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The JeepneyShop is your AS/ISM Alumni Shopping site! Great
books, CDs and videos - all related to the Philippines! |
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| Noli Me Tangere is a classic read for those interested in South-East Asian or colonial history/literature. This is an improved english translation of Jose Rizal's famous work. | Rod O'Connor '82 recommends the novel Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn. Ironic, humorous observations of pinoy culture during the waning days of the Marcos regime. It was turned into a play in NYC. | Dusk is 5th novel in the acclaimed Rosales saga by F. Sional Jose which chronicles Filipino life in the last century. Covers colonialism, poverty, Christianity in Asia, and the Spanish American war. | Ghosts of Manila is a work of docufiction by brit James Hamilton-Patterson. A haunting, violent tale of anarchy and depravity in Manila | The Tesseract is a three-part crime-story vividly set in muggy, scary Manila. Alex Garland (who wrote "The Beach") is a master of the youth paranoid thriller. |
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O'Connor '82 recommends Biggest Elvis by P. F. Kluge as a Very
entertaining story about 3 Elvis impersonators that perform at a bar in
Olongapo on the eve of the US departure from Subic. |
Alex Kahl '81 loved Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, famous for his high-tech novel "Snow Crash." A whopping 1000 pages yet highly hip and readable. Zooms all over the world, and between two time periods--World War II and the present. Stephenson's depiction s of the Philippines (then and now) are near-perfect. |
Doreen Staight Wiley's historical novel FIRES of SURVIVAL has the best description of the Battle of Manila Liberation that I've read. Doreen' family home was on the front lines of the fight for days, and she brings those awful times -- as well as the way life was lived in Manila on the "outside" to life. |
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Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides is a detailed account of a daring WWII rescue mission to free the last survivors of the Bataan Death March. Story was turned into the movie "The Great Raid" which is out in August 2005. |
Rod O'Connor '82 recommends In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow because it is a very complete account of Philippine history after Magellan. | Whether you're going back to the Philippines or just homesick, the Insight Guide to the Philippines is a quality guide book. It has detailed facts, great photos, and tells you how to get the most out of your visit. |
We Band of Angels is a non-fiction narrative by Elizabeth M. Norman about 99 WWII nurses - from country-club atmosphere of prewar Manila to jungle hospitals and Bataan and Corregidor. And they all survived. | Norie de la Cruz '82 recommends Waltzing with a Dictator, a fascinating read by NYT correspondent Raymond Bonner on the complex 20-year U.S. relationship with the Marcos regime. |
| Not a book but equally fun to read, the Philippines Country Map by Periplus makes an excellent map to use when travelling in the islands. Lots of detailed infos on quality paper! |
iJET Weekly Travel Intelligence Report - Philippines covers all potential travel concerns and is updated weekly. This "Travel Intelligence" is current, independent, and unbiased and comes to you as a downloadable PDF file. Covers these categories: Entry/Exit, Health, Security, Transportation, Communications / Technology, Financial, Language, Environment, Culture and Legal. |
Adobo, lumpia, sinigang, coconut and ube recipes, it's all in the Cookbook Filipino Cuisine: Recipes from the Islands. In fact all the regional and cultural styles of cooking are present, including Asian, Spanish, Muslim, Portuguese, Mexican. | Filipino Children's Favorite Stories is a compilation of 13 short folktales, many of them classics of the Filipino culture. The themes are universal in nature: greed and laziness and their consequences, nature's ways, family love and loyalty, and humorous trickster tales. |
Jens Peters' Philippine Travel Guide is considered the best all around guide to the Philippines. Be sure to pack it if you're heading back. Or just get the latest edition and browse it for some fun armchair travels. |
| BEYOND COURAGE, One Regiment Against Japan, 1941-1945 is a wrenching look by author Dorothy Cave at the small band of New Mexico National Guardsmen of the 200th Coast Artillery Regiment, sent to the Philippines just before WWII and captured there at the fall of Bataan. | Suzanne Veaudry '82 recommends Third Culture Kids, The Experience of Growing Up Among Worlds by David Pollock and Ruth Van Reken. People like AS and IS alums are called
Adult Third
Culture Kids or The book examines why we are what we are and what traits we tend to have. |
Gordon Lester '63 recommends Escape From Manila: From Nazi Tyranny To Japanese Terror. In the 1930s more than a thousand European Jews sought refuge in Manila. Frank Ephraim, who fled to Manila with his parents, mixes history and first-person stories to describe the difficult journey to Manila, the lives they built there upon their arrival, and the events surrounding the Japanese invasion. |
The Great Raid on Cabanatuan : Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor by William Breuer's is a military history story combining oral history with dramatic narrative. The climax is the successful 1945 commando raid that rescued the last American POWs in the Philippines from the Japanese. Also deals with the fall of the Philippines, the atrocious treatment of American and Filipino POWs, the heroic and frequently dangerous work of both Americans and Filipinos in the resistance, and the role of MacArthur. Made into a movie called The Great Raid out in 2005. |
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