Bound Bookshop has adjusted its store days and hours. The bookstore is now open daily, including Sundays and most holidays, from 10 a.m. to 12 midnight. Yes, you heard it right: 12 midnight.

Bound serves coffee and other refreshments and offers free unlimited wi-fi connection to clients, with no minimum purchase required.

Guerrilla P.R. 2.0: Wage an Effective Publicity Campaign without Going Broke
By Michael Levine

The world’s most widely used and seminal introduction to public relations—now fully revised and updated for the 21st century with online strategies that work

Every Fortune 500 corporation, movie star, and scandal queen knows that a good publicist is essential to building success and maintaining public support. But if you’re a small business owner, an entrepreneur, or an undercapitalized beginner seeking an edge in a highly competitive arena, it’s unlikely that you have your own high-powered publicist.

Guerrilla P.R. 2.0 offers all the resources necessary to mount your own campaign and get the media exposure you need. In clear and concise language, Michael Levine, one of the top public relations counselors in the country, reveals the same procedures he uses every day to get press on major stars—and how those strategies can be utilized on little or no budget. You’ll learn how to think like a publicist and map out the perfect strategy for success.

A paperback copy (new) of Guerrilla P.R. 2.0 is available for sale at Bound Bookshop. Call (7992004) or email us (boundbookshop@gmail.com) now to reserve this book. Other books on public relations, communications, marketing and media, as well as on other subjects, are also available for sale at bargain prices.

From Nocturnal Neurons:

“THE RICKY LEE READERS”

Gina Alajar, Chanda Romero, Cherie Pie Picache, Cesar Montano, Lorna Tolentino, Eugene Domingo and Piolo Pascual will be reading excerpts from Ricky Lee’s upcoming novel Para kay B (O kung paano dinevastate ng pag-ibig ang 4 out of 5 sa atin) at the grand book launch on NOVEMBER 30, Sunday, 4 PM at the UP Bahay ng Alumni, Diliman, Quezon City. No less than Ms. Marilou Diaz-Abaya will be the director-of-ceremonies of this star-studded event to be graced by luminaries in the fields of cinema, television, and literature.

To attend this event and get a copy of the book, please secure your passes/bookmarks from these contact details:
0906-5208085;
0921-7849363;
ewongco@gmail.com;
writers.studio12@gmail.com.

Hong Kong, 13 November 2008 ­– A panel of three internationally acclaimed authors and experienced literary judges named Filipino author Miguel Syjuco the winner of the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize for his novel Ilustrado, a fictional account of a young Filipino caught within a notorious scandal spanning over the Philippine history.

(The same novel also won the grand prize for the novel in this year’s Palanca awards. More about Syjuco and his novel here.)

The Many Ways of Being Muslim: Fiction by Muslim Filipinos
Edited By Coeli Barry

This landmark collection brings together for the first time 22 short stories by nine Muslim Filipinos written over nearly seven decades, beginning in the 1940s. As the stories in this anthology reflect, there is no simple or complex way to capture the complex ways Muslims from different backgrounds – but especially those from the college-educated middle classes — interact with and help define contemporary Filipino identity and intellectual life. Few Muslims have seen their work anthologized in major short story collections in the Philippines: this anthology, possibly the biggest assemblage of Muslim Filipino fictionists, is intended to give readers in the Philippines and elsewhere a chance to read and enjoy their writings.

A softcover copy (new) of The Many Ways of Being Muslim: Fiction by Muslim Filipinos is available for sale at Bound Bookshop for only Php780.00. Call (7992004) or email us (boundbookshop@gmail.com) now to reserve this book. Other books on literature, local and international, as well as on other subjects, are also available for sale at bargain prices.

The Wisdom of Crowds
By James Surowiecki

In this fascinating book, New Yorker business columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant–better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future.

With boundless erudition and in delightfully clear prose, Surowiecki ranges across fields as diverse as popular culture, psychology, ant biology, behavioral economics, artificial intelligence, military history, and politics to show how this simple idea offers important lessons for how we live our lives, select our leaders, run our companies, and think about our world.

A softcover secondhand copy (good as new) of The Wisdom of Crowds is available for sale at Bound Bookshop for only Php600.00. Call (7992004) or email us (boundbookshop@gmail.com) now to reserve this book. Other books on business and finance, as well as other subjects, are also available for sale at bargain prices.

A Fish in the Water: A Memoir
By Mario Vargas Llosa

In 1990, Mario Vargas Llosa decided to run for the presidency of his native Peru, campaigning on a platform of economic reform and stringent counterterrorism against the Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path. His campaign against (and ultimate defeat by) Alberto Fujimori was the stuff of international headlines, transforming an eminent writer into a politician of world stature.

A Fish in the Water is Vargas Llosa’s disarming and deeply absorbing response to that profoundly heady - and troubling - experience. This is a twofold book: a memoir of the formation of one of Latin America’s most celebrated artists, from his birth in Arequipa in 1936 to his departure for Europe to make his career as a writer, and, in alternating chapters, the story of Vargas Llosa’s organization of the reform movement which culminated in his bid for the presidency. In this richly personal work, Vargas Llosa evokes the experiences which gave rise to his fiction, including his stay at the Leoncio Prado Military Academy, which was the basis of his first book, The Time of the Hero, and his desperate attempts to marry while still a minor, as recounted in hilarious detail in Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. In parallel, he describes the social, literary, and political influences that led him to enter the political arena as a crusader for modern democracy and a free-market economy. Offering an unexpectedly intimate look at how fact becomes fiction and at the formation of a courageous and original politician and thinker. A Fish in the Water reveals Mario Vargas Llosa as a world figure whose real story is just beginning.

A softcover secondhand copy of A Fish in the Water is available for sale at Bound Bookshop for only Php500.00. A softcover copy of one of his works, The Storyteller, is also available for only Php125.00. Call (7992004) or email us (boundbookshop@gmail.com) now to reserve these books. Other biographies and memoirs, as well as literary fiction (classical and contemporary) are also available for sale at bargain prices.

The APA Collection at the Library of Congress is exhibiting the books of Asian American women poets in collaboration with the First Annual Festival of Women’s Poetry on the Internet.

Dr. Floro Quibuyen, author of A NATION ABORTED, will speak about how Rizal has been misrepresented by the prevailing orthodoxy on Philippine nationalism in a lecture titled, “What Nation was Aborted? Recovering History from Historians,” on Tuesday, November 11, from 4 pm, at the Museo ng Maynila (what used to be the Army and Navy Club), Roxas Blvd., Manila.

The recent historic victory of Barack Obama in the US presidential race has heightened interest in the African-American experience. At Bound Bookshop, we have several titles on black history, racism and related issues. Among these are Africana: Arts and Letters by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., available for only Php560.00, and A Small Nation of People: W.E.B. Dubois and African American Portraits of Progress, available for only Php395.00.

“The original Africana was inspired by a dream of the late W.E.B. Du Bois and shaped by an eminent advisory board led by Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka. It packed 3,500 entries into 2,000 pages and garnered great critical acclaim. Now, in Africana: Arts and Letters, series editors Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., present a selection of the most notable African-American events, writers, musicians and artists that helped to shape culture and history.”

“A Small Nation of People is a collection of 150 rare photographs of African-Americans since slavery and beyond, with essays by Pulitzer Prize-winner David Levering Lewis and African-American photo historian Deborah Willis, a MacArthur fellow.”

Call (7992004) or email us (boundbookshop@gmail.com) now to reserve these books. Other titles on politics, current affairs and history, as well as hundreds of other titles on different subjects, are also available for sale at bargain prices.