WEIZMANN DICTIONARY FOR KIDS (VOLUME 2. LEARN IDEAS AND PLAY!: SCIENCE)
Kim Eun-Kyung, Shin Hyun-Jung, Lee Kyung-Ah, Park Sun-bin
#1 Bestselling Series WEIZMANN DICTIONARY is back with KIDS edition! Recommended by Korean Association of Gifted Education for Early Childhood
SERIES DESCRIPTION
WEIZMANN DICTIONARY FOR KIDS is a comprehensive dictionaries of mathematics and science for children in preschool. First, the series is known for its “Intuitive Arrangement” of the book; heavy visualization of mathematical and scientific concepts allows children to understand the principles of the study easily. Second, the series focuses on “building up the concept”; readers will independently take step-by-step guide to completely understand each topic of the book. Lastly, the activities and games throughout the book help children to demonstrate their knowledge, and explore math and science in their daily life.
WEIZMANN DICTIONARY FOR KIDS encourage readers to think critically, know the fundamental ideas of math and science, and develop their skills to excel in class throughout their years in preschool and elementary school.
TOPIC OF EACH TITLE
VOLUME 1. LEARN IDEAS AND PLAY!: MATHEMATICS VOLUME 2. LEARN IDEAS AND PLAY!: SCIENCE
The second book not only includes the basic ideas in science but also features new technology and its concepts. Children are able to meet and learn scientific knowledge with easy illustrations and demonstration. Games and activities are included in each chapter.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Author Kim Eun-Kyung edited many children’s nonfiction titles.
Author Shin Hyun-Jung studied Earth Science at Seoul National University. She is teaching at a middle school
Author Lee Kyung-Ah studied Biology and became a teacher. Author Park Sun-Bin is a teacher at a elementary school.
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WEIZMANN DICTIONARY FOR KIDS (VOLUME 1. LEARN IDEAS AND PLAY!: MATHEMATICS)
Lee Kyung-Mi, Kim Eun-Kyung, Yoon-Jung-Shim
SERIES DESCRIPTION
WEIZMANN DICTIONARY FOR KIDS is a comprehensive dictionaries of mathematics and science for children in preschool. First, the series is known for its “Intuitive Arrangement” of the book; heavy visualization of mathematical and scientific concepts allows children to understand the principles of the study easily. Second, the series focuses on “building up the concept”; readers will independently take step-by-step guide to completely understand each topic of the book. Lastly, the activities and games throughout the book help children to demonstrate their knowledge, and explore math and science in their daily life.
WEIZMANN DICTIONARY FOR KIDS encourage readers to think critically, know the fundamental ideas of math and science, and develop their skills to excel in class throughout their years in preschool and elementary school.
TOPIC OF EACH TITLE
VOLUME 1. LEARN IDEAS AND PLAY!: MATHEMATICS VOLUME 2. LEARN IDEAS AND PLAY!: SCIENCE
With Easy texts and cute illustrations, LEARN IDEAS AND PLAY!: MATHEMATICS introduces the most important concepts and skills for preschoolers. Visualization of mathematical ideas and fun activities are the strong points for the book.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Author Lee Kyung-Mi studied Mathematics at Korea University. She is a mathematics program developer and a writer for children’s picture books on mathematics.
Author Kim Eun-Kyung edited many children’s nonfiction titles.
Author Yoon Jung-Shim edited and published various children’s nonfiction and picture books.
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TREND 2017 : 10 Keywords to lead the future
Kim Rando
Prof. Kim Rando who is famous for his 2 million copies sold bestselling title ‘YOUTH, BECAUSE IT`S PAINFUL’ is originally the professor of Department of Consumer Science at Seoul National University. While teaching the courses, he has been running the Research Institute of Human Ecology at the school and publishing books which analyze the next year’s business and economy trends since 2007. This year is the 10th year that he started to publish the trend analysis book.
Even if the title of the book is ‘TREND 2017: 10 Keywords to lead the future’, the core concepts and trends inside the book are the common phenomena in the world. This book will be the must read book for the CEOs, workers and students who are living in the era of change and uncertainty and it explains the trend in 10 keywords.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kim Nando
Academic Experience
•Received doctorate in administrative studies at University of Southern California, master’s degree at Graduate School of Public Administration at Seoul National University
•Graduate Seoul National University School of Law
Professional Experience
•Professor of Department of Consumer Science and the director of Research Institute of Human Ecology, vice editor-in-chief of University Newspaper at Seoul National University.
