100 Best Philippines History Books of All Time

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Tools of Titans

Timothy Ferriss

5.0
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The latest groundbreaking book from Tim Ferriss, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek.

From the author:

“For the last two years, I’ve interviewed nearly two hundred world-class performers for my podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show. The guests range from super celebs (Jamie Foxx, Arnold Schwarzenegger, etc.) and athletes (icons of powerlifting, gymnastics, surfing, etc.) to l

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Tony Robbins

Life Coach

Tim is a brilliant thinker. The way he approaches mastery is inspiring in many ways. His latest book is no exception. What I loved about Tools of Titans is that it distills key tactics, routines and habits of the ultra-successful in actionable ways that anyone can take advantage of. Highly recommended. Every chapter is a valuable lesson. [source]

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James Altucher

Founder/StockPickr

It only came out recently. I had so many questions about it that I flew to California and interviewed him about it for my podcast.It’s the collection of all the knowledge and wisdom he gained from the 100s of people he interviewed.I leave it out on my floor and read a page or two whenever I pass it.It’s already filled with 100s of my notes (see below). It’s maybe the one physical book I keep around. The rest, including my own books, I keep on my Kindle. [source]

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History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos

Luis H. Francia

4.7
From ancient Malay settlements to Spanish colonization, the American occupation and beyond, A History of the Philippines recasts various Philippine narratives with an eye for the layers of colonial and post-colonial history that have created this diverse and fascinating population. A History of the Philippines begins with the pre-Westernized Philippines in the 16th century and continues through th
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The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

Michael A. Singer

4.7
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Who are you? When you start to explore this question, you find out how elusive it really is. Are you a physical body? A collection of experiences and memories? A partner in a relationship? Each time you consider these aspects of yourself, you realize that there is much more to you than any of these can define.

In The Untethered Soul—now a New York Times bestseller—spiritual teacher Michael Singer
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Deepak Chopra

Founder/The Chopra Foundation

In the book The Untethered Soul, Michael A. Singer takes you step-by-step through the process of Gyana, the yoga of the Intellect, to the Source. Moreover, he does it with elegant simplicity. Read this book carefully, and you will get more than a glimpse of eternity. [source]

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James Altucher

Founder/StockPickr

Michael moved to an empty patch of forest, set up his trailer, and started to meditate in the early 70s. He surrendered to whatever happened in his life. Well...what ended up happening is that he created a multi-billion dollar company. His book is about the spiritual beauty of surrender. And how that can go hand in hand with financial success. I was so astonished by the book that I contacted him and flew down to Florida and stayed several days in his “compound” and interviewed him about his success. I re-read the book at least once every few months. [source]

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Ray Kurzweil

Investor & Author

East is East and West is West, but Michael A. Singer bridges these two great traditions in a radiant treatise on how to succeed in life from our spiritual quest to our everyday tribulations. Freud said that life was composed of love and work. With great eloquence, wit, and compelling logic, Singer’s brilliant book completes this thought by showing them to be two poles of the same selfless devotion. [source]

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Tao Te Ching: By Lao Tzu - Illustrated

Lao Tse

4.6
A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket Library edition.
Written more than two thousand years ago, the Tao Teh Ching, or -The Classic of the Way and Its Virtue, - is one of the true classics of the world of spiritual literature. Traditionally attributed to the legendary -Old Master, - Lao Tzu, the Tao Teh Ching teaches that the qualities o
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Jack Dorsey

Co-Founder/Twitter

Q: What are the books that had a major influence on you? Or simply the ones you like the most. : Tao te Ching, score takes care of itself, between the world and me, the four agreements, the old man and the sea...I love reading! [source]

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Jack Ma

Founder/Alibaba

According to a Yibada interview with Chen Wei, who wrote Ma’s 2014 authorized biography, the Alibaba founder and executive chairman always carries the Tao Te Ching, the foundational text of Taoist philosophy, religion and ethics composed by Lao Tzu in the sixth century B.C. [source]

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The Secret (The Secret, #1)

Rhonda Byrne

4.6
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The Secret’s 10th Anniversary Edition includes a new foreword by Rhonda Byrne, and 10 of the most life-changing insights she’s had over the last 10 years of practicing and living The Secret every day. The 10 insights alone will accelerate your understanding and mastery of the law of attraction.
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Ntwana Kasi.

