Libreria Filipiniana

26/08/2026

11/08/2026

Typhoons, Climate, Society, and History in the Philippines
By James Francis Warren

This book offers an unprecedented and extensive view of the complex interplay of typhoons and Philippine society. Its sweeping coverage of the Philippine landscape that includes the earliest contact with the West, the development of the transPacific trade, incursions of the Catholic religion, integration into the Modern World system, and the extraordinary influences of centuries of typhoons has made for remarkable scholarship.

By placing typhoons and associated hazards at the center of his historical focus, James Francis Warren presents a bold and innovative interpretation of Philippine pasts and futures, whereby the distinctions between natural hazards and natural disasters disappear. He gives a unique and long-term perspective on Philippine environmental and economic-social history through the lens of a recurrent extreme weather event extending all the way to the present, laying down the critical challenges that confront us in a globally warmer and more unpredictable future.

A very important reference material for all those interested in multidisciplinary approaches to environmental sciences, social sciences, economic and sociopolitical history, disaster risk management, and sustainable development, Typhoons is an astonishing, panoramic, persuasive study of inestimable value.

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11/08/2026

Philippine Folk Literature Series
Edited by Damiana Domingo

These books are a pioneering work in Philippine folklore studies.

The first volume presents a bird’s-eye view of the whole range of Philippine folk literature and offers a sampling of this rich and varied branch of the Filipino cultural heritage.

The second volume focuses on myths, simply defined as sacred narratives explaining how the world and man came to be in their present form.

The third volume focuses on the legend, which may simply be defined as an account of an extraordinary happening believed to have actually occurred.

The fourth volume focuses on folktales, defined in this work as fictional folk narratives, which are not considered as dogma or history; they may or may not have happened and are not to be taken seriously.

The fifth volume concentrates on the riddle, which may be defined as a question stated so as to exercise one’s ingenuity in answering it or discovering its meaning.

The sixth volume focuses on the proverb—a terse didactic statement, handed down through generations, the wisdom of many and the wit of one. It ordinarily suggests a course of action or passes judgment on a situation.

The seventh volume is currently unavailable

The eighth volume twenty-three folk epics collected from some fourteen ethnolinguistic groups in the country.

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11/08/2026

Barangay: Sixteenth Century Philippine Culture And Society
By William Henry Scott

Winner, National Book Award for History
Winner, Gintong Aklat for Social Science

Now considered a classic in Philippine studies, Barangay presents a sixteenth-century ethnography and a picture of pre-Hispanic life woven from comprehensive analyses of early Philippine-language lexicons. It covers a survey of Indigenous cultures from north to south of the archipelago, including descriptions of the Visayan people, their physical appearance, food and farming practices, trades and commerce, religion, literature and entertainment, natural science, social organiza-tion, and warfare.

Published in 1994, Barangay won the National Book Award for History and the Gintong Aklat for Social Science.Now considered a classic in Philippine studies, Barangay presents a sixteenth-century ethnography and a picture of pre-Hispanic life woven from comprehensive analyses of early Philippine-language lexicons. It covers a survey of Indigenous cultures from north to south of the archipelago, including descriptions of the Visayan people, their physical appearance, food and farming practices, trades and commerce, religion, literature and entertainment, natural science, social organiza-tion, and warfare.

Originally Published 1994
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11/08/2026

Jose Rizal: National Hero Bundle
The First Filipino: A Biography of Jose Rizal
By Leon Ma. Guerrero

This is a comprehensive biography of the Philippine National Hero, Jose Rizal. It has been awarded the First Prize in the Rizal Biography Contest under the auspices of the Jose Rizal National Centennial
Commission in 1961.

First published 1961
Current Edition 2021
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Political and Historical Writings
Jose Rizal

Assembled in this volume, the seventh in the Rizal Centennial Edition, are Rizal’s articles, essays, and documents of an historical and political nature, in English translation, arranged in chronological order, as far as the dates of their production or publication can be ascertained, together with the facsimile of the extant manuscripts. Unfortunately, not all of the manuscripts have been found.

These writings deal with a variety of subjects concerning the Filipinos and the multitudinous problems - political, economic, social, and religious. Shining through all of them all is Rizal’s passionate love of his native land.

First Published 1963
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11/08/2026

History of the Bisayan People in the Philippine Islands by Francisco Ignacio Alcina S. J. Volumes 1 to 3
(Historia de ls Islas e Indios de Bisayas 1668)

Translated, Edited and Annotated by Fray Cantius J. Kobak OFM & Fray Lucio Gutiérrez OP

Father Francisco Ignacio Alcina, SJ, was an extremely intelligent, perceptive, knowledgeable person; a keen observer of human nature and an individual deeply sensitive to the wonders of nature — be it on land, in the sea or the sky. But most of all, deeply sensitive to and concerned with the feelings, aspira-tions, needs, hopes and yearnings of his ‘Beloved Bisayans’. He made heroic efforts to understand the heart, the mind, the wisdom of his people and treated them with great reverence and deep respect. He inquired, listened to and learned much of the pre-Hispanic Bisayan history, culture, practices and life-ways, which he penned and included in his Historia de las islas e indios de Bisayas...
1668.

This Bilingual Edition Published 2005
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11/08/2026

Unrequited Love
By Marites Dañguilan Vitug & Camille Elemia

Drawn on archival research and field interviews, the story begins with the roots of his affection for China and leads to the maritime features that are the major sources of tension between Manila and Beijing and the pushback by key institutions.

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11/08/2026

Clothing the Colony: Nineteenth Century Philippine Sartorial Culture, 1820-1896
By Stephanie Coo

Winner, National Book Awards 2022
Best Book on History

“This book is, to date, the most comprehensive and rigorously-researched study on the forms of dress worn by almost all types and classes of inhabitants of the Philippines under Spain from 1820 to 1896. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it systematically and perspicaciously shows the inextricable links between these attires and the rapidly changing economic, political, religious, and social conditions of the nineteenth century, which, among others, witnessed the opening of the islands to international trade, the consequent rise of a mestizo elite, and the formation of groups of Filipinos who would eventually assert their identity through the ideology of reform, and later, revolution at century’s end. Written in a lucid style and appropriately documented with prints and photographs of the period, this work is an indispensable source book for all artists who design for theater, film, television, and the fashion industry, as well as historians of all persuasions and Filipinophiles of all nations.”

—NICANOR G. TIONGSON, PhD, professor emeritus
University of the Philippines-Diliman

Published 2019
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11/08/2026

Noche Buena: 100 Stories Shared at the Philippine Holiday Table
By the FEU Culture Collective

The Philippines may wish to brand itself “Asia’s Christmas Capital.” Celebrating the nativity of Jesus Christ was introduced by missionaries who began arriving in 1565 to embed Roman Catholicism in Spain’s new colony. This book shares the joyful anticipation Filipinos around the world carry in their hearts for the season’s culinary climax: the feast of Noche Buena,
“the night that is good.”

- Felice Prudente-Sta. Maria

Published 2025
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05/08/2026

Noche Buena: 100 Stories Shared at the Philippine Holiday Table
By the FEU Culture Collective

The Philippines may wish to brand itself “Asia’s Christmas Capital.” Celebrating the nativity of Jesus Christ was introduced by missionaries who began arriving in 1565 to embed Roman Catholicism in Spain’s new colony. This book shares the joyful anticipation Filipinos around the world carry in their hearts for the season’s culinary climax: the feast of Noche Buena,
“the night that is good.”

- Felice Prudente-Sta. Maria

Published 2025
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