•Vice President of Korean Society of Consumer Studies, Former director of Civil Society Revitalization Group
•Visiting researcher of ETRI-Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute-, and Gyeonggi Research Institute
•KBS
•Former counselor of professional baseball team ‘NC Dinos
Awards
•Educator of the Year 2006 of Seoul National University
•Receive the Jung Jin-Ki Journalism and Culture Award in 2008
•Korea Federation for Environmental Movements’ The Person of the Year in 2011
•Korean Society of Consumer Policy and Education’s best research paper of the year 2012
Consulting
Samsung Electronics, CJ Group, Amore Pacific, Coway, Shinhan Card, LG Electronics, Lotte Mart, Samsung Life, Citi Bank etc.
Publication
•「TREND KOREA」 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
•「LUXURY KOREA」, 「TREND CHINA」, 「KOREA CONSUMPTION 2011」
•「EMBRACE MY BROKEN DAYS , 「 YOUTH, BECAUSE IT`S PAINFUL」, 「 IT WILL TAKE 1,000 TIMES AGONY TO BECOME AN ADULT」, 「 FUTURE: MY JOB」
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WHAT DO YOU HAVE IN YOUR MIND?
Jun Woo Yeol, An Da Yeon
“One’s possession can tell many things of the person”
A simple yet precise guide for those who seek guidance within people,
and try to understand others in relationships.
The title ‘WHAT DO YOU HAVE IN YOUR MIND?: Finding the clue of our mind through our possessions’ takes our ordinary daily habits, usage of our things, our behavior, and it engages them with psychological insight. In the process of getting to know someone and understand them, it takes much more detail and closer observation than what we imagine. Through those elements we can find the answer to our difficulties amongst relationships with our friends, family and lover. The author Jun Woo Yeol, most famous psychiatrist, reveals why so many people in our current society suffer from great difficulty in interacting with other people and get mentally affected; thus reaches out in search for the answer to the cure. Doctor Jung introduces to the readers based on his long research with his patients on how we can approach to people and understand them deeply through their true nature, and improve our relationship others.
This book states that observing one’s possessions, behaviors and habits allows you to understand one’s psychology and personality. Furthermore, the book provides to the readers a simple but interesting guideline to improve their relationships that can apply to love, negotiation, and persuasion.
The highlight of this book is the examples which the author provides showing how fast one can analysis one person through observing their behavior for only a short amount of time. Their position in the elevator, their way of putting the phone on the table, how they act passing by show windows on the street, the first part of their body they clean in a shower, how they behave in a bad traffic, all these occasions can tell their deepest part of one’s psychology and their current mental status. In total of 99 stories and 94 illustrations the book approaches to the readers with humorous stories and abstract drawings analyzing our behaviors with a psychological insight.
The author also advises that understanding and taking in oneself is the key to find out why one clashes with others around. Also this is the way to form effortless and comfortable relationship with others around oneself.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jung Woo Yeol is a specialist in mental health care and runs a Thinking and Feeling health clinic center; also a member of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He gets famous as soon as he appears on famous TV shows and analyzes the audiences and the celebrity’s psychological status/mental status with a sharp point of view. For other books of his are When the Father Acts the Child Grows; Only What the Moms Know; Mom vs. Mom and etc.
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ANGRY PARENTS MAKE AGNRY KIDS
Oh Eun-young
A perfect parenting guide for the parents and children who struggles to control their anger
If you do not want to raise your child as a hot-tempered person, you should check this book now. Dr. Oh Eun-young, the most influential and reliable pediatric psychiatrist, offers practical solutions for the families who have difficulties with anger management. Emotional development does not just happen. It is naturally learned through communication between parents and children. So if parents get angry easily, it will have negative influence on children’s emotional developments, ruin the parent-child relationships, and hinder children’s problem-solving ability. How can parents manage their anger then? How should they communicate with their children?
The book ‘ANGRY PARENTS MAKE ANGRY KIDS’ introduces a variety of parenting situations that parents can easily lose their temper such as ‘When my kid shows aggressive behavior’, ‘If I cannot control my kid in the public place’ and ‘When kids talk back’. Based on these cases, this book provides you the tips to care your children without losing your temper, the ways to make your children be patient, and how children can manage their negative feelings by themselves. Children do not get angry in a sudden. There must be a reason. Let’s start to carefully watch your children and listen to their voice. It does not only focus on children’s anger management but also it lets you know how to deal with you and your spouse’s anger. If you do not want to be a hot-tempered parent, you need to look deep into yourselves, and stop blaming your children about your annoyance. Parents always have to keep in mind that ‘there is no kid who is born to be hot tempered.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Oh Eun-young is a pediatric psychiatrist specialist and the professor of Yonsei University College of Medicine. She runs Dr. Oh Children’s Clinic and the research center about children’s learning development. She has been actively working as a main counselor of the famous TV series ‘Our Children Have Changed’ of SBS and ‘Parents’ of EBS for about 10 years. She also published a number of parenting titles such as ‘THE STRESS OF YOUR CHILDREN’, ‘ANXIOUS MOTHER AND INDIFFERENCE FATHER’, and ‘IF YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH YOUR CHILDREN’.