@Sibongubuhle_N Don't you have pdf of it i love this book [source]

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Woman In Purpose

@Anele_Nks Best book ever! [source]

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Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila

James M. Scott

4.6
Before World War II, Manila was a slice of America in Asia, populated with elegant neoclassical buildings, spacious parks, and home to thousands of U.S. servicemen and business executives who enjoyed the relaxed pace of the tropics. The outbreak of the war, however, brought an end to the good life. General Douglas MacArthur, hoping to protect the Pearl of the Orient, declared the Philippine capita
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In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines

Stanley Karnow

4.5
"A brilliant, coherent social and political overview spanning three turbulent centuries."--San Francisco Chronicle

Stanley Karnow won the Pulitzer Prize for this account of America's imperial experience in the Philippines. In a swiftly paced, brilliantly vivid narrative, Karnow focuses on the relationship that has existed between the two nations since the United States acquired the country from Spa
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Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission

Hampton Sides

4.5
On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a hellish camp, among them the last survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March. A recent prison massacre by Japanese soldiers elsewhere in the Philippines made the stakes impossibly high and left little time to plan the compl
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Cryptonomicon

Neal Stephenson

4.5
With this extraordinary first volume in an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century.

In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse—mathematical genius and young Captain in the U.S. Navy—is assigned to detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a h
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Marc Andreessen

Co-Founder/Andreessen Horowitz

The Sovereign Individual—written 20 years ago, this is the most thought provoking book on the unfolding nature of the 21st Century that I’ve yet read. It’s packed with ideas on every page, many that are now fast becoming conventional wisdom, and many that are still heretical. Two related books to read are The Twilight of Sovereignty and Cryptonomicon. [source]

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Risto Siilasmaa

CEO/Nokia

The one book on Siilasmaa's list is this fantasy offering from Neal Stephenson. The novel relates two parallel stories, one about an elite group of code-breakers in World War II, and another set in the present day, about two grandchildren of members of the group trying to track down a previously unknown – and rumored to be unbreakable – Nazi code. The book's subject matter resonates with current issues surrounding data liberty, computer surveillance and cyber security. [source]

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Marko Rakar

This is a novel about a new world order where information is the currency, a virtual currency in the world. [source]

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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

Daniel Immerwahr

4.3
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire

We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories--the islands, atolls, and archipelagos--this country has governed and inhabited?

In How to Hi
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Asad Abukhalil

For those who want to understand the historical agony of Puerto Rico and the account of US colonial savagery there, read the brilliant book by Daniel Immerwahr, “How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States”. [source]

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Mike Gravel

@dimmerwahr It's a great book! [source]

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Barangay: Sixteenth-Century Phiippine Culture and Society

William Henry Scott

4.3

This book presents a sixteenth-century Philippine ethnography based on contemporaneous sources. It does not attempt to reconstruct that society by consideration of present Philippine societies, or of features believed to be common to all Austronesian peoples. Nor does it seek similarities with neighboring cultures in Southeast Asia, though the raw data presented should be of use to scholars who mi

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How Asia Works

Joe Studwell

4.3
“Pithy, well-written and intellectually vigorous . . . Studwell’s thesis is bold, his arguments persuasive, and his style pugnacious. It adds up to a highly readable and important book.” —Financial Times

In the 1980s and 1990s many in the West came to believe in the myth of an East-Asian economic miracle, with countries seen as not just development prodigies but as a unified bloc, culturally and ec
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History of the Filipino People

Teodoro A. Agoncillo

4.3
Comprehensive overview of Philippine History including Pre-Spanish life and culture, Spanish rule, the Filipino -American War, American rule, and the campaign for Independence, among other subjects.
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Little Fires Everywhere

Celeste Ng

4.3
In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned – from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules.

Enter Mia Warren – an enigmatic artist and single mother – who arrives in this id
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Manila, My Manila

Nick Joaquin

4.3
A 'Pop' History for Manilans

In early 1988, then Mayor Mel Lopez invited Nick Joaquin to write a popular history of Manila that young Manilans would enjoy. The city's poet laureate--whose entire body of work sings of Manila as Homer sang of Troy and Virgil of Rome--complied with a will. The first
edition of Manila, My Manila (1990) was distributed exclusively to the city's schools. This hardcover gi
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Dee Brown

4.3
Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling history The New York Times called "Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking...Impossible to put down."

