
NEWS
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 The Arcellana clan is inviting literature lovers to the book launch of
Regarding Franz, edited by Dr. Elizabeth Arcellana-Nuqui and Prof.
Lydia Rodriguez-Arcellana and published by the University of the
Philippines Press.
The
volume is a rich collection of memories of National Artist Franz
Arcellana from colleagues like fellow National Artists Nick Joaquin and
Virgilio Almario; writer-friends like Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo,
Jose Y. Dalisay Jr., and Gemino Abad; former students; and family
members as well, including a loving tribute from his widow Dr.
Emerenciana Arcellana. Regarding Franz also features poems written for
Franz, incisive interviews, and photographs provided by the
Arcellana family.
The book is a solid testament to the art and
life of one of the most beloved National Artists and perhaps one of the
most influential fictionists the country has ever produced, according
to novelist Charlson Ong. Anecdotes of generosity and flashes of his
personality provide glimpses into Arcellana, the founding director of
the UP Creative Writing Center (now Institute), the man and the artist.
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.
Arvin Abejo Mangohig

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) 36th 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.

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