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MY LITTLE LIBRARY (5volumes)
SERIES DESCRIPTION:
The series ‘MY LITTLE LIBRARY’ is simple and lovely encyclopedia for kindergarteners. This series consists of five books and topics of each book are related to the basic and key concepts for kids above 18-month old. The topics are vocabulary, numbers, color and shape, animals, and cars. From 18 months old, children’s ability to learn language is dramatically increased so it is important to give them chances to meet diverse good vocabularies.
The drawings of the series also stimulate curiosity of children and promote learning. All the covers of the series and the illustrations of the title ‘My First Words ‘ and ‘My First Numbers ‘are illustrated by the famous illustrator Stephen Barker who actively works with the best children’s book publishers; Usborne, Macmillan, and Egmont in the U.K.. A illustrator Samantha Meredith who publishes children’s book at Priddy book and Macmillan draws cute and familiar pictures for the title ‘My First Animals’ as well.
This board book series is highly recommended by the kindergarten teachers and parents and the covers are soft to touch!
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MR. BEAR CHAIR
Noh In-Kyung
All of us have difficulties of relationship and Mr. Bear also faces the same problem.
How does Mr. Bear deal with it then?
The book ‘MR. BEAR CHAIR’ is the sixth book of the renowned author Noh In-Kyung and its theme is ‘RELATIONSHIP’.
Calm and kind Mr. Bear loves his peaceful and regular life on the chair. One day, Mr. Bear accidently meets the explorer Rabbit and kind Mr. Bear shares his chair with the Rabbit. The Rabbit tells him an amazing adventure story of the world that Mr. Bear has never experienced or heard before. Mr. Rabbit is fascinated by the Rabbit’s lively character and stories and they get to be friend soon. After the Rabbit gets married and has babies, Mr. Bear has more and more friends. However, Mr. Bear becomes depressed than before. Of course, he likes the Rabbit but he realizes that he needs his own time without any interruption. The problem is he does not know how to tell his difficulties and conflicts to his friend since he has never experienced any similar problems in relationship. How does Mr. Bear solve this problem then?
This book lets you know how to build and maintain healthy relationship with others and many of you deeply sympathize what Mr. Bear feels when having a problem in relationship. It also makes you imagine the broaden and new world that Mr. Bear will meet after he bravely confesses his feeling to his friend Rabbit and steps forward to outside the ‘CHAIR’ world.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Noh In-Kyung is the renowned author who represents the picture book.
She was selected as Illustrator of the Year at the 2012 Bologna Children's Book Fair and won the Golden Apple Award at year 2013’s Biennial of Illustration Bratislava (BIB). Her recent work ‘X, the hedgehog’ also won the year 2015’s WHITE RAVEN.
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SMELLY BOOK series (5 volumes)
Baek Myung-Sik
SERIES DESCRIPTION:
Why a smell of sweat is awful?
Can we always have a sweet smell even if we do not take a shower?
Find secrets of Human body through the 5 worst smells of us; Fart, Poo, Sweat, Burp, and Pee
The ‘SMELLY BOOK’ series talks about our body’s five different smells. The topics can be dirty and seedy but it will be the most favorable theme of children! Human absorbs the nutrients from food and excrete waste matter through fart, poo, sweat, burp and pee. This human body’s function makes us healthy.
While reading the series, children are able to learn various knowledges of human body and science, and the series also provides information regarding animals, plants, and common sense of each topic. Children naturally have opportunities to understand basic science knowledge including circulation and the digestive organs, animals waste, the earth environment, alternative energy, and knowledges of cultures related to person’s physiology. In the last part of each book, it includes a short story and explains words which are related to the topics to help children’s understanding.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Baek Myung-Sik is one of the renowned Children book author in Korea. He has been publishing a number of Children book series such as ‘EAT NATURE’, ‘WHAT? NATURAL SCIENCE’, ‘HUMAN BODY PICTURE BOOK’, ‘YUMMY BOOK’, and ‘PIG SCIENCE SCHOOL series’. His titles have been received a big love from children and the titles have been sold to China, Taiwan, and Vietnam as well.
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TRAIN TO BUSAN
N.E.W.
ABOUT THE FILM AND STORY
-Over 11 million accumulated viewer in Korea, Open on 256 screens across France
-Screen at the 69th Cannes Film Festival and Invitation to 49th Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival
STORY
Life-or-death survival in train bound to Busan! A divorced man, Seok-woo is always caught up at work, leaving him