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. A national b
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The Philippines: A Past Revisited

Renato Constantino, Letizia R. Constantino

4.3
This book is Constantino's attempt at a major breakthrough in Philippine historiography: he looks at the oppression of the Filipino masses from earliest time to 1941 and the struggle of men like himself to crack through the stereotypes hitherto propagated by Spaniards and Americans about the Filipinos.
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The One-Straw Revolution

Masanobu Fukuoka

4.2
Fukuoka demonstrates how the way we look at farming influences the way we look at health, the school, nature, nutrition, spiritual health and life itself. He joins the healing of the land to the process of purifying the human spirit and proposes a way of life and a way of farming in which such healing can take place.
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Brown Skin, White Minds: Filipino -/ American Postcolonial Psychology

E. J. R. David

4.2
Filipino Americans have a long and rich history with and within the United States, and they are currently the second largest Asian group in the country. However, very little is known about how their historical and contemporary relationship with America may shape their psychological experiences. The most insidious psychological consequence of their historical and contemporary experiences is colonia
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We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese

Elizabeth M. Norman

4.2
Hailed by "The New York Times Book Review" as a "grippingly told" story of "power and relevance," here is the true, untold account of the first American women to prove their mettle under combat conditions. Later, during three years of brutal captivity at the hands of the Japanese, they also demonstrated their ability to survive. Filled with the thoughts and impressions of the women who lived it, "
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Spirit Quest Chronicles - Book 2

Terry Goodkind

4.2
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Enemy of the State (Mitch Rapp, #16)

Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills

4.2
Mitch Rapp returns in the #1 New York Times bestselling series in this timely thriller as a Saudi prince is discovered using his fortunes to fund ISIS, re-opening secrets about the Saudi government's involvement in 9/11--secrets which the United States tried to bury.
After 9/11, the United States made one of the most secretive and dangerous deals in its history. The evidence against the powerful
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Twenty-Two on Peleliu: Four Pacific Campaigns with the Corps: The Memoirs of an Old Breed Marine

George Peto

4.2
On September 15, 1944, U.S. Marines landed on a small island in the Central Pacific called Peleliu, as a prelude to the liberation of the Philippines. Among the first wave of Marines that hit the beach that day was 22-year-old George Peto.

Growing up in on a farm in Ohio, George had always preferred exploring to being indoors. This made school a challenge, but his hunting, fishing and trapping ski
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The NASA Archives: 60 Years in Space

Piers Bizony

4.2
60 Years in Space with NASA
Journey through the U.S. space program’s fascinating pictorial history

On October 1, 1958, the world’s first civilian space agency opened for business as an emergency response to the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik a year earlier. Within a decade, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, universally known as NASA, had evolved from modest research teams experime
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Looking Back

Lois Lowry

4.2
Hindsight is the lowest form of intelligence–except for historians. In this handy collection of Ambeth Ocampo’s “Looking Back” column pieces, the popular historian digs deep and looks back carefully at events, places and important people who make up the country’s history.
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In the Presence of My Enemies

Gracia Burnham, Dean Merrill

4.2
Soon after September 11, the news media stepped up its coverage of the plight of Martin and Gracia Burnham, the missionary couple captured and held hostage in the Philippine jungle by terrorists with ties to Osama Bin Laden. After a year of captivity, and a violent rescue that resulted in Martin's death, the world watched Gracia Burnham return home in June 2002 with a bullet wound in the leg and a
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El Filibusterismo

Jose Rizal, Soledad Lacson-Locsin

4.2
El Filibusterismo (The Subversive) is the second novel by Jose Rizal (1861-1896), national hero of the Philippines. Like its predecessor, the better-known Noli Me Tangere, the Fili was written in Castilian while Rizal was traveling and studying in Europe. It was published in Ghent in 1891 and later translated into English, German, French, Japanese, Tagalog, Ilonggo, and other languages. A national
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Hogwarts Library)

J. K. Rowling

4.2
An approved textbook at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry since publication, Newt Scamander's masterpiece has entertained wizarding families through the generations. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an indispensable introduction to the magical beasts of the Wizarding World. Scamander's years of travel and research have created a tome of unparalleled importance. Some of the beast
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Manila Days: Growing Up in the Postcolony

Kerry Poethig

4.2

Kerry Poethig didn’t ask to come, but her Presbyterian parents did—so she grew up in Manila: teeming, cheerful, and grimy, loving it with an alab ng puso, an impassioned heart. Manila Days is a hybrid memoir of a missionary child coming of age at the edge of American empire. The daughter of labor-focused “fraternal workers” with the United Church of Christ in the Philippines, Poethig weaves a Tagl

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Saipan: The Battle That Doomed Japan in World War II

James H. Hallas

4.2
The story of the Battle of Saipan has it all. Marines at war: on Pacific beaches, in hellish volcanic landscapes in places like Purple Heart Ridge, Death Valley, and Hell's Pocket, under a commander known as "Howlin' Mad." Naval combat: carriers battling carriers from afar, fighters downing Japanese aircraft, submarines sinking carriers. Marine-army rivalry. Fanatical Japanese defense and resistan
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Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China

