UP PRESS GOES TO THE MIBF

The University of the Philippines Press (UPP) will be joining the Manila International Book Fair on September 15-19, 2010 at the SMX Convention Center, Mall of Asia.

Come and visit the UPP booth. Available for sale are our renowned publications, as well as the titles recently launched by the UPP in the first half of 2010 which include Muling-Pagkatha sa Ating Bansa by Virgilio S. Almario, Commend Contend/Beyond Extensions by Edith L. Tiempo, Underground Spirit: Philippine Short Stories in English 1973 to 1989, Volumes I and II by Gèmino Abad, Agaw-dilim, Agaw-liwanag by Lualhati Milan Abreu, Elementary Statistics by Josefina Almeda, et al., Favorite Arcellana Stories by Emerenciana Y. Arcellana (Ed.), Frontier Constitutions by John D. Blanco, Lost and Found and Other Essays by Rica Bolipata-Santos, Sundays in Manila by Robert H. Boyer, Siglo: A Hundred Years of the PGH in the Service of the Filipino People by Jose Luis J. Danguilan, M.D., et al., UP Diliman: Home and Campus by Narita Gonzalez and Gerardo Los Baños (Eds.), The Sky Over Dimas by Vicente Garcia Groyon, Bibliography of Filipino Novels by Patricia May Jurilla, Poultry Production in the Tropics by Angel L. Lambio (Ed.), UP in the Time of People Power by Ferdinand Llanes (Ed.), The Forest by William Pomeroy, Teaching and Learning in the Health Sciences by Erlyn A. Sana (Ed.), The Muslim South and Beyond by Samuel K. Tan, The Americanization of Manila by Cristina E. Torres and Sarena’s Story by Criselda Yabes.

For inquiries, please call the University of the Philippines Press at (02) 926-6642, email press@up.edu.ph, or visit our website at http://uppress.com.ph.

UP PRESS TO LAUNCH TWO NEW BOOKS

The UP Press will be launching Frontier Constitutions by John D. Blanco on August 24, 2010, 2:30 pm at the Faculty Center, UP Diliman Campus. The book was launched last July 23, along with nineteen more titles.

Frontier Constitutions tackles everything from Jose Rizal's Noli me tangere to Balagtas's metrical romance. Frontier Consitutions also takes on Christianity as a colonial/colonizing power. Blanco writes: "The exemption of religious authorities from laws under the monarch's rule ... reflected the conviction that the monarchy itself was an instrument of a higher will and that, in cases of emergency or expediency, this higher will had to be upheld by the spritual power and its direct earthly representatives, not the monarch."

Blanco teaches Latin American, Philippine, and US comparative literature and cultural studies at the University of California, San Diego. In addition to Frontier Constitutions, he has published essays examining colonial and postcolonial histories and cultures. His current research examines the rise of divergent worldviews and ethical dispositions in the Americas and the Philippines during the sixteenth and seventeeth centuries.

Meanwhile, The Urian Anthology 1990-1999 edited by Nicanor G. Tiongson will be launched on September 15, 2010, 5:00 pm at the Balay Kalinaw, UP Diliman Campus.

The Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino has collected its members' representative film reviews in a series of anthologies, the latest of which is this volume. It is a richly illustrated volume which encourages further research and study of Filipino cinema. Published by the UP Press and with the support of the Film Development Council of the Philippines, The Urian Anthology is a must have for scholars and cineastes everywhere.

Tiongson is a well-known critic and academician. He is a former dean of the College of Mass Communications, UP Diliman and was artistic director of the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

UP PRESS REPRINTS TWO AWARD-WINNING BOOKS

As part of its 2010 titles, the UP Press has reprinted Beyond, Extensions/Commend Contend by National Artist Edith Tiempo and The Sky over Dimas by Vicente Garcia Groyon.

Beyond, Extensions is paired with Tiempo’s newest poetry collection: Commend Contend. In his introduction, poet Alfred Yuson praises the poems in Commend Contend for their wizened bounty and magnanimity. Gemino Abad wrote the introduction for Beyond, Extensions in 1993 and underlined her invigorating presence in Philippine literature in English. The two collections offer a fascinating insight to the growth and artistic trajectory of one of the Philippines’ most enduring women writers.

Meanwhile, Dimas has won the Grand Prize for the Novel, Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards, the Madrigal-Gonzalez Best First Book Award, and the Manila Critics Circle National Book Award. The Sunday Inquirer Magazine called it “a gripping, sleek read.” Ficitonist and critic Rosario Cruz Lucero agreed and says that the novel is an “ambitious, high-wire act . . . written in consistently flawless and elegant prose.”

The UP Press has also published Groyon’s collection of short stories, On Cursed Ground and Other Stories. Groyon teaches at De La Salle University-Manila.

Tiempo is the lone female National Artist for Literature. She is a multi-awarded poet and fictionist who conducts the famed Silliman Writers Workshop in Dumaguete City with her husband. Among her other works are A Blade of Fern, 1978, The Native Coast, 1979, and The Alien Corn, 1992; the poetry collections, The Tracts of Babylon and Other Poems, 1966, and The Charmer's Box and Other Poems, 1993; and the short story collection Abide Joshua, and Other Stories, 1964.

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THE UP PRESS BOOKSTORE HAS MOVED

The UP Press Balay Kalinaw Bookstore has moved to the UPP main office located at E. delos Santos Street, UP Diliman campus near the College of Architecture and the police station.

