[New book] King Gojong's second son, about his tragic life..."The Last Kingdom"

▲The Last Kingdom / Daniel Tudor / Kim Young-sa

About the tragic life of a character weathered in time of history

In 1891, at the end of the Korean Empire, a 14-year-old boy Lee Kang entered the Joseon Palace. The second son of King Gojong, Lee Kang, who was born to a court lady and grew up outside the palace, entered the palace and was given the title of Uihwagun and began his life as a formal prince. He lives with his weak father, Gojong, Jung Jeon-min, who was the most powerful and powerful man in the palace, and half-brother Crown Prince Lee Cheok (Sunjong) to learn the royal court's law. However, Lee Kang, who had been wandering due to his longing for his birth mother and unfamiliar royal life, fled to the home of American missionary Underwood in the wake of the Eulmi Incident, and eventually left to study in the United States...

What was the life of King Gojong's son, Yi Gang. Lee Kang's eyes look at the miserable situation of the Joseon royal family, which has already lost its strength, such as studying in the U.S., wandering from a deprived childhood, such as the death of his mother and the growth outside the palace, house arrest after the assassination attempt of the Joseon governor, and asylum attempts to support the provisional government. With meticulous and intelligent writings backed by detailed descriptions and thick data research by British author Daniel Tudor, readers fall into a different feeling as if they were reading a foreign novel whose subject matter is our history.

▲If there is an autistic student in my class / By Ellen Noteboom / Playing Heo Seong-sim / Hanhwa Multimedia

How to understand their inner world and lead them to grow up to be independent adults

Any teacher in charge of an autistic student would have felt at least once frustrated and fearful. It is difficult to teach or guide properly due to behavioral characteristics that are often considered a disadvantage of autistic students, such as fragmentary thoughts, repetitive behaviors, and excessive concentration on one thing that do not understand the perspective of others. But there is a reason for every behavior of autistic students. In order to communicate meaningfully with them, teachers must break the framework of deep-rooted prejudices.

It is a book that tells teachers who struggle as autistic students how they feel, think, and learn from the perspective of autistic students. Author Ellen Noteboom is a mother of two sons with autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and based on her experience raising her children brilliantly, insights from teachers and experts she met along the way, and perspectives from several adult autistic people, she helps them break the hard shell of prejudice surrounding autistic students and truly understand them.

▲ Brain Science of Don / Chikako Uehara / Station of Oh Jung-hwa / Oriental Books

If you want to be rich, look into your brain, not your bank account

Why can't we raise money when we are desperately hanging on to it. The answer is rather simple. First, you have to let your brain like money. Author Chikako Uehara introduces 'financial therapy' that treats money problems from a psychological perspective. It is to fill financial technology with brain science and psychology, which was not enough to study money alone.

This book makes the brain like money by looking at the beliefs that prevent it from saving money, how the values of being rich are different, and how talking habits affect the relationship with money. It also tells you how to set your life plan and financial goals and what to be careful about when investing, and elevates your money management ability to the next level.

▲ If the beauty of mathematics becomes a narrative / Sarah Hart / Ko Yu-gyeong / The Window of the Future

How does math make sense

"For Stubb, mathematics is mysterious, even malicious. But for Issue Mail, math, especially symmetry, symbolizes virtue. Issue Mail claims that the sperm whale's head looks dignified because it is 'mathematical symmetrical', and that it will even define a new mathematical concept in relation to it. He said, 'If the head of a native whale is a solid rectangle, it can be divided into two quarks, Quoin, on the slope. Among them, the lower part is the bone structure that forms the head bone and jaw, and the upper part is a slippery mass with no bones at all."

In Herman Melville's "Moby Dick", the mention that the sperm whale's head is mathematically symmetrical is not a simple description, but a mathematical metaphor. The complex structure of James Joyce's novel, as well as the infamous Moriarty in Arthur Conan Doyle's "Sherlock Homes" series, are closely related to mathematics. This book interestingly delves into how mathematical thinking is incorporated into the works of literature we know well and expands our perception.