About the book "Give And Take" This book reveals one of the most interesting facets of Larry Henares' talents and inclinations. He is what his readers call "a traitor to his class." A retired businessman and public servant with a talent for making money and an inclination to serve the least of his brethren, he now turns around to expose the venalities of his former associates, friends and relatives in business and government, decrying the conspiracies that betray the people's trust. For a long time, Henares took over the front pages of the most popular sheet at the time, the Philippine Daily...

About the book "To Be Or Not To Be" In this the tenth book of the Make My Day series, we find another aspect of the author's multi-sided personality. An engineer and economist with a talent for mathematics, a poet and essayist with a talent for the communications arts, a businessman with the talent for making money - a Renaissance Man with the two sides of his brain equally developed and an IQ of 170 - he is also a lover of books, music and performance arts. In this book, Henares displays his love of the stage, of Shakespeare, and the musicals of Broadway. Here he writes of the Shakespeare in...

Frankie Sinatra's Songs Collection + + + Introduction: Frankie, the song is you I hear music and when I look at you, the beautiful theme of every dream I ever knew. Down deep in my heart, I hear it play. I feel it start then melt away. I hear music when I touch your hand, a beautiful melody from some enchanted land. Down deep in my heart, I hear it say, is it today? I alone have heard this lovely strain. I alone have heard this glad refrain. Must it be forever inside of me? Why can't I let it go? Why can't I let you know? Why can't I let you know the song my heart would sing, that beautiful...

About the book "Swans And Swine" When Larry Henares tells the life story of the various personalities he encounters, he is at his best and at his wittiest. Taking off from his magnificent essay "Sunrise, sunset, swiftly go the years" on her daughter Elvira's life as a student and as a bride in a previous book, he now speaks of his daughter as a clone of his mother and one of a kind, as she struggles to conquer her fear of failure. And oh, the true story of how Secretary Ting Jayme owes his place in history to The Big Sleep, falling asleep when Marcos was making a major policy speech, and...

Hilarion M. Henares Jr., known as Larry Henares, is a graduate of Ateneo de Manila, University of the Philippines, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an engineer, economist, educator, big businessman, writer, civic leader, public servant, and hobbyist (guns, books, amateur radio and electronics). He is a film maker who won the Famas Academy Award for the Best Documentary of the Year. He was a businessman who was awarded Young Businessman of the Year, and the Industrialist of the Year by the Business Writers Association. He was an educator who was dean of two graduate schools...

TABLE OF CONTENTS PERSONALITIES - p6 CHAPTER 1. Okay, Who Took My Balisong - p6 Part 1. Hark The Angel In Batangas - p6 Part 2. Batanguenos Are Too Much - p7 Part 3. Cavite Created Batangas - p7 Part 4. The Bad Luck Bride - p9 Part 5. Senator Maria K. K. - p11 Part 6. Chiching, The Great Censor - p12 Part 7. Where Is My Balisong? - p12 CHAPTER 2. US Vice President Dan Quayle - p13 Part 1. Erap is brighter than Dan Quayle - p13 Part 2. Dan Quayle, prince of fools, certified idiot - p14 CHAPTER 3. Cipriano Primicias - p15 Part 1. Maramba- Primicias Feud - p15 Part 2. A Streak Of Madness in the...

TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1. By Arabian curse, we live in historic times - p6 CHAPTER 2. Tom Alcantara and Christine's Delight - p8 CHAPTER 3. To Bishops: Vox Populi, Vox Ecclesiae, Vox Dei - p10 CHAPTER 4. Listen to Caruso in full fidelity sound - p11 CHAPTER 5. The Saga of Rosie Cojuangco - p13 CHAPTER 6. Building St. Lucifer's Church - p15 CHAPTER 7. Emilio Ong -- Charlie Chan or Fu Manchu or Siopao Man? - p17 CHAPTER 8. The Battle of Gettysburg - p19 CHAPTER 9. The Philippine-American War (1898-1902) - p21 Part 1: USA spoiling for a fight with Spain - p21 Part 2: Knuckle Head George...

TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword by Kim Jacinto-Henares, The Teachers Who Shaped His Life - p6 PERSONALITIES - p10 CHAPTER 1. Voice of voiceless, I am the Equalizer - p10 CHAPTER 2. Funny thing happened on the way to Malacanang - p11 Part 1. The Unspeakable Aspiring for the Unattainable - p11 Part 2. Cory Has The Eyes Of A Woman In Love - p13 Part 3. Cory, beware Cesar's Old Shell Game - p15 Part 4. Love is blind, conquers all, destroys - p17 CHAPTER 3. Cory, the Army and the Americans - p18 Part 1. Civil War: deep wounds that never heal - p18 Part 2. Security Guards or Masters of Destiny? - p20...

TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword by Senator Lorenzo M. Tanada - p7 CHAPTER 1. Make My Day is a morality play - p8 CHAPTER 2. The TECHNOQUACK Series - p10 CHAPTER 3. Elena Lim of Sony - p11 Part 1. Robin Padilla's marbles can be crushed by Bea Lucero - p11 Part 2. Elena Lim and the mother of all scams - p13 Part 3. Town Crier Elena and what Tommy's got - p15 Part 4. Elena Lim of Sony, Tiger Prawns and Kia - p17 CHAPTER 4. George Canseco, composer - p21 Part 1. The music makers, the dreamers of dreams - p21 Part 2. George Canseco's sheer poetry - p22 Part 3. Kapantay ay langit, as infinite, as...