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UP PRESS TO LAUNCH NEW ALMARIO BOOK

The UP Press and the College of Arts and Letters, UP Diliman, are proud to host "Panayam Bulawan" by CSSP Dean Zosimo Lee and the book launching of Muling-Pagkatha sa Ating Bansa; O Bakit Pinakamahabang Tulay sa Buong Mundo ang Tulay Calumpit by National Artist for Literature Virgilio S. Almario. This will be on March 5 at the C.M. Recto Hall at the Bulwagang Rizal (beside Palma Hall). The double event will start at 2 p.m.

The blurb goes: Bakit pinakamahabàng tulay sa buong mundo ang Tulay Calumpit?  

Ang sagot: “Dahil pagtawid mo mula sa Calumpit, Bulacan, at may dalá kang itlog, pagdatíng mo sa kabilâ sa Apalit, Pampanga, ang itlog mo ay ‘ebon’ na.”  

“Itinatanghal ng palaisipang-bayang ito,” ayon sa may-akda, “ang mga espasyong nakapagitan at naghihiwalay sa mga bayan, mga lalawigan, mga rehiyon, at mga pulo sa buong Filipinas.”  

Sa kalipunang ito ng mga sanaysay hinggil sa nasyonalismo, kasaysayan, edukasyon, wika, at panitikan, nagmumungkahi ang Pambansang Alagad ng Sining kung paano lilikha ng mga bagong tulay sa pagbuo ng pambansang kultura na higit na magbibigkis sa bayan at magpapaigting ng ating pagkabansa.

Buyers will enjoy a 20 percent discount off the retail price and will have the honor of meeting the prolific National Artist Almario. The public is cordially invited.

UP PRESS TO LAUNCH AGAW DILIM, AGAW LIWANAG

Lualhati M. Abreu will be launching her book Agaw Dilim, Agaw Liwanag on January 29 at the UP Press Bookstore in Balay Kalinaw, UP Diliman. The launch will start at 3 p.m. and is sponsored by the First Quarter Storm Movement.

Agaw Dilim, Agaw Liwanag won the Gawad Likhaan: UP Centennial Literary Awards creative nonfiction category. The other winners of the Gawad Likhaan like Jerry Gracio’s Aves and Jose Marte Abueg’s Bird Lands, River Nights and Other Melancholies have also been published by the UP Press.

Says critic Caroline Hau: “Ang Agaw-dilim, Agaw-liwanag—kagila-gilalas na talambuhay ni Lualhati M. Abreu—aktibista, peminista, gerilya, at manggagawang pangkultura—ay malalim na nakahabi sa kasaysayan ng mga pakikibakang mapagpalaya sa Pilipinas nitong huling sandaang taon. 

Ang salaysay na ito ng isang tagaloob ukol sa mga ugat, pagpapanimula, paglawak, krisis, at mga tagumpay ng kontemporaneong kilusang rebolusyonaryo ay namumukod hindi lamang dahil sa mga suring-tanaw nito sa mga tao, lugar, at pangyayari na humubog sa pulitikang radikal, kundi dahil rin sa walang-kurap nitong pagkaprangka at nanunuot na pagsudsod sa pait at tamis ng komitment at sakripisyo na nasa kaibuturan ng rebolusyonaryong pag-iisip at pagkilos.”

National Artist for Literature Bienvenido Lumbera also praised the work in its Gawad Likhaan Citation: “Walang pasubali na nagkaisa ang tatlong hurado ng Malikhaing Sanaysay na igawad kay Lualhati Abreu ang tanging gantimpala, tanda ng kanilang pagkilala sa saklaw at lalim ng pagtalakay sa kasaysayang pinaksa, at sa igting at hakab ng kanyang pagkasapol sa malanobelang teknik upang mailahad ang talambuhay ng isang babaeng matibay na isinabuhay ang kanyang rebolusyonaryong paninindigan sa akdang Agaw-dilim, Agaw-liwanag. Kahanga-hanga ang paggamit sa wika na buong linaw na nakapagtanghal sa mga pangyayari at tauhang gumalaw sa naratibo ng kanyang karanasan bilang aktibista at rebolusyonarya. Ibayo ang itinaas ng pamantayan sa pagsusulat ng malikhaing sanaysay sa wikang Filipino bunga ng praktika ni Bb. Abreu.”