Ed Young

4.2
"Not for the faint-hearted, Lon Po Po (Grandmother Wolf), is a tale of a menacing danger and courage....(Young's) command of page composition and his sensitive use of color give the book a visual force that matches the strength of the story and stands as one of the illustrator's best efforts." --Booklist"Absolutely splendid." -- Kirkuse Reviews. "An extraordinary and powerful book." -- Publisher's
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Intramuros of Memories

Esperanza B Laya, Jaime C & Gatbonton

4.2
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Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I: July 1937-May 1942

Richard B. Frank

4.2
In 1937, the swath of the globe east from India to the Pacific Ocean enclosed half the world’s population, all save a fraction enduring under some form of colonialism. Japan’s onslaught into China that year unleashed a tidal wave of events that fundamentally transformed this region and killed about twenty-five million people. From just two nation states with real sovereignty, Thailand and Japan, a
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

Laurence Bergreen

4.2
The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage

“Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner.”— New York Times Book Review

Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey fil
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Errante Golondrina: The Life and Times of Josephine Bracken

Macario Ofilada

4.2
This book is about Josephine Bracken's legitimate origin and her marriage to Jose Rizal. Authored by her great grandson, it is the first biography to come to her defense amidst allegations by historians that she was illegitimate and not lawfully wedded to the national hero. It presents Ms. Bracken's life before, during and after her brief but intense romance with Rizal who called her a wandering s
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Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath

Michael Norman

4.2
Tears in the Darkness is an altogether new look at World War II that exposes the myths of war and shows the extent of suffering and loss on both sides.

For the first four months of 1942, U.S., Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought what was America's first major land battle of World War II, the battle for the tiny Philippine peninsula of Bataan. It ended with the surrender of 76,000 Filipinos and
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Today's Revolution: Democracy

Ferdinand E Marcos

4.2
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Hong Kong Junta

S. V Epistola

4.1
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The Letters of Apolinario Mabini

Apolinario Mabini

4.1
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Selyo: Philippine History in Postage Stamps

Reynaldo G Alejandro

4.1
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Collection Building: Filipiniana

Isagani R. Medina

4.1
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Philippine Society and Revolution

Amado Guerrero

4.1

"Philippine Society and Revolution" is Jose Maria Sison's legendary 1971 work, under his pen name, Amado Guerrero. The book takes a look at the class structure and history of the Phillipines from a Marxist point of view, describes the problems faced by the people and providesa blue print for two part revolutionary action for liberation.

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Escape from Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War

John D. Lukacs

4.1
One of the greatest Pacific war stories never told.

On April 4, 1943, ten American prisoners of war and two Filipino convicts--nicknamed the "Davao Dozen"--executed a daring escape from one of Japan's most notorious prison camps. Called the "greatest story of the war in the Pacific" by the War Department in 1944, the full account has never been told--until now. A product of years of in-depth rese
When Angels Fall: From Toccoa to Tokyo: The 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment in World War II MacArthur's Secret Weapon & Heroes of Los Ba�os book cover44

When Angels Fall: From Toccoa to Tokyo: The 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment in World War II MacArthur's Secret Weapon & Heroes of Los Ba�os

Jeremy C. Holm

4.1
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Philippines

Joanne Mattern and Kristen Susienka

4.1
"The Philippines, a nation composed of thousands of islands, has a vibrant past. Readers learn what the country is like today, from its history to its festival traditions, culinary history, lifestyle, government, and economy."--Publisher's description.
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Rizal Without the Overcoat

Ambeth R. Ocampo

4.1
This book is a collection of essays from Ambeth R. Ocampo’s newspaper column “Looking Back” that began in the Philippine Daily Globe and later moved to the Philippine Daily Inquirer. He presents a readable and painless introduction to Jose Rizal and offers fascinating insights, lively anecdotes, academic intrigue, and little-known facts about the hero as human. Investigating Rizal’s own writings -
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The Last Free Filipinos: Inside the World of the Igorot Tribes

Caleb Crosby

4.1

The Last Free Filipinos: Inside the World of the Igorot TribesBy Caleb P. CrosbyThey resisted Spanish swords. They rejected American assimilation. They kept their gods, their land, and their dignity. This is their story.In the towering highlands of the Philippines lives a people who defied conquest for centuries. The Igorots—warriors, rice terrace engineers, headhunters, peacekeepers—remained free

Greek Tragedies 1: Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound; Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Antigone; Euripides: Hippolytus book cover48

Greek Tragedies 1: Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound; Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Antigone; Euripides: Hippolytus

Mark Griffith

4.1
Greek Tragedies, Volume I contains Aeschylus’s “Agamemnon,” translated by Richmond Lattimore; Aeschylus’s “Prometheus Bound,” translated by David Grene; Sophocles’s “Oedipus the King,” translated by David Grene; Sophocles’s “Antigone,” translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; and Euripides’s “Hippolytus,” translated by David Grene.

Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous proj
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MEGA RED: A Guide Book Of United States Coins (5th Edition)

Q. David Bowers

4.1
Billed as the "biggest, most useful Red Book ever," the Deluxe Edition measures 7 x 10 inches and has 1,504 pages. The larger size and increased page count combined make the Deluxe Edition five times bigger than the regular-edition Red Book. It prices 8,018 items in up to 12 grades each, with 50,205 individual values and 16,667 auction records covering circulated, Mint State, and Proof coinage. Th
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Interpreting Rizal

Erin E. Benay and Lisa M. Rafanelli

4.1
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The Forgotten Children of Maui: Filipino Myths, Tattoos, and Rituals of a Demigod

Lane Wilcken

4.1
When people hear of Maui, they mainly think of the island named after him in the Hawaiian archipelago. In Polynesia, Maui is best known as a superman, a demigod who performed incredible feats of strength like fishing up islands and capturing the sun. His timeless stories are still shared throughout the Pacific Islands as they have been for countless generations. Some islands claim him to be a god,
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Filipino Tattoos: Ancient to Modern

Lane Wilcken

4.1
Tattooing is a very old and spiritually respected art form that has existed in many different cultures around the world. After many centuries of not being practiced in Europe, tattooing was re-introduced to the Western world through the inhabitants of the Pacific Ocean. Beginnning in the 16th century, European explorers came across many people who practiced tattooing as an integral part of their c
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Indestructible: One Man's Rescue Mission That Changed the Course of WWII

John R Bruning

4.1
In this remarkable WWII story by New York Times bestselling author John R. Bruning, a renegade American pilot fights against all odds to rescue his family--imprisoned by the Japanese--and revolutionizes modern warfare along the way.

From the knife fights and smuggling runs of his youth to his fiery days as a pioneering naval aviator, Paul Irving "Pappy" Gunn played by his own set of rules and alway
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

Barbara W. Tuchman

4.1
During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged few enjoyed Olympian luxury as the underclass was “heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate.” In The Proud Tower, Barbara W. Tuchman brings the era to vivid life: the decline of the Edwardian aristocracy; the Anarchists of Europe and America; Germany and its self-d
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101 Stories on the Philippine Revolution

Ambeth R. Ocampo

4.1
These "101 stories" are by a historian who here makes palatable information on contexts, incidents and personalities which form the history of the Philippine Revolution of the 1890s. Light is shed on events surrounding the Declaration of Independence of June 1898 and the subsequent (violent) US Occupation and colonisation. Several stories focus on the role and personality of Emilio Aguinaldo, titu
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50 Years of Rolling Stone: The Music, Politics and People that Changed Our Culture

Rolling Stone

4.1
For the past fifty years, Rolling Stone has been a leading voice in journalism, cultural criticism, and—above all—music. This landmark book documents the magazine’s rise to prominence as the voice of rock and roll and a leading showcase for era-defining photography. From the 1960s to the present day, the book offers a decade-by-decade exploration of American music and history. Interviews with rock
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In the Highest Degree Tragic: The Sacrifice of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet in the East Indies during World War II

Donald M. Kehn Jr.

4.1
In the Highest Degree Tragic tells the heroic story of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet’s sacrifice defending the Dutch East Indies from the Japanese in the first three months of the Pacific War. Donald M. Kehn Jr.’s comprehensive narrative history of the operations involving multiple ships and thousands of men dramatically depicts the chaotic nature of these battles. His research has uncovered evidence of
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The Political and Constitutional Ideas of the Philippine Revolution

Cesar Adib Majul

4.1
The book concedes that the Revolution of 1896 was a national movement caused mainly by oppressive feudal conditions and the abuses of Spanish friars and officials. The organization responsible for the uprising was the secret nationalist society called Katipunan. In Cesar A. Majul’s words, “It was the tyranny of the government as experienced by the masses, and the realization on the part of a few F
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Pinay Guerrilleras: The Unsung Heroics of Filipina Resistance Fighters During the Pacific War

Stacey Anne Baterina Salinas, Diana Scala, et al

4.1
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The Philippine Army, 1935-1942

Ricardo Trota Jose

4.1
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Small Island

Andrea Levy

4.1
Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. Her husband, Gilbert Joseph, returns from the war expecting to be received as a hero, but finds his status as a black man in Britain to be second class. His white landlady, Queenie, raised as a farmer's daughter, befriends Gilbert, and later Hortense, with innocence and coura
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Philippine History And Government

Sonia M. Zaide

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Shadows in the Jungle: The Alamo Scouts Behind Japanese Lines in World War II

Larry Alexander

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From the New York Times bestselling coauthor of A Higher Call, an up-close-and-personal account of the Alamo Scouts in World War II.

