Biographies in Blood traces twelve scientists and healers who shaped modern medicine across labs and wards. From award-winning immunologists and transfusion pioneers to Filipino healers and frugal innovators, this book links bench science to lived care. It is a history of blood, power, and practical wisdom, and a call to make medicine both scientifically rigorous and culturally grounded.

Currents of Protection: Coagulation, Complement, and Neutrophils is a work of creative nonfiction that journeys across science, history, and the humanities to understand the deep entanglement of blood and defense. At its heart is the "triangle" of coagulation, complement, and neutrophils. The three intertwined systems that seal wounds, fight microbes, and sacrifice themselves for the survival of the body. Yet the book insists that this triangle cannot be understood within the labo...

"This sculpture interrogates the liminality of post-industrial silence."Translation: It's a rusted radiator in a white room, and it costs more than your mortgage.If you've ever stood in a gallery feeling like a philistine because you didn't "get" a pile of bricks, or if you've ever lived in a "machine for living" that felt more like a "container for misery", you've been a victim of the pseudoprofound.In Gilded Shell

In this English poetry anthology, I have collected my poems about Philippine seasons. In this tropical country, "season" is the shift from the sterile air-conditioning of a BPO office to the liquid heat of a Manila afternoon.

The Tuazon ancestral home in Manila is not falling down. It is simply… re-interpreting gravity. The patriarch refuses to acknowledge the 15-degree tilt. Meanwhile, his wife, Doña Marga, is preserving the family legacy by hermetically sealing the leftovers of every meal since 1998. Their daughter Clara is waiting for a fiancé who may or may not exist, and their son Nonoy is charting a map of the living room floor to avoid the spots where the marble cracks under the weight of disappointment....

In the Philippine coastal town of San Vicente, the Patron Saint's fiesta is about to collide with a typhoon. And somehow, that's the least of their problems. There's Don Raul, the aging, prideful mayor who is determined to stop a super-typhoon with sheer political will; his calculating daughter, Carla, who sees the disaster as the perfect backdrop for a very lucrative engagement; Liam, the artist obsessed with filming "The True Filipino Soul" but can't find a clean restroom

No, you are not neurodivergent.Or at least, I don't think it's useful for you to say so. You disagree? Check out my arguments.

Isagani is a man who prefers the company of clay to the company of people. This is mostly because clay pots rarely ask him why he is thirty-four and still single. As the proprietor of a repair shop that smells perpetually of dried tea leaves and varnish, Isagani specializes in the art of fixing things that others have given up on. Here is a gentle, atmospheric novel for anyone who has ever looked at a broken plate and thought, "I can work with this".

From the roots of ancient folk medicine to the frontiers of synthetic biology, Salinlunas traces the enduring relationship between plants and healing. Written with both scientific rigor and cultural insight, this book explores the molecules of life (i.e., alkaloids, terpenoids, phenolics, and polyketides) uncovering how they have shaped human health, survival, and discovery. Through stories of plant defense, chemical warfare, co-evolution, and landmark drugs, Salinlun...

Resistance Rising: Genetics, Evolution, and the Future of Infectious Disease examines the origins and genetic foundations of infectious diseases, focusing on the escalating threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Microbes are not passive adversaries; they evolve, adapt, and share resistance genes through mutation, horizontal gene transfer, and mobile genetic elements such as plasmids, transposons, and bacteriophages. These processes allow pathogens to survive under selective pre...

What does it mean to call someone, something, or even an entire institution phony? The word belongs to everyday speech, muttered in private, shouted in protest, and scribbled in notebooks. Yet it cuts to the core of our deepest disappointments. To name phoniness is to expose the painful gap between what is said and what is meant, between the performance of sincerity and the reality of conviction.In this ambitious treatise, Phonies: Authenticity Performance Fakery ...

A modern fable with an urgent message for young environmentalists. "Spectacular." (School Library Journal)Lynne Cherry journeyed deep into the rain forests of Brazil to write and illustrate this gorgeous picture book about a man who exhausts himself trying to chop down a giant kapok tree. While he sleeps, the forest’s residents, including a child from the Yanomamo tribe, whisper in his ear about the importance of trees and how "all living things depend on ...