Abreu does research work and writing for non-government organizations in Metro Manila and Mindanao. She is taking up History at the UP Diliman.

Arvin Abejo Mangohig

UP PRESS HOLDS DECEMBER SALE

The University of the Philippines Press will have its annual sale on December 1-18, 2009. Enjoy up to 80 percent discounts on our renowned publications as well as titles included in the UPP Centennial Publications and our new collection of books for the year 2009.

Come and visit the University of the Philippines Press Bookstore at E. delos Santos Street, UP Diliman Campus, Quezon City or at the Balay Kalinaw G/F Dagohoy, cor. Guerrero Street. See the map here.

Enjoy your Christmas shopping at the UP Press Bookstore!

For other 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 LAUNCHES NEW TITLES FOR 2009

The University of the Philippines Press will launch its new titles for the second half of the year 2009. The event, dubbed Paglulunsad 2009: Ikalawang Yugto, will be held on November 23, 2009, 5:00 pm at the Balay Kalinaw located at Guerrero corner Dagohoy Streets, UP Diliman, Quezon City.

The literary titles are Aves by Jerry Gracio; Bird Lands, River Nights, and Other Melancholies by Jose Marte Abueg; Balisa: Trilohiya ng mga Dulang may Tatlong Yugto by Reuel Molina Aguila and XXth Century: 2 Plays by Malou Jacob; Looking for the Philippines: Travel Essays by Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo; Regarding Franz edited by Elizabeth Arcellana Nuqui and Lydia Rodriguez Arcellana; and Philippine Short Stories (1941-1955) Part I (1941-1949) edited by Leopoldo Yabes (Centennial edition).           

The scholarly titles are Pag-aklas, Pagbaklas, Pagbagtas: Kritikal na Kritisismong Pampanitikan by Rolando Tolentino;  Kalusugang Pampubliko sa Kolonyal na Maynila 1898-1918 by Ronaldo Mactal; Unplugging the Constitution by Florin Ternal Hilbay; A Satire of Two Nations: Exploring Images of the Japanese in Philippine Political Cartoons by Helen Yu-Rivera; "Women's Common Destiny": Maternal Representations in the Cebuano Serialized Fiction of Hilda Montaire and Austregelina Espina-Moore by Hope Sabanpan-Yu; Philippine Studies: Have We Gone Beyond St. Louis? edited by Priscelina Patajo-Legasto; and Huwaran/Hulmahan Atbp: The Film Writings of Johven Velasco edited by Joel David. 

Buyers at the launch will enjoy a 20 percent discount on all the new titles. Authors will also be on hand to autograph copies of their books. For inquiries regarding the launch, contact Ange at 926-6642 and press@up.edu.ph.

UPP GOES TO BAGUIO FOR PMA BOOK FAIR

The University of The Philippines Press will be joining the 15th Annual Book Fair of the Philippine Military Academy together with other publishers and book dealers on November 9-13 at the Lecture Hall B, PMA Fort del Pilar, Baguio City.

Please come and visit the University of the Philippines Press booth. Available for sale are our renowned publications, as well as some titles included in the UPP Centennial Publications and new titles for the year 2009.

The event is organized by the Learning Resource Center, Headquarters Academic Group of the Philippine Military Academy (pma_library@yahoo.com).

For other inquiries regarding the event, please call the University of The Philippines Press at (02) 926-6642 or e-mai us at press@up.edu.ph.

