampo

A collection of the historical vignettes published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer one hundred days before the celebration of the centennial of Philippine independence.

The Erap Tragedy

Tales From The Snake Pit

By Aprodocio A. Laquian and Eleonor R. Laquian

An insider/outsider look at the aborted Estrada presidency. The book probes into the factors that caused Estrada's downfall: his persona, mistresses and mansions, his personalized decision-making style, the powers of the Philippine presidency and the Filipino political culture that makes corruption inevitable. A unique feature of the book is the startling view of life inside the Malacañang "snake pit."

The Fall Of Joseph Estrada

The Inside Story

By Amando Doronila

Co-published by Inquirer Books

An insider's view of the events that led to the fall of a popular and charismatic leader who introduced into the presidency an unconventional, if not vulgar, style of leadership. It recounts the last 100 days in office of Joseph Estrada, extending up to the accession to the presidency of Vice President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, and concluding with the so-called Edsa Tres staged by Estrada supporters who stormed Malacañang on May 1, 2001.

The Gallant Filipino

Expanded Edition

By Teofisto Guingona

Short biographies of some of our great but forgotten heroes: Jose Abad Santos, Benito Soliven, Rafael Roces, Tomas Confesor, Jesus Villamor, Edgar jopson, Benigno Aquino, Cesar Climaco and Robin Garcia.

To Suffer Thy Comrades

How The Revolution Decimated Its Own

By Robert Francis Garcia

A riveting account of the Communist Party of the Philippines' "killing fields" sheds light on the darkest and deepest secrets of the revolutionary movement.

Vestiges Of War

By Angel Shaw and Luis Francia, editors

A stunning collection of essays, poems, plays and artworks by prominent writers and artists and their takes on the Philippine-American War. With contributions by Alfredo Navarro Salanga, Eric Gamalinda, Jessica Hagedorn, Bienvenido Lumbera, the late Doreen G. Fernandez, and Renato Constantino. Works of acclaimed visual artists such as Santiago Bose, Bencab, Brenda Fajardo, and Antipas Delotavo provide compelling imagery for the essays.

We're History!

A Collection Of Essays On Culture And History

By Barbara Gonzalez

If there is anything Gonzalez would like the readers to remember from her book, she asks that it be this: "I think history asks for a love sensual enough to attract us to the edge and there tempt us to leap; intellectual enough to know that nothing is insurmountable if we put our minds to it; spiritual enough to give us courage to throw ourselves into the void trusting the process of transformation and its outcome. This is the love of Rizal felt for his family, his Josephine - and most of all - his country."

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