Determined to retake the Philippines ever since his ignominious flight from the islands in 1942, General Douglas MacArthur needed a first-rate intelligence-gathering unit. Out of thousands, only 138 soldiers were chosen: the best, toughest, and most fit men the arm
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As Good As Dead: The True WWII Story of Eleven American POWs Who Escaped from Palawan Island

Stephen L. Moore

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The heroic story of eleven American POWs who defied certain death in World War II—As Good as Dead is an unforgettable account of the Palawan Massacre survivors and their daring escape.

In late 1944, the Allies invaded the Japanese-held Philippines, and soon the end of the Pacific War was within reach. But for the last 150 American prisoners of war still held on the island of Palawan, there would b
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Bataan Survivor: A POW’s Account of Japanese Captivity in World War II

David L. Hardee

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A forgotten account, written in the immediate aftermath of World War II, which vividly portrays the valor, sacrifice, suffering, and liberation of the defenders of Bataan and Corregidor through the eyes of one survivor.

The personal memoir of Colonel David L. Hardee, first drafted at sea from April-May 1945 following his liberation from Japanese captivity, is a thorough treatment of his time in th
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José Rizal: The Filipino Hero's Life Illustrated

Kate Clifford Larson

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"ONCE THERE WAS A HERO WHO DREAMT OF FREEDOM AND EQUALITY...'

Raised by a hardworking father and a well-educated mother, young Jose lived a happy childhood. He grew up in a large and wealthy family—with one brother and nine sisters keeping him company, while his mother taught him how to read and write.

During the Spanish colonial rule, many of the locals suffered from discrimination, but Jose knew n
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Prehispanic Source Materials For The Study Of Philippine History

William Henry Scott

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Siglo 20: A Century of Style and Design in the Philippines

Kenneth Bartlett

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Any vision of the future can claim relevance only if it is moored in the past. To pause and reflect upon the design developments that have shaped our mundane lives in the last century is a necessary step in claiming our design futures. Through a design and style retrospection, we appreciate the divers ways in which design practitioners and their products of creativity respond to the givens imposed
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History of the Philippine Islands, (from Their Discovery by Magellan in 1521 to the Beginning of the XVII Century; With Descriptions of Japan, China a

Antonio De Morga, E. H. Blair, et al.

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Antonio de Morga's History of the Philippines is one of the most important works ever written on the Spanish colonization of the Philippines in the sixteenth century and describes in fascinating detail the climate and peoples of the islands. The history also includes accounts of exploration in the Philippines by the English privateer Thomas Candish as well as those of Dutch explorers.
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People Power: The Greatest Democracy Ever Told The Philippine Revolution of 1986 (An Eyewitness to History)

Monina Allarey (editor) Mercado

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Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History

Catherine Ceniza Choy

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A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy (1941-1945)

Paul S. Dull

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For almost 20 years, more than 200 reels of microfilmed Japanese naval records remained in the custody of the U.S. Naval History Division, virtually untouched. This unique book draws on those sources and others to tell the story of the Pacific War from the viewpoint of the Japanese. Former Marine Corps officer and Asian scholar Paul Dull focuses on the major surface engagements of the war--Coral S
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Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

Patricia Evangelista

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A Thousand Little Deaths: Growing Up Under Martial Law in the Philippines

Vicky Pinpin-Feinstein

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On an otherwise normal morning at a private school for girls, a 15-year-old student is picked up by soldiers and sent to a military camp, becoming one of the thousands of political prisoners arrested under Ferdinand Marcos' repressive regime in the 1970s. A year earlier, Marcos had declared martial law and a military government effectively took over the Philippines. After her release, author Vicky
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The Light of Liberty: Documents and Studies on the Katipunan, 1892-1897

Jim Richardson

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"Most of the 73 Katipunan documents in this volume were seized by the Guardia Civil in Manila in 1896-1897 and locked away for decades in the Spanish military archives. Transcribed and published here for the first time are two versions of the Katipunan's founding statutes of 1892; more than twenty records of the Supreme Council; initiation rituals; draft contributions to KALAYAAN, the KKK newspape
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No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War

Hiroo Onoda

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In the spring of 1974, Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese Army made world headlines when he emerged from the Philippine jungle after a thirty-year ordeal. Hunted in turn by American troops, the Philippine police, hostile islanders, and successive Japanese search parties, Onoda had skillfully outmaneuvered all his pursuers, convinced that World War II was still being fought and that one
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A Question of Heroes