REGARDING FRANZ BOOK LAUNCH IN UP DILIMAN

Regarding Franz will be launched on October 27, 2009 (Tuesday), 3 p.m. at the Bulwagang Rizal (Faculty Center) in UP Diliman.

Arvin Abejo Mangohig

FINALISTS FOR THE 28th NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS ANNOUNCED

Four University of the Philippines Press titles have been announced as finalists for this year's National Book Awards by the NBDB and the Manila Critics Circle (MCC). The winners will be announced during the awarding ceremonies which will be held on November 14 at the Ayala Museum.

The categories and UPP titles are as follows: Literary Criticism/Literary History
From Globalization to National Liberation: Essays of Three Decades by Epifanio San Juan, Jr.; Our Scene So Fair: Filipino Poetry in English, 1905 to 1955 by Gémino H. Abad; Science Solid Waste Management: Principles and Practices by Filemon A. Uriarte, Jr.; and Selected Essays on Science and Technology for Securing a Better Philippines, Volume I, edited by Gisela P. Padilla-Concepcion, Eduardo A. Padlan, and Caesar A. Saloma. 

            

                                        

 Click here for the complete lists of finalists and judges.

UP PRESS REPRINTS THE MORO ISLAMIC CHALLENGE

In time for the first anniversary this October 14 of the Supreme Court decision invalidating the controversial GRP-MILF Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD), the University of the Philippines Press has released its second printing of human rights lawyer and legal scholar Soliman M. Santos, Jr.’s 2001 book The Moro Islamic Challenge: Constitutional Rethinking for the Mindanao Peace Process.  The book had been out of stock for several years now, and more demand for it came in the aftermath of the MOA-AD decision.

After the MOA-AD breakdown in the GRP-MILF peace negotiations, which only recently resumed, there has been a felt need for new ways forward, still in the spirit of “open(ing) new formulas that permanently          respond to the aspirations of the Bangsamoro people for freedom.” This book, as originally published, still offers a few ways forward, formulas or ideas, different from but complementary to the track taken with the MOA-AD, so that it may be possible to develop an alternative track for Bangsamoro self-determination that is both politically and constitutionally feasible.  For one thing, the MOA-AD debacle has proven one key thesis of this book that the Moro Islamic challenge warrants not only a negotiated political settlement but also a negotiated constitutional settlement that go hand in hand.

Long-time UP Political Science Professor Temario Rivera, in material published post-MOA-AD last year, described the book as “The most systematic work of constitutional rethinking and innovation to accommodate an Islamic system in the Philippines.”  Then UP Law Dean Raul Pangalangan, in his 2001 Foreword to the book, described it as “… the singular work in Philippine legal scholarship that confronts what is emerging to be a universal dilemma, that of acknowledging Islam within the liberal state… It will be useful for many: for the traditional lawyer, who wishes to see the overlapping domains of domestic and international law, of human rights and humanitarian law, of local and comparative laws;… and for scholars and students, who see law as a way of reimagining alternative futures for a world that longs for daring and imagination.”

The book is now available at the UP Press Book Store in Balay Kalinaw, UP Diliman, Quezon City, the UP Press Display Room on E. de los Santos St, UP Diliman, and other major book stores at a retail price of P300.

THE LIFE AND WORKS OF MARCELO ADONAY CONCERT LAUNCH AT THE UP THEATER

The UP Theater lobby was filled to the brim with music lovers from all over the Philippines when The Life and Works of Marcelo Adonay was launched last September 17. Elena Rivera Mirano, College of Arts and Letters dean and the book's editor, was all too happy that the lights came back on after a brief rainstorm cut off power in parts of the UP campus. They were prepared to sing by candlelight, it was said.

