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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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; and Sergio, the poor sap who just needs to find the town's escaped, raffle-winning pig, Pogi.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In everyday Filipino life, the word hiyang carries profound meaning. A person might say, 'hiyang sa akin ang gamot na ito' (i.e., this medicine suits me) or lament that a treatment is 'hindi hiyang.' For generations, Filipinos have used this term to capture the mystery of why some remedies work for certain people but not for others. What once seemed like cultural intuition is now at the center of a rapidly advancing science: pharmacogenetics.