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Book Salamat PRRD

    Book Details:
  • Author : Various Contributors
  • Publisher : Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 6219663527
  • Pages : 428 pages

Download or read book Salamat PRRD written by Various Contributors and published by Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation. This book was released on with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SALAMAT PRRD is a testament to the Duterte legacy, written by those who worked closely with the President, and by many ordinary Filipinos who share how their lives were impacted by his Presidency. Created originally for the President as a gift after his exit from office, it now serves as a reminder—and an explanation—for present and future generations on why Rodrigo Duterte stepped down with the highest satisfaction and trust ratings in exit surveys, despite the extraordinary challenges he faced during his term.

Book A Duterte Reader

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nicole Curato
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2017-12-15
  • ISBN : 1501724746
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book A Duterte Reader written by Nicole Curato and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical analysis of one of the most media-savvy authoritarian rulers of our time, this collection of essays offers an overview of Duterte’s rise to power and actions of his early presidency. With contributions from leading experts on the society and history of the Phillipines, The Duterte Reader is necessary reading for anyone needing to contextualize and understand the history and social forces that have shaped contemporary Philippine politics.

Book Beyond Will   Power

    Book Details:
  • Author : Earl G. Parreño
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9786218161023
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Beyond Will Power written by Earl G. Parreño and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Rise of Duterte

Download or read book The Rise of Duterte written by Richard Javad Heydarian and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on the extensive literature on populism, democracy, and emerging markets as well as interviews with senior government officials, experts, and journalists in the Philippines and beyond, This book is the first to analyze the significance and implications of the rise of Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte within a rapidly-changing Asia Pacific region. As China's power in the Pacific grows rapidly, nations that have traditionally been US allies, such as the Phillipines, are experiencing political convulsions; Duterte's open willingness to realign towards China (at the expense of America) in exchange for infrastructure investment is one of the clearest indicators of what China's rise might look like for nations around the world. Timely, precise, accessible and fast-paced, this book will be of value to scholars, journalists, policy-makers, and China watchers.

Book Colossal Deception

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rigoberto Tiglao
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-01-19
  • ISBN : 9789719453536
  • Pages : 171 pages

Download or read book Colossal Deception written by Rigoberto Tiglao and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book exposes one of the biggest deceptions ever foisted on the Philippine nation, the total domination of our telecommunications industry by foreigners and its deliberate concealment. This is a grave violation of the Philippine Constitution, a fact that was ignored by the Aquino administration when it chose to side with foreign interests instead of following a Supreme Court order to stop the foreign control of a strategic public utility. While claiming to be majority-owned by Filipinos, the reality is that the biggest stockholder of Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co., which operates Smart Communications, is the Indonesian billionaire and former Suharto crony Anthoni Salim with his minor partner the giant Japanese telco NTT. Globe Telecom's biggest stockholder on the other hand is the Singaporean state firm Singtel. With their lucrative duopoly the foreign firms have remitted out of the Philippines gargantuan profits totaling $9 billion from 2000 to 2015. How are these foreign firms able to bypass the constitutional limit on foreign control of public utilities with little resistance from the Philippine body politic? This book exposes the chicanery behind the acquisition of the country's biggest corporations, the corruption and cronyism that had allowed this to happen, and the pernicious plot to amend the Constitution to perpetuate the foreign control of companies over vital sectors of our economy.

Book The Sovereign Trickster

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vicente L. Rafael
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2021-11-15
  • ISBN : 1478022418
  • Pages : 119 pages

Download or read book The Sovereign Trickster written by Vicente L. Rafael and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Sovereign Trickster Vicente L. Rafael offers a prismatic view of the age of Rodrigo Duterte in the contemporary Philippines. Framing Duterte as a trickster figure who boasts, jokes, terrorizes, plays the victim, and instills terror, Rafael weaves together topics ranging from the drug war, policing, and extrajudicial killings to neoliberal citizenship, intimacy, and photojournalism. He is less concerned with defining Duterte as a fascist, populist, warlord, and traditional politician than he is with examining what Duterte does: how he rules, the rhetoric of his humor, his use of obscenity to stoke fear, and his projection of masculinity and misogyny. Locating Duterte's rise within the context of counterinsurgency, neoliberalism, and the history of electoral violence, while drawing on Foucault’s biopower and Mbembe’s necropolitics, Rafael outlines how Duterte weaponizes death to control life. By diagnosing the symptoms of the authoritarian imaginary as it circulates in the Philippines, Rafael provides a complex account of Duterte’s regime and the social conditions that allow him to enjoy continued support.

