A Calendar of Rizaliana in the Vault of the Philippine National Library

Ambeth Ocampo

After completing the process of research and authentication that led to the publication of the drafts of Rizal’s hitherto unpublished third novel Makamisa, Ambeth Ocampo surveyed his field notes and discovered that he had completed an inventory of the precious and inaccessible Rizal manuscripts and materials in the vault of the Philippine National Library. Arranged chronologically to become a bibliographical calendar, this book is not a mere listing, but includes descriptive details, annotations, and even an abstract in English of most manuscripts.

Pasig City: Anvil Publishing, 1993

A Cofradia of Two: Oral History on the Family Life and Lay Religiosity of Juan D. Nepomuceno and Teresa G. Nepomuceno of Angeles, Pampanga

Erlita Mendoza

This is the story of a remarkable couple whose unlikely partnership helped build the first city of the Kapampangan Region—as told by their eight surviving children and two daughters-in-law. But it was really their unassailable family values, their love and their faith, and their belief in their hometown’s capacity for greatness, that will be the lasting legacy of this couple—the unforgettable Juan and his enigmatic wife Teresa.

Angeles City, Pampanga: Holy Angel University Juan D. Nepomuceno Center for Kapampangan Studies, 2004

A Companion Manual to Helping Our Children Do Well in School: 10 Successful Strategies from the Parents’ Best Practices Study of the Ateneo de Manila High School

Queena Lee-Chua, Ma. Isabel Sison-Dionisio

What makes students do well in school? A survey of more than 500 parents of honor students, athletes, student leaders, and students excelling in extracurricular activities, yielded 10 simple strategies for good parenting. This companion manual also covers other topics such as spotting possible learning disorders, checklists of child and parenting styles, computer addiction, the truth about the Chinese and math, and more.

Pasig City: Anvil Publishing, 2004

A Dictionary of Philippine Plant Names (Volumes I and II)

Domingo Madulid

This is the most comprehensive dictionary on Philippine plant names, with more than 43,300 vernacular names representing more than 97 languages and dialects in the country. It covers various groups of plants from algae, mosses, fungi, ferns and fern-allies, and flowering plants. It is intended as a general reference and guide for easy identification or naming of Philippine plant life, which is one of the most diverse and richest in the world.

Makati City: Bookmark, 2001

A Field Guide to the Whales and Dolphins in the Philippines

Jose Ma. Lorenzo Tan

“A well-made, exhaustively researched, and well-documented book with a conscience. Author Lory Tan shows us the beauty of these animals and what is happening to them now. A scaled recognition chart in full color is an added treat for kids and conscientious adults. The quality of this book is as impressive as its purpose is urgent.”—Sunday Inquirer

Makati City: Bookmark, 1995

A Life Shaped by Music: Andrea Ofilada Veneracion and the Philippine Madrigal Singers

Marjorie Evasco

A Life Shaped by Music is a story of National Artist for Music Andrea O. Veneracion and her lifework as founder and choirmaster of the Philippine Madrigal Singers. Poet Marjorie Evasco weaves the multi-colored strands of more than 37 years of the story, clarifying for those who admire Prof. Veneracion and the Philippine Madrigal Singers the intrinsic spirit, the magical rapport, the discipline, and the passion that animate every performance of the choir.

Makati City: Bookmark, 2001

A Makeshift Sun: Stories and Poems

Gemino H. Abad

Drawing from Abad’s introduction, one could regard the stories as a quest of memory, and the poems a probe of feeling, which both seek to define our humanity as Filipino. Whether the subject in story or poem is love or family, a natural function or even an idea, what is crucial for the definition is the integrity of the fictional persona’s response. But the form that integrity takes is always, for both persona and reader, a work of imagination.

Quezon City: University of the Phillipines Press, 2001

A Maranao Dictionary


Edited by Howard P. McKaughan, Batua Al-Macaraya

Aside from the introduction and a bibliography, this book contains two major chapters: a Maranao Dictionary and a Maranao–English Dictionary.

Manila: De La Salle University Press, 1996

A Nation for Our Children: Human Rights, Nationalism, Sovereignty

Jose Diokno
Edited by Santos Manalang Pricila

“This invaluable collection of Jose W. Diokno’s speeches and articles will serve as a monument to his unceasing vigilant pursuit and commitment to securing and protecting the quality of life of the Filipino human person in a just and humane society. His presentations addressed to his three major concerns—respect for human rights, nationalism, and Philippine sovereignty—reflect a contagious passion shared objectively through the use of substantive facts from the causes of our past and present political and economic circumstances.”—Lourdes R. Quisumbing, former secretary of Education, Culture, and Sports

Quezon City: Claretian Publications and The Jose W. Diokno Foundation, 1987

A Native Clearing: Filipino Poetry and Verse from English since the ’50s to the Present from Edith L. Tiempo and Cirilo F. Bautista


Edited by Gemino H. Abad

A Native Clearing is the sequel to Man of Earth (1989). It covers Filipino poetry wrought from English since the 1950s to the present. Because there are many more poets over that period, Prof. Abad decided to include only those who were born between 1919 and 1941, i.e., those who, from Edith L. Tiempo to Cirilo F. Bautista, worked and remolded English to the Filipino sense of his own reality. A few older poets from Man of Earth provide continuity in the poetic tradition.

Quezon City: University of the Phillipines Press, 1993