UP Press Director Luisa Camagay started with a short speech introducing the book. Mirano then told the story of the labor of love that was this book, coming to Pakil, Laguna almost a decade ago and marvelling at the statue of Adonay, baton in hand, deservedly glorified as local hero. She and her team       of music scholars saved "parts of parts, pieces of pieces, fragments of fragments..." by scouring through private collections. Some manuscripts had been damaged by floods. Some had been doomed to be burned. Eleven musical scores and ten years after, the book was launched, first at the Paglulunsad 2009 at the Vargas Museum last July with eleven other UP Press titles.

Edna Marcil Martinez, co-editor, went on to explain the particular problems of "realizing" the sound Adonay had in his head. The pieces had not been performed for some fifty to one hundred years. The quirky parts of the winds and brass were too "malikot." The atmosphere of the Gloria from Pequena Misa Solemne was not quite right, and in some works, Marcelo Adonay, himself an excellent violist,  had disappointingly not written out a viola part.

The music part of the programs were performed by the Marcelo Adonay Choir, The UP Cherubim and Seraphim, and the UP Orchestra Chamber Enesemble. Soloists were Nita Abrogar Quinto, Ralph Tayan, and Ramon Acoymo. Standouts were Acoymo, who filled the spacious lobby with his glorious tenor, and the thrilling Gloria. 

National Artists for Literature Virgilio S. Almario and Bienvenido Lumbera were present. Also seen were College of Mass Communications dean Rolando Tolentino, KontraGapi's Edru Abraham, and music great Ramon Santos. Delegates from Pakil, Batangas, and Bohol also came.

The Life and Works of Marcelo Adonay is available at the UP Press Bookstore and Display Room. The softbound edition is priced at P1,200 and the hardbound edition at P1,800. A second volume, now with fifteen scores, is already being worked on, a fitting tribute to Maestro Adonay and Philippine music in general.

UP Press to join ALBASA Book Sale in Cebu

The University of the Philippines Press will be joining the book fair at the Academic Libraries Book Acquisition Systems Inc (ALBASA Inc) 36^th Annual General Assembly together with other publishers and book dealers on May 19-21 at the Cebu Grand Convention Center, Banilad, Cebu City  

Come and visit the University of the Philippines Press booth. Available for sale are our renowned publications, as well as titles included in the UPP Centennial Publications launched last December 2008.

For inquiries regarding the event, please call the ALBASA office at (032) 2540691. You may also call the University of the Philippines Press at (02) 926-6642.

Visit ALBASA's website at http://www.albasainc.org/.
 

Animal breeding book among 100 launched by UP Press                

Animal Breeding Principles and Practice in the Philippine Context was one of 100 titles launched by the UP Press on Dec. 12 at the Malcolm Hall in UP Diliman to showcase UP’s rich contribution to Philippine literature and scholarship in the humanities and the sciences. Dr. Orville Bondoc, book author, is a professor in animal breeding and genetics at the CA-Animal and Dairy Sciences Cluster.

The book discusses principles of genetics with emphasis on breeding goals and procedures to improve economically important traits in animal breeding populations. The book highlights results of local animal breeding research helpful in designing animal breeding strategies for major farm animal species.

UP President Emerlinda R. Roman said that the authors’ work “is not always as noticed or as high profile (as other activities that were held to mark the UP Centennial) but is more representative of what UP as a university stands for. In the end, the measure of a university’s strength is the respect accorded its scholars and artists. 

The book will be available by the second half of the year.

Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo’s Fabulists and Chroniclers

The UP Press announces that Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo’s latest book, Fabulists and Chroniclers, is now available at UP Press Bookstore in Diliman, National Book Stores and Powerbooks. 


The book contains critical comments on such contemporary issues as: How do memoirs and travel essays function as social history? How do Filipino women writers “perform” the modern wonder tale? Is Latin American fiction the source of Philippine marvelous realism or are our own novelists mining a more powerful, native lode? Have its close connections with academe enriched or diminished Philippine literature in English?

In what may be her most provocative book, Hidalgo also takes a look at chick lit, the modern crime novel, and the literary blog.

