Celebrating More: The St. Thomas More Lecture Series 1968–2019
About the book: This volume publication revisits and transcends the traditional renditions of St. Thomas More’s life and career and focuses on the underside of this lecture series where innovative insights emerge given the richness of the lectures’ individual contexts.
The new and meaningful ideas inspired by this lecture series bridge gaps between the cultures and times of St. Thomas More and contemporary Philippine society. A focus on More’s ideas by the individual lecturers on education, religion, politics and governance, business, the environment, and national development, international relations, and the arts and the evolution of national culture affirms that despite diversity and difference between cultures cutting across time and/or cultures evolving in history, a shared humanity and the assertion of Christian values prevail.
Year: 2025
Category: Social Science
Language: English
Page count: 264
Word count: 69,721
Dimensions: 15 x 23 cm
ISBN: 978-971-506-912-0
Keywords: Thomas More, Utopia, UST Faculty of Arts and Letters, Lecture Series
Retail price: ₱600.00
Vilma Santos, Icon: Essays on Cinema, Culture, & Society
About the book: With a career spanning six decades across film, television, and other media, Vilma Santos has built an unparalleled legacy of award-winning performances. This book pays tribute to her remarkable contributions to Philippine cinema and beyond. Santos’s films have consistently achieved both commercial success and critical acclaim. In her more daring roles, she has delivered bold, original, and often controversial performances—works that are not only entertaining but deeply thought-provoking.
Vilma Santos, Icon: Essays on Cinema, Culture, & Society offers a scholarly yet accessible exploration of her extensive body of work, focusing primarily on her achievements in cinema while also acknowledging her vital contributions to television and public service. The essays in this volume analyze her most significant performances, highlighting their cultural and social relevance.
Year: 2025
Category: Film Criticism
Language: English, Filipino
Page count: 278
Word count: 92,319
Dimensions: 15 x 23 cm
ISBN: 978-971-506-944-1 (SB); 978-971-506-945-8 (HB)
Keywords: Recto, Rosa Vilma T. Santos, Actors and actresses–Philippines, Motion pictures
Retail Price: ₱850.00 (SB); ₱2,200.00 (HB)
The Trilogy of Saint Lazarus
About the book: Venerated for its virtuosity and verve, Cirilo F. Bautista’s landmark The Trilogy of Saint Lazarus towers as the single most important achievement in twentieth-century Philippine anglophone poetry. Bringing together his epics Archipelago, Telex Moon and Sunlight on Broken Stones, this peerless and demanding masterwork showcases the late literary titan at his best: musical in movement, cerebral in diction, mythological in expanse, and muscular in his lyricism. These sweeping epics catapult from Manila to the metaphysical, and sail across history from Magellan to Martial Law. Illuminated by a critical introduction by Ronald Baytan, may this new edition invite the next generation of readers into Bautista’s dazzling imagination and language, towards our nation’s “Bright sign, bright age.”
Year: 2025
Category: Poetry
Language: English
Page Count: 1,323
Word Count: 93,996
Dimensions: 15 x 23 cm
ISBN: 978-971-506-943-4 (SB); 978-971-506-942-7 (HB)
Keywords: Philippine poetry (English), Epic poetry
Retail Price: TBA
