Anvil Publishing Inc: 184 books

There’s truly something special about preparing meals for the people who matter in your life. I see that good food can put smiles on their faces, and I consider it an accomplishment that I am able to make people happy with the food I cook. So, really, this book is for my family, my friends,...

A Field Guide to the Roads of Manila is a map to the worlds of award-winning fictionist Dean Francis Alfar’s imagination. The real and the unreal intersect in these fifteen stories of fantasy, science fiction, and horror and celebrate the wonder of speculative fiction.

The present volume invites the student to learn sociology by looking at her own formation as a human being, growing up and living in a society that time incessantly shapes and organizes in a specific but ultimately predictable way. Instead of talking about society in the abstract, we give it names...

Fifteen intensely personal accounts by women who fearlessly debunked the myth of midlife crisis to emerge complete, satisfied, and confident of their potentials and achievements as women and as persons. The book looks closely at the different perspectives of that anxiety-filled phase and provides insights that will empower all women to face the inevitable.

“Walang basagan ng trip,” is one of the vilest phrases in colloquial Tagalog, reflecting a long anti-critic tradition in Philippine arts. When artists use the term, they are asking critical voices to shut up and smile: Don’t criticize my work (my “trip”); we’re all just trying to be happy...

“This is a book of personal letters that continue to tell the story of my life …” Letters tell stories, too. Written words can move hearts. From the multi-awarded Asian-American writer comes a new collection of personal letters that captured long-lasting memories. Just like its predecessor...

Sine Gabay contains a compilation of 100 Filipino films that Deocampo had featured in his numerous film screenings and lectures. Included are titles of classic feature-length films like Bata, Bata. . . Paano Ka Ginawa?, Burlesk Queen, Himala, and Oro, Plata, Mata, as well as documentaries, animation,...

"The folktales are appropriate in terms of language because the mother-tongue is used in narrating/reading them. Studies have proven that learners who begin in their mother tongue have more efficient cognitive development and are better prepared for more cognitively demanding subject matter....

This work is essentially a philosophy of history. The author’s research on this topic spans more than three decades. Part One of this book has three chapters. Chapter I is divided into seven sections featuring philosophers who see a plan in history. Chapter II is divided into two sections featuring...

Single. Alone. Solo. Lonely. Dried out. Unfortunate. NBSB (no boyfriend since birth). Searching. Waiting. Hoping. This book is for you. So you will know that even if you do not have a significant other, you are not alone. You will never be alone. Short essays in Filipino by the bestselling author of Parang Kayo, Pero Hindi.

Filipino humorist RJ Ledesma shares the five universal steps of flirting that women use to ensnare clueless men; he raises male literacy levels by educating men in the finer points of female body language; and reveals the secrets of professional pick-up artists that make women do things that they will regret in the morning. 

Mila Guerrero’s Luzon at War, first written in 1977, grew out of a world in motion seeking to understand another earlier era of radical turmoil. Its findings helped lay the groundwork for the emergence since the 1980s of new ways for understanding the historical roots and unresolvable contradictions...

This book is a journey to the past and a peek at the future. For the old, playing native games is an exhilarating return to one’s youth. For the young, it is simply a bridge to being a citizen with a sound mind in a sound body. The book is a valuable reference for Physical Education teachers and grade school teachers who can use games and activities in classroom instruction.

At 16 years, Vicente Paterno traded to help support his family during World War II. A mechanical engineer, he acquired an MBA at the Harvard Business School and returned home to work in Philippine business. As VP-Treasurer of Manila Electric Co., he revalued company assets to replacement costs, making...