But what the ordinary reader—the non-specialist reader who just likes reading books by Filipino authors—may find most useful and interesting is the essay which traces the development of Philippine fiction in English from its beginnings in the early 20th century to its most recent developments in the work of such young writers as Kit Kwe and Anna Sanchez. This essay should serve as a crash course on the state of the Philippine novel and the short story in English today.

The cover design and artwork is by young artist Rex Dasig Aguilar. The book retails at P250.

Hidalgo has published more than 20 books of fiction and creative nonfiction, for which she has won many awards. She served as director of the UP Institute of Creative Writing and the UP Press. At present she is Vice President for Public Affairs of the UP System.

UP Press releases unique example of journalism as history The University of the Philippines Press announces the release of “1908—The Way It Really Was” by Raul Rafael Ingles. Subtitled Historical Journal for the UP Centennial 1908-2008, the volume is a day-to-day chronicle of events and issues which unfolded within the year of UP’s founding. Ingles, UP professor emeritus, conceived of the book as tribute to the University he has served faithfully for many years. It compresses 365 days into less than 400 pages, and offers an immensely interesting record of the year 1908. The events covered range from the insignificant and amusing to the momentous. The volume opens with an account of the New Year’s eve “midnight revelry” from the Manila Times and closes with the 12th anniversary of the death of Jose Rizal and an announcement of New Year celebrations in Malacañang. The book’s foreword is by UP President Emerlinda Roman, who says of it that “every single item is fascinating,” and praises the “discerning mind, historical sense and literary flair” of the man who “had the imagination and the diligence to undertake the laborious research and writing of this extremely interesting book.” In his short introduction, National Historical Institute chair, Ambeth Ocampo notes that “the past becomes relevant to our times, because history as he presents it sounds strangely, and sometimes painfully, familiar.” Perhaps the unintended wisdom the thinking Filipino will glean from its pages is that the more things change in the Philippines, the more they stay the same. Ocampo adds that the book is an engaging read, proving that “history is interesting and if you think otherwise, you probably have had a boring textbook or a boring teacher.” Finally, in an afterword, National Artist for Literature and UP professor emeritus Bienvenido Lumbera observes in his postscript that the book is “both history and journalism,” adding that it “causes us to ponder the early years of the American occupation of the country and to look beyond 1908 to UP’s emergence as an intellectual center of vital relevance to the development of national consciousness of the Filipino people.” The hardcover edition sells at P800 and is available at the UP Press Bookstore in UP Diliman. Arvin Abejo Mangohig