Nick Joaquin

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Through his critical essays on ten key figures in Philippine history, Nick Joaquin provides a fresh point of view on Philippine heroes and their role in the Philippine revolutionary tradition.
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Tower of Skulls: From the Marco Polo Bridge Incident to the Fall of Corregidor, July 1937-May 1942

Richard B. Frank

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In 1937, the swath of the globe east from India to the Pacific Ocean enclosed half the world’s population. Japan’s onslaught into China that year unleashed a tidal wave of events that fundamentally transformed this region and killed about twenty-five million people. This extraordinary World War II narrative vividly portrays the battles across this entire region and links those struggles on many le
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The Boys From The Barracks: The Philippine Military After Edsa

Criselda Yabes

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"The post-Ramos coup attempts did not have the same political magnitude and intensity as those which went on during the years of Cory Aquino in power in the 1980s. This is partly why putting the pieces together felt like writing a pos-mortem account. The old patterns were evident, starting from President Joseph Estrada's ouster in 2001 and up until the fiasco at the Manila Peninsula takeover in 20
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The Battle for Leyte Gulf: The Incredible Story of World War II's Largest Naval Battle

C. Vann Woodward

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Pulitzer-Prize-winner and bestselling author C. Vann Woodward recreates the gripping account of the battle for Leyte Gulf—the greatest naval battle of World War II and the largest engagement ever fought on the high seas. For the Japanese, it represented their supreme effort; they committed to action virtually every operational fighting ship on the lists of the Imperial Navy, including two powerful

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An Illustrated History of the Philippines

Ray Canoy

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Beginning with a definition of who the people of The Philippines are, this fully illustrated history then tracks back to describe the prehistory of the country through to 1500 AD. The next two chapters chart the colonial experiences under Spain (1500–1896), then the first republic and the subsequent defeat by the United States (1860–1910). Following this are chapters on the Japanese occupation and
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Salamat Po! Learning About Showing Respect In The Filipino Culture

Adriana Allen and Raquel Li

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Join Chloe, who is half-Filipino and living in New York, as she learns about different ways respect is shown in the Filipino culture.
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Colossal Deception: How Foreigners Control Our Telecoms Sector

Rigoberto D. Tiglao

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The book exposes one of the biggest deceptions ever foisted on the Philippine nation, the total domination of our telecommunications industry by foreigners and its deliberate concealment. This is a grave violation of the Philippine Constitution, a fact that was ignored by the Aquino administration when it chose to side with foreign interests instead of following a Supreme Court order to stop the f
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7000 Islands: Cherished Recipes and Stories from the Philippines

Yasmin Newman

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A beautiful, comprehensive, and evocative cookbook on a relatively undiscovered cuisine.

Despite the Philippines' location right in the middle of Southeast Asia, most people know very little about the country and even less about the cuisine. For Filipinos, food is more than a pleasurable pursuit; it is the cultural language. It can be seen through the prism of its unique and colorful history, with
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Kuwentong Bayan: Noong Panahon Ng Hapon: Everyday Life In A Time Of War

Thelma B. Kintanar, Clemen C. Aquino, Luisa T. Camagay, Patricia B. Arinto

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In English and Tagalog. The book provides true stories by individuals who lived through the atrocities of war in the Philippines. Japanese occupation, Pacific War, World War II memoirs. Very large/heavy book. With photos and maps.
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The Dark Colony Clasificado: The Grinning Niño of Barang

k 3 of 3: Kingsbridge

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In the oppressive midnight of Martial Law, a band of knights investigate a religious artifact in the festive town of Barang, Bulacan...

...Where, beneath the banderitas, an ancient evil awaits.
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Leyte Gulf: A New History of the World's Largest Sea Battle

Mark Stille

4.0

A fascinating re-examination of the battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval encounter in history and probably the most decisive naval battle of the entire Pacific War, and one that saw the Imperial Japanese Navy eliminated as an effective fighting force and forced to resort to suicide tactics.Leyte was a huge and complex action, actually consisting of four major battles, each of which are broken d

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Tadhana: The History of the Filipino People

Ferdinand E Marcos

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TADHANA The History of the Filipino People COMPLETE Vol 2 Set

Description : Complete Set of Tadhana Volume 2 books by Ferdinand Marcos, published in 1979. This Set Includes the following:

1. Volume 2: Formation of the National Community (1565-1896)
2. Volume 2 Part 1: Encounter (1565-1663)
3. Volume 2 Part 2: Reaction (1663-1765)
4. Volume 2 Part 3: Transition (1765-1815)

