Academic Book Fair 2017 at UP Diliman

First ACADEMIC BOOK FAIR for 2017 to be held at the Univeristy of the Philippines

The first major book fair of the year will be held on March 1-3 at the UP Bahay ng Alumni.  Organized by the Academic Booksellers Association of the Philippines (ABAP), the ACADEMIC BOOK FAIR is titled ENHANCING ACADEMIC ESSENTIALS THROUGH PRINT AND TECHNOLOGY. No less than the Chairman of the Commission of Higher Education (CHED) Patricia Licuanan will be the guest speaker during the opening program.

The exhibition highlights the latest titles for school and institutional libraries foremost among which are titles that are needed for the new GENERAL EDUCATION CURRICULUM for Colleges and Universities. The new GE curriculum is meant to prepare students for  workplaces anywhere in the world and for jobs that have yet to be invented.  CHED has emphasized that learning resources , both printed and digital, are a vital tool in the new curriculum and HEIs need to be adequately stocked with these materials. 

Responding to the CHED challenge, the ABAP Academic Book Fair exhibitors also assist professors and librarians in accessing academic journals and highly specialized publications from around the world.  Among the exhibitors are Philippine publishers  C&E Publishing, the UP Press, Ateneo de Manila University Press and Rex Publishing, foreign publisher Cengage Learning Asia, and booksellers CD Books International, F&J de Jesus, Golden books Services, IBC Book Consolidators, Megatexts Philippines, Goodwill Bookstore and Forefront Book Inc.

UP PRESS MARKS 52ND ANNIVERSARY IN ACADEMIC BOOKFAIR

The venerable University of the Philippines press celebrates its 52^nd year at the 21^st Academic Book Fair to be held on March 1-3, 2017 at the UP Bahay ng Alumni. The fair is organized by the Academic Booksellers Association of the Philippines which provides quality references for libraries and schools.

For its anniversary, UP Press is releasing a number of important titles in the social sciences such as : Patrick F. Campos’s THE END OF NATIONAL CINEMA , which features a new scholarship on Philippine cinema that links classic celluloid cinema to the emergence of digital filmmaking in the 2000s, Musika ng Kasaysayan ng Pilipinas, a study of music in history, as history, by scholar Raul C.Navarro, a collection of new fiction in Filipino entitled WAGI SAWI edited by Dean of UP IMC Roland Tolentino and Prof Rommel Rodriguez, and DIVIDE BY TWO  by  professor of Mass Communications Luis Teodoro which studies the distinction between the dominant media (often mistakenly labeled the mainstream) and the alternative media. As an anniversary offer, the press will offer a 20% discount for purchases of their books during the fair.

The ABAP book fair also includes other Philippine publishers Ateneo de Manila University Press, C&E Publishing, EDCA Publishing and Rex Publishing and foreign publisher Cengage Learning Asia. Other ABAP member exhibitors are CD Books International, Claretian Communications Foundation, F&J de Jesus Inc., Golden Book Services,  Fastbooks Educational Supply, IBC Book Consolidators, Linar Educational Materials and Megatexts Philippines Inc, among others.

Books on history and martial law at the 21^st Academic Book Fair

The controversial bestseller THE CONJUGAL DICTATORSHIP OF FERDINAND AND IMELDA MARCOS by Primitivo Mijares is being re-issued with annotations by the Ateneo De Manila University press and will be highlighted at the 21^st Academic Book  Fair on March 1-3 at the UP Bahay ng Alumni in Diliman.  Forty years after its first publication, the book, in this revised and annotated edition, reminds Filipinos of their past that remains a present threat. 

This book reports on the imposition of martial law in 1972 and the schemes that built and held its infrastructure. Drawing data from his work as Marcos’s media adviser before his defection in 1975,  Mijares exposes the massive corruption and military abuses under the regime. Also available are other books on history and social sciences such as columnist Randy David's Understanding Philippine Society, Culture and Politics,  UP professor Athena Casambre's The Discipline of Political Science, Life in the Philippines by anthropologist Niels Mulder, among others.

The new Basic Education curriculum emphasizes the teaching of history as crucial to the development of a future generation of responsible, socially aware and law-abiding citizens.  Responding to the this challenge, the ABAP Academic Book Fair exhibitors  assist teachers and librarians in accessing the most current and relevant publications for the HUMSS (humanities and social sciences)  and STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) strands of the Senior High School curriculum.  Among the exhibitors are Philippine publishers  C&E Publishing, Ibon Foundation, the UP Press, Ateneo de Manila University Press and Rex Publishing, foreign publisher Cengage Learning Asia, and booksellers CD Books International, F&J de Jesus, Golden Books Services, IBC Book Consolidators, Megatexts Philippines, Goodwill Bookstore and Forefront Book Inc.