EDITING THE 100 UP PRESS CENTENNIAL TITLES Having been brought on board to help in the editing of the UP Press Centennial titles last July 2008, I was not sure of what to expect. I had heard of the Centennial titles project, an ambitious endeavor which would bring together 100 books from the realms of science, the social sciences, the humanities and of course literature. This was a gargantuan task, with a thousand spinning parts and details needed to ensure success: contacting authors, editing and proofreading, getting the right look for the book covers etc. The world at large may not know the work that is needed to come up with a book. It is a collaborative effort, both tedious and time-consuming and does not end with just the finished product, something I was well aware of. But I had to say yes to the project, conceived by the UP Press editorial board and the titles selected by panels of experts in each field, a process which took almost a year. It was a great opportunity and a complete turnaround from my almost dilettante life working three part-time jobs. A 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. schedule, a Bundy clock to chase and answer to, a nice gray desk and a blinded view of the E. de los Santos would be a fine change of environs. Back then, there was already talk of a weakening global economy and Barack Hussein Obama had not changed the world yet. The UP Press would afford some security and continuity, I decided. My contribution to the project would also be my way of saying thank you to UP, its tradition of excellence and the professors whom I had encountered in my long stay and love affair with the campus and its denizens. After all, it is not everyday that one gets to edit former professors like Rosario Cruz Lucero, who can reduce Haruki Murakami into sashimi slices or J. Neil Garcia, whose three hour graduate studies lectures deserve tomes unto themselves. My editorial qualifications were not half bad. I was reared memorizing the King James Version of the Bible, had two English Major degrees from UP, had gone AWOL from my PhD and had UP Press itself publish my book of poetry. I had worked for the Press before and must have set some Guinness Book of World Record of sorts, editing six manuscripts in the span of around twenty working days, including those of two authors who would eventually make it to the Centennial list: the legendary Damiana Eugenio and the equally voluminous O.D. Corpuz. I also set another record: number of trips to the desk of Nelia Gahol, chief of the editorial division, asking for the Press’ policies on formatting and spelling: numbers below 100 are spelled out… UP has no periods… and so does USA… too many ellipses are bad. So going to work on the centennial titles was not all bad. But things had changed at the UP Press since I had worked there a few years ago. The printing machines had stopped their grinding, standing still, grim and dusty; sadly, printing was no longer done in-house. The TOKI and the IKOT jeeps now plied their routes right at our very doorstep and window sills, whereas before I had considered the Press’ building location isolated and verging almost on provincial. Architecture students would romp and rouse across our windows, like birds in punk colors. And the Editorial Section, a roomy and well-lighted space, now had blue modular offices, a legacy of color from former UP Press director—herself a Centennial title author—Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo. My desk was right beside the office of Director Maria Luisa Camagay, her infectious, musical laughter indicating she was in. My first manuscript was Orville Bondoc’s Animal Breeding, a comprehensive guide and a contribution to the topic from the renowned UPLB scientist. I quickly moved on to other manuscripts like F. Landa Jocano’s Sulod Society, Hidalgo’s Fabulists and Chroniclers, Selected Essays on Science and Technology for Securing a Better Philippines and others which were not really Centennial titles (I was just too fast and six months of work can be infinity itself). One manuscript I particularly enjoyed was Priscelina Patajo-Legasto’s Philippine Studies: Have We Gone Beyond St. Louis?, a compendium of essays written by some of the most brilliant minds in the country. Here, Rolando Tolentino discusses dog-eating, using the lens of postcolonialism and the theory of abjection to dissect both the cultural practice and the Western cultural practices which attempt to commandeer dog-eating. In “Filipinos are Punny,” Sarita Echavez See comes up with a rollicking essay using Fil-American stand-up comedian Rex Navarette’s shtick and the way Filipinos conflate p and f. Francisco Guevara’s discourse ironically matches Conchitina Cruz’s ethereal Dark Hours and does one better, examining both the theoretical and physical in a heady mix of praxis and actual place. The grand launch of the Centennial titles was held at the UP College of Law last December 12. I got to see the actual Damiana Eugenio in her actual flesh. National Arists Virgilio Almario and F. Sionil Jose graced the event, as did the widows of National Artists Francisco Arcellana and NVM Gonzalez, and Letizia Constantino, widow of Renato Constantino. UP President Emerlinda Roman imparted wise words: “The measure of a university’s strength is the respect accorded its scholars and artists. And there can be no better proof of the originality, creativity and importance of a university’s intellectual and artistic output than the list of the books produced by its publishing house.” And so UP’s centennial year passed, Obama was inaugurated, and January 2009 was ripped off our complimentary blue and red calendars. I sit at a desk surrounded by books fifty years old, face to face with the Marxism of Bomen Guillermo, watching him lock mental horns with Zeus Salazar and Pantayong Pananaw. They say that one of the few ways to become immortal is to write a book. In the face of the Internet, even that alleged immortality a book affords is doubtful; what with the viral spread of electronic formats stealing the royalties and copyright of authors. Against time and technology’s inevitability, only a few things can survive and are worthy of that survival. One hundred years later, one hopes that the UP Press 100 Centennial titles will survive and that the editor sitting at the very spot I am in will also be working on the next 100. Arvin Abejo Mangohig

