Helping Global Pinoys Discover their Heritage
Title: LA OROSA
The biography of the woman who founded the acclaimed Filipinescas Dance Company. The Filipino choreographer melded balletic, interpretive, native and Oriental dance styles and the discipline of Western art dance with Filipino ethnic dance.
Price: $17.00
Author: Nick Joaquin
Anvil Publishing, Metro Manila, 1994, p.200
Title: THE GALLANT FILIPINO
With this book, Senator Tino Guingona reinforces a sadly neglected area of Philippine life: the cult of heroes. He takes the life of different Filipinos, from different levels, interests and time frames, and holds them up as role models for a new generation.
Price: $14.00
Author: Tito Guingona
Anvil Publishing, Metro Manila, 1993, p.221
Title: THE GUERREROS OF ERMITA
The author wrote this book to show the accomplishments of his relatives, but not to take them seriously. He describes an imaginary family coat-of-arms: an all-white background with three words splashed across it – Nada, Nothing, Walang-wala.
Price: $9.50
Author: Wildfredo Maria Guerrero
New Day Publishers, Quezon City, 1988, p.145
Title: THE LAVAS: A Filipino Family
The Lavas succeeded in giving the educated Filipino middle class another option besides the blind acceptance of the status quo.
Price: $15.50
Author: Jose Y. Dalisay, Jr.
Anvil Publishing, Metro Manila, 1999, p.169
Title: BATAAN: Death March Capas
The author was drafted and inducted into the United States Armed Forces in the Far East, fought in Bataan, and survived the Death March. ” … found himself and his Filipino comrades completely ignored after the war …”
Price: $11.95
Author: Corban K. Alabado
Sulu Books, San Francisco, 1995.
Title: BEAUTIFUL DREAMER
A family biography written with the historical background of the Commonwealth government under the United States and the WWII Japanese Occupation of the Philippines.
Price: $12.95
Author: Alabado, Ceres S.C
Sulu Books, San Francisco, 1995, p.182
Philippine Native Songs: Piano with Lyrics and Guitar Chords
This publication features familiar Philippine native songs with lyrics and guitar chords and includes piano accompaniment. One way of immortalizing a nation’s culture is through the preservation of its music—songs that celebrate the seasons and cycles of life, rhythms for dancing, and melodies that express man’s continuing interaction.
Price: $12.00
Author: Carmelita V. Jose
Sound Publishing Corp. p.71
Title: REPORTAGE ON CRIME
The 13 narratives in this anthology of true crime stories transcend journalism by attempting analyses of character, motive, period and ambiance. What emerges is a fascinating decade—1960s Manila. Quijano de Manila is the other name for Nick Joaquin (National Artist for Literaure) who had a journalistic career that spanned decades.
Price: $7.50
Author: Quijano de Manila
Anvil Publishing, 2009, p.243
Title: Breaking Through
“I wrote this book because I want to understand my political past. The conclusions I have drawn are guideposts for my political future.”–Joel
Price: $10.00
Author: Joel Rocamora
Pasig. Anvil. 1996, p.225
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