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Women, Power, and the Kinship Politics: Female Power in Post-war Philippines
By Mina Roces
Anvil Publishing, 2000
Php295.00
$8.92

Explore the relationship of gender and power in post-war Philippines. Go into the perspective of local concepts of power embedded in the predominant political culture, here characterized as traditional kinship politics. Women emerge not only as active political agents, but also as extremely powerful practitioners of kinship politics.

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Online Marketing Handbook
By Daniel S. Janal
Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995,
370 pp.

Be guided through the essentials of online marketing — from vital statistics on various online services to promotional devises that garner the best response rates. By learning how to take advantage of online technology, you can reduce costs, respond quickly to market conditions and provide the convenience that your customers want.

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Leo@fergusrules.com by By Arne Tangherlini Anvil, 1998 Php175.00 $5.29 In this tasty literary minestrone spanning Dante to cyberspace, a memorable 14-year-old heroine plunges into a world of fantasy and high-speed action sprinkled with brooding reflections on the pains of crossing the bridge between childhood and adolescence. This book will change the way we look at teenage people and their favorite pastimes: the Internet and videogames.

Arne Tangherlini
Author of the Month

Arne Tangherlini (1961-1998) was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and lived in Italy and Denmark before returning to the United States with his family in 1968. He earned degrees from Harvard University (magna cum laude) and the Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University. His works have appeared in The Baltimore Sun, The Evening Sun, Harvard Magazine and Exquisite Corpse.

Mr. Tangherlini moved to the Philippines in 1992 with his wife Gina Apostol and their daughter Nastashia. In Manila, he taught at the International School and contributed a soccer column to The Evening Paper. In 1992 he returned to the States, where he finished the novel, Leo@fergusrules.com and worked on a second one: Great Italian Heroes of the American Civil War.