UP PRESS CELEBRATES WITH GRAND LAUNCH The University of the Philippines Press ended the UP Centennial year with a grand launch of 100 titles that showcase the university’s rich contribution to Philippine literature and scholarship in the humanities, the sciences and the social sciences. Many of these authors were present at the Malcolm Hall, UP Diliman, to receive their certificates of recognition from UP president Emerlinda Roman and UP Press director Ma. Luisa Camagay. The UP Press takes pride in the fact that most of its titles are by the university’s own distinguished scholars, writers and artists. Among the Centennial titles are classics: “Muslims in the Philippines” by Cesar Adib Majul (1973); “The Roots of the Filipino Nation, Vols. 1 & 2” by O.D. Corpuz (2006); “The Origins and Rise of the Filipino Novel: A Generic Study of the Novel Until 1940” by Resil B. Mojares (1983); “The Revolt of the Masses: The Story of Bonifacio and the Katipunan” by Teodoro A. Agoncillo (1996); “Ang Bagong Lumipas, Vols. 1 & 2” by Renato Constantino (1996); the best-selling folk literature volumes by Damiana Eugenio; the short story anthologies edited by Leopoldo Yabes; the literary and scholarly works of National Artists NVM Gonzalez, Francisco Arcellana, José Maceda, Bienvenido Lumbera, Virgilio Almario and Edith Tiempo. Some are groundbreaking editions: “From Colonial to Liberation Psychology: The Philippine Experience” by Virgilio Enriquez; “Philippine Gay Culture: The Last 30 Years” by J. Neil Garcia (1996); “Protest / Revolutionary Art in the Philippines 1970-1990” by Alice G. Guillermo (2001); “Sa Loob at Labas ng Mall Kong Sawi/Kaliluha’y Siyang Nangyaya-ring Hari: Ang Pagkatuto at Pagtatanghal ng Kulturang Popular” by Roland B. Tolentino (2001); “Treading Through: 45 Years of Philippine Dance” by Basilio Esteban S. Villaruz (2007); “Tunugan: Four Essays on Filipino Music” by Ramon P. Santos (2005). And some are new titles released this year: “Arkitekturang Filipino: A History of Architecture and Urbanism in the Philippines” by Gerard Lico; “Animal Breeding: Principles and Practice in the Philippine Context” by Orville Bondoc; “Fundamentals of Traffic Engineering” by Ricardo G. Sigua; “Selected Essays on Science and Technology for Securing a Better Philippines” edited by Caesar Saloma and Giselle Concepcion; “Upon Our Own Ground: Filipino Short Stories in English 1956-1972, Vols. 1 and 2,” edited by Gèmino H. Abad; “Philippine Studies: Have We Gone Beyond St. Louis?” edited by Priscelina Patajo Legasto In her message, Roman said: “The work you do here is not always as noticed or as appreciated as it should be. It is not as high-profile as, for example, “Pamantasang Hirang,” our Centennial concert, or the grand opening of the UP-Ayala Techno Hub. And yet it is, perhaps, more representative of what we as a university stand for. It is steady, consistent, careful and cumulative.” “In the end,” she added, “the measure of a university’s strength is the respect accorded its scholars and artists. And there can be no better proof of the originality, creativity and importance of a university’s intellectual and artistic output than the list of the books produced by its publishing house.” National Artists for Literature Virgilio Almario and F. Sionil José graced the event, as did the widows of National Artists Francisco Arcellana and NVM Gonzalez, and Letizia Constantino, widow of Renato Constantino. Also present were former UP Press directors Elmer Ordoñez and Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo, and FEU chair of the board Lourdes Reyes-Montinola, themselves among the authors being honored. The 100 UP Centennial Titles Project was conceived by the UP Press editorial board. The titles were selected by panels of experts in each field, a process which took almost a year. View the Centennial Titles Arvin Abejo Mangohig

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