Jose Rizal : life, works and writings of a genius, writer, scientist and national hero / Gregorio F. Zaide and Sonia M. Zaide

Advent of a national hero -- Childhood years in Calamba -- Early educatio in Calamba and Bi an -- Scholastic Triumphs at ateneo de Manila, (1872-1877) -- Medical Studies at the University of Santo Tomas (1877-1882) -- In Sunny Spain (1882-1885) -- Paris to Berlin (1885-1887) -- Noli Me Tangere published in Berlin (1887) -- Rizal's grand tour of Europe with viola (1887) -- First homecoming (1887-1888) -- In Hong Kong and Macao (1888) -- Romantic interlude in Japan (1888) -- Rizal's visit to the United States (1888) -- Rizal in London (1888-1889) -- Rizal's second sojourn in Paris and the universal exposition of 1889 -- In Belgian Brussels (1890) -- Misfortunes in Madrid (1890-1891) -- Biarritz Vacations and Romance with Nelly Boustead (1891) -- El filibusterismo Published in Ghent (1891)<br> Ophthalmic Surgeon in Hong Kong (1891-1892) -- Second Homecoming and the Liga Filipina -- Exile in Dapitan (1892-96) -- Last trip abroad (1986) -- Last homecoming and trial -- Martyrdom at Bagumbayan.

This new book on Rizal is primarily written to replace the previous college textbooks on Rizal by the senior author, namely, Jose Rizal: Life, Works and Writings and Rizal: Asia's First Apostle of Nationalism, published in 1957 and 1970, respectively. While these two Rizal books have been widely used both there is a need to write a new Rizal book on account of the fact that new materials on the national hero's life have surfaced in history's limelight, making the older editions rather obsolete or inaccurate in certain passages.