You can now grab your copies of your favorite books by UP’s best authors more easily as the University of the Philippines Press officially opened UPper Shelf, its first off-campus outlet, at the second floor of the UP Town Center. Located behind classic favorites Rodic’s and Chocolate Kiss, UPper Shelf hopes to bring UP’s top titles to a wider audience.
The University takes pride in the accomplishments of its faculty, alumni, and the UP Press in this year’s National Book Awards.
The book “Traditional Medicine in the Colonial Philippines: 16th to the 19th Century” by Ma. Mercedes Planta, PhD, presents “various medicinal plants that Filipino traditional medical practitioners or herbolarios have been prescribing since the precolonial period.” Through the book, the author invites readers to harness from the “usable past” the potentials of the knowledge and practices studied and recorded by the Spanish missionaries in the country during the 17th to the 19th century.