Book Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease

Download or read book Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease written by Elsevier India and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 1412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Revolution Falters

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  • Author : P. N. Abinales
  • Publisher : SEAP Publications
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780877271321
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book The Revolution Falters written by P. N. Abinales and published by SEAP Publications. This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed investigation of the contemporary Philippine Left, focusing on the political challenges and dilemmas that confronted activists following the disintegration of the Marcos regime and the reestablishment of electoral democracy under Corazon Aquino. The authors focus on such varied topics as peasant politics, urban social movements, purges and executions, and Marxist theory.

Book President Rodrigo Duterte and the War on Drugs

Download or read book President Rodrigo Duterte and the War on Drugs written by William N. Holden and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since his election in 2016, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has directed a brutal anti-drug campaign. William N. Holden examines the motives and organizational methods of the campaign by analyzing it through conceptual frameworks of penal populism, noble cause corruption, revanchism, and state terrorism.

Book Duterte Harry

Download or read book Duterte Harry written by Jonathan Miller and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2018-05-28 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of Rodrigo Duterte, the murderous, unpredictable president of the Philippines, whose war on drugs has seen thousands of people killed in cold blood. Rodrigo Duterte was elected President of the Philippines in 2016. In his first 18 months in office, 12,000 people were murdered on the streets, gunned down by police officers and vigilante citizens — all with his encouragement. Duterte is a serial womaniser and a self-confessed killer, who has called both Barack Obama and Pope Francis ‘sons of whores’. He is on record as saying he does not ‘give a shit’ about human rights. Yet he is beloved of the 16.6 million Filipinos who voted for him, seen as vulgar but honest, a breath of fresh air, and an iconoclastic, anti-imperialist rebel. In this revelatory biography, Channel 4 News’ Asia Correspondent Jonathan Miller charts Duterte’s rise, and shows how this fascinating, fearsome man can be seen as the embodiment of populism in our time.

Book The Filipino State and Other Essays

Download or read book The Filipino State and Other Essays written by Guillermo Gomez Rivera and published by . This book was released on 2018-12 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Filipino State and Other Essays is a compendium of historical facts about the Filipino nation and people as never told before. Guillermo Gómez Rivera reveals for the first time the truth about the birth of the Philippines which is being deliberately omitted by history books taught in Philippine schools. Find out why there is an ongoing cultural genocide with regard to the Filipino language.

Book History of the Philippines

    Book Details:
  • Author : Captivating History
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-05-19
  • ISBN : 9781637163436
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book History of the Philippines written by Captivating History and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Debunked

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rigoberto Tiglao
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 9786219604703
  • Pages : 433 pages

Download or read book Debunked written by Rigoberto Tiglao and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Law and Social Theory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Reza Banakar
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2014-07-18
  • ISBN : 1782252045
  • Pages : 694 pages

Download or read book Law and Social Theory written by Reza Banakar and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a growing interest within law schools in the intersections between law and different areas of social theory. The second edition of this popular text introduces a wide range of traditions in sociology and the humanities that offer provocative, contextual views on law and legal institutions. The book is organised into six sections, each with an introduction by the editors, on classical sociology of law, systems theory, critical approaches, law in action, postmodernism, and law in global society. Each chapter is written by a specialist who reviews the literature, and discusses how the approach can be used in researching different topics. New chapters include authoritative reviews of actor network theory, new legal realism, critical race theory, post-colonial theories of law, and the sociology of the legal profession. Over half the chapters are new, and the rest are revised in order to include discussion of recent literature.