Contains lots of colorful illus
Shadow Commander: The Epic Story of Donald D. Blackburn—Guerrilla Leader and Special Forces Hero book cover89

Shadow Commander: The Epic Story of Donald D. Blackburn—Guerrilla Leader and Special Forces Hero

Mike Guardia

4.0

The true story of the US Army legend who organized "Blackburn's Headhunters" against Japan in WWII and went on to initiate Special Forces operations in Vietnam.The fires on Bataan burned on the evening of April 9, 1942—illuminating the white flags of surrender against the dark sky. Outnumbered and outgunned, remnants of the American-Philippine army surrendered to the forces of the Rising Sun. Yet

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Culture and History

Nick Joaquin

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A ground-breaking treatise by National Artist for Literature Nick Joaquin on how Philippine history and Filipino identity have been shaped by the tools of our native and adopted cultures. Learn about feminism and beaterios, and the evolution from bamboo houses to stone churches.
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Somewhere in the Middle: A journey to the Philippines in search of roots, belonging, and identity

Deborah Francisco Douglas

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Half Filipino but raised in an American household, Deborah Francisco Douglas had always longed to know more about her Filipino heritage. So when a thick government-issued envelope arrived at her door announcing her assignment to the Philippines as a Peace Corps Volunteer, she snatched the opportunity and set out on a journey of self-discovery, travel, and adventure.

Arriving in the mountain town o
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Goyo: Ang Batang Heneral

TBAStudios Studios

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Goyo: Ang Batang Heneral is a coming-of-age story about how a young, overconfident boy learns to accept his own mortality and, more importantly, his duties as a true soldier of the Republic.” – Jerrold Tarog, director of Goyo: Ang Batang Heneral
History lessons have ingrained in Filipinos the heroism of the boy general Gregorio del Pilar, famed for the Battle in Tirad Pass. But the ideals that spu
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Rock Solid: How the Philippines Won Its Maritime Case against China

Marites Danguilan Vitug

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Rock Solid is a landmark book detailing the Philippines' historic legal victory against China over the South China Sea.

Seasoned Filipino journalist Marites Vitug pored over transcripts and documents from arbitral hearings at The Hague, and interviewed key personalities involved in the maritime case.
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Lolas' House: Filipino Women Living with War

M. Evelina Galang

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During World War II more than one thousand Filipinas were kidnapped by the Imperial Japanese Army. Lolas’ House tells the stories of sixteen surviving Filipino “comfort women.”

M. Evelina Galang enters into the lives of the women at Lolas’ House, a community center in metro Manila. She accompanies them to the sites of their abduction and protests with them at the gates of the Japanese embassy. Eac
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Air Apaches: The True Story of the 345th Bomb Group and Its Low, Fast, and Deadly Missions in World War II

Jay A. Stout

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The American 345th Bomb Group--the Air Apaches--was legendary in the war against Japan. The first fully trained and fully equipped group sent to the South Pacific, the 345th racked up a devastating score against the enemy. Armed to the teeth with machine guns and fragmentation bombs, and flying their B-25s at impossibly low altitudes--often below fifty feet--the pilots and air crews strafed and bo
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Enrique El Negro

Henrique Salas Römer

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When the Portuguese explorer, Ferdinand Magellan "discovered" the Philippines for the Spanish crown in the 16th century, he was accompanied by a slave named Enrique, who could communicate with the inhabitants of the islands that Magellan visited. Little is known of this slave except that he existed. However, a local historian has come up with a still-controversial theory that the slave Enrique was
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The Spanish Seaborne Empire

J. H. Parry

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The Spanish empire in America was the first of the great seaborne empires of western Europe; it was for long the richest and the most formidable, the focus of envy, fear, and hatred. Its haphazard beginning dates from 1492; it was to last more than three hundred years before breaking up in the early nineteenth century in civil wars between rival generals and "liberators."

Available now for the firs
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Philippine History

Teodoro A. Agoncillo, Fe B. Mangahas

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Si Segunda, Noong Panahon ng mga Espanyol

Augie Rivera, Pepper Roxas

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Segunda doesn’t want to go to catechism classes. What she wants is to learn to read and count just like Felipe. Will Segunda get her wish?

Ayaw ni Segunda pumasok sa katekismo. Ang gusto niya’y matutong magbasa at magbilang tulad ni Felipe. Matutupad kaya ang nais ni Segunda?
The Philippine–American War: A Captivating Guide to the Philippine Insurrection That Started When the United States of America Claimed Possession of the Philippines after the Spanish–American War book cover100

The Philippine–American War: A Captivating Guide to the Philippine Insurrection That Started When the United States of America Claimed Possession of the Philippines after the Spanish–American War

Captivating History

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