Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far
and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

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Editor: Aileen S.P. Baviera
Price: PhP 150 | Availability: Out of print
Year of Publication: 2008
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The "present collection of essays looks beyond the ASEAN security community that Amitav Acharya, Jurgen Haacke, and Rizal Sukma among others problematize to explore the possibility that a broader East Asian security community might also come into being in the future."

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Editor: Michiyo Yoneno-Reyes
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Year of Publication: 2013
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This book contains articles on Japanese and Korean pop culture, offering interdisciplinary analyses of manga, films, TV dramas, and music and examining how these cultural forms are consumed in a Philippine context.

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Editor: Armando Malay, Jr.
Price: PhP 150 • Availability: In stock
Year of Publication: 2001
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".....in the waning years of the 20th century, that convergence of vivid psychological and historical moments were seemingly constitutive of the spirit, if not the substance of a radically difference social order in most human communities the world over."

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Author: Joel Rocamora
Price: PhP 150 • Availability: In stock
Year of Publication: 1975
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"...any serious study of the Guided Democracy period must take into account the role, not only of the Partai Komunis Indonesia (PKI), but also of the other parties, in creating the conditions....which led to the calamitous events of late 1965 and early 1966." 

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Editors: Artemio Palongpalong and Sylvano Mahiwo
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Year of Publication: 1999
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This book "consists of articles contributed by scholars who are well-known in their areas of specialization. The articles can be divided into two categories: those dealing with the Philippines, and those covering other Asian countries."