Book Commanders

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bob Woodward
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2012-12-11
  • ISBN : 1471104745
  • Pages : 551 pages

Download or read book Commanders written by Bob Woodward and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is impossible to examine any part of the war on terrorism in the twenty-first century without seeing the hand of Dick Cheney, Colin Powell or one of their loyalists. The Commanders,an account of the use of the military in the first Bush administration, is in many respects their story -- the intimate account of the tensions, disagreements and debates on the road to war.

Book Slow

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brooke McAlary
  • Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
  • Release : 2018-07-10
  • ISBN : 149266555X
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Slow written by Brooke McAlary and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free Yourself from a Frantic Life and Embrace the Joy of Slow Living What is slow living? It's a way to find happiness by stepping away from the never-ending demands to constantly succeed and acquire more and more. It's easy to get stuck in the carousel of frantically wanting, buying, and upgrading the things in your life. The philosophy of simple living is about finding the freedom to be less perfect and taking time to enjoy the pure joys of life: a walk in the forest, sharing laughter with family, a personal moment of gratitude. Reconnecting with the living world can help you integrate moments of peace, joy, and mindfulness into an otherwise rapid life. Simple living: After being diagnosed with post-natal depression, Brooke McAlary learned about the power of minimalism and found that the key to happiness was a simpler, more fulfilling existence. She put the brakes on her stressful path and reorganized her life to live outside the status-quo, emphasizing depth, connection, and meaningful experiences. Brooke shares the story of her journey alongside practical advice for simplifying in ways that work for your life. In Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World, you'll find: Guidance for forming your own slow life Ways to declutter and de-own Tips to replace messiness with mindfulness Paths forward to answer the question "Where to now?" Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World is an excellent addition to your library if you have read Soulful Simplicity, The Art of Frugal Hedonism, The Year of Less, or Destination Simple.

Book Neoliberalizing Spaces in the Philippines

Download or read book Neoliberalizing Spaces in the Philippines written by Arnisson Andre Ortega and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amidst the recent global financial crisis and housing busts in various countries, the Philippines’ booming housing industry has been heralded as “Southeast Asia’s hottest real estate hub” and the saving grace of a supposedly resilient Philippine economy. This growth has been fueled by demand from balikbayan (returnee) Overseas Filipinos and has facilitated the rise of gated suburban communities in Manila’s sprawling peri-urban fringe. But as the “Filipino dreams” of successful balikbayans are built inside these new gated residential developments, the lives of marginalized populations living in these spaces have been upended and thrown into turmoil as they face threats of expulsion. Based on almost four years of research, this book examines the tumultuous geographies of neoliberalization that link suburbanization, transnational mobilities, and accumulation by dispossession. Through an accounting of real estate and new suburban landscapes, it tells of a Filipino transnationalism that engenders a market-based and privatized suburban political economy that reworks socio-spatial relations and class dynamics. In presenting the literal and discursive transformations of spaces in Manila’s peri-urban fringe, the book details life inside new gated suburban communities and discusses the everyday geographies of “privileged” new property owners—mainly comprised of balikbayan families—and exposes the contradictions of gated suburban life, from resistance to Home Owner Association rules to alienating feelings of loss. It also reveals the darker side of the property boom by mapping the volatile spaces of the Philippines’ surplus populations comprised of the landless farmers, informal settler residents, and indigenous peoples. To make way for gated communities and other profitable developments in the peri-urban region, marginalized residents are systematically dispossessed and displaced while concomitantly offered relocation to isolated socialized housing projects, the last frontier for real estate accumulation. These compelling accounts illustrate how the territorial embeddedness of neoliberalization in the Philippines entails the consolidation of capital by political-economic elites and privatization of residential space for an idealized transnational property clientele. More than ever, as the Philippines is being reshaped by diaspora and accumulation by dispossession, the contemporary moment is a critical time to reflect on what it truly means to be a nation.