It can be accessed directly by the Toki jeepney route; riders of the Ikot jeeps can get off at the College of Fine Arts and walk straight through to Lakandula Street. Those coming from Philcoa can get off at the first waiting shed of the Academic Oval and walk to the right for a few hundred meters.

See the map here.

Thank you for your continued patronage.

PAGLULUNSAD 2010: UNANG YUGTO

The University of the Philippines Press will be launching twenty-one new titles for the first half of the year 2010. The event, dubbed Paglulunsad 2010: Unang Yugto, will be held on July 23, 2010, 5:00 PM at the Balay Kalinaw located at Guerrero corner Dagohoy Streets, UP Diliman, Quezon City.

The authors and their titles are:

Prof. Virgilio S. Almario

Muling-Pagkatha sa Ating Bansa

Dr. Robert H. Boyer

Sundays in Manila

Mrs. Narita Gonzalez

Prof. Gerardo Los Baños

UP Diliman: Home and Campus

Prof. Vicente Garcia Groyon

The Sky Over Dimas

Dr. Edith L. Tiempo

Commend Contend

Dr. Cristina E. Torres

Americanization of Manila

Ms. Criselda Yabes

Sarena’s Story

Ms. Lualhati Milan Abreu

Agaw-dilim, Agaw-liwanag

Dr. Emerenciana Y. Arcellana

Favorite Arcellana Stories

Dr. Ferdinand Llanes

UP in the Time of People Power

Dr. Jose Luis Danguilan, Dr. Rafael Bundoc, Mr. Jerome Ong, Dr. Phillip Aristotle Hermida

Siglo: A Hundred Years of the PGH in the Service of the Filipino People

Dr. John D. Blanco

Frontier Constitutions

Dr. Gémino Abad

Underground Spirit: Philippine Short Stories in English 1973-1989, Volume I, 1973 to 1982

Underground Spirit: Philippine Short Stories in English 1973-1989, Volume II, 1983 to 1989

Dr. Erlyn A. Sana

Teaching and Learning in the Health Sciences

Rica Bolipata-Santos

Lost and Found and Other Essays

William Pomeroy

The Forest

Dr. Samuel K. Tan

The Muslim South and Beyond

Dr. Angel L. Lambio

Poultry Production in the Tropics

Dr. Patricia May Jurilla

Bibliography of Filipino Novels

Prof. Josefina Venegas Almeda

Prof. Therese Garcia Capistrano

Prof. Genelyn Ma. Ferry Sarte

Elementary Statistics

For inquiries regarding the book launch, contact Cheenee at (02) 9266642 / press@up.edu.ph or visit our website at http://uppress.com.ph.

FRONTIER CONSTITUTIONS BY JOHN D. BLANCO NOW AVAILABLE

Frontier Constitutions: Christianity and Colonial Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines by scholar John D. Blanco is now available. Part of the Asia Pacific Modern series, Frontier Constitutions examines Christianity and colonialism, taking "a turn away from the strictly historiographic detailing of dates and events into cultural exploration and configuration," writes National Artist Bienvenido L. Lumbera. He continues: "The book explains the complex impact of Spanish hegemony on the consciousness of the native populace, using art works and litetrature as foundation of insights ..." Lumbera hails Blanco as "a major cultural historian whose innovative practice will profitably light the path of young scholars of the future."

The book tackles everything from Jose Rizal's Noli me tangere to Balagtas's metrical romance. Frontier Consitutions also takes on Christianity as a colonial/colonizing power. Blanco writes: "The exemption of religious authorities from laws under the monarch's rule ... reflected the conviction that the monarchy itself was an instrument of a higher will and that, in cases of emergency or expediency, this higher will had to be upheld by the spritual power and its direct earthly representatives, not the monarch."

Blanco teaches Latin American, Philippine, and US comparative literature and cultural studies at the University of California, San Diego. In addition to Frontier Constitutions, he has published essays examining colonial and postcolonial histories and cultures. His current research examines the rise of divergent worldviews and ethical dispositions in the Americas and the Philippines during the sixteenth and seventeeth centuries.

UP PRESS GOES TO ABAP BOOK FAIR THIS JULY

The University of the Philippines Press (UPP) will be joining the 14th Philippine Academic Book Fair on July 6-10, 2010 at SM Megamall.

Come and visit the UP Press booth. Available for sale are our renowned publications, as well as the titles launched by the UPP for the first half of 2010 which include: Muling-Pagkatha sa Ating Bansa by Virgilio S. Almario, Sundays in Manila by Robert H. Boyer, UP Diliman: Home and Campus by Narita Gonzalez and Gerardo Los Baños (Eds.), The Sky Over Dimas by Vicente Garcia Groyon, Commend Contend by Edith L. Tiempo, Americanization of Manila by Cristina E. Torres, Sarena's Story by Criselda Yabes, Agaw-dilim, Agaw-liwanag by Lualhati Milan Abreu, Favorite Arcellana Stories by Emerenciana Y. Arcellana (Ed.), and UP in the Time of People Power by Ferdinand Llanes.

See you there!

For inquiries, please call the University of the Philippines Press at (02) 926-6642, email press@up.edu.ph or visit our website at http://uppress.com.ph.

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BALISA: TRILOHIYA NG MGA DULANG MAY TATLONG YUGTO by Reuel M. Aguila

Winner of the
Gawad sa Natatanging Publikasyon
sa Filipino 2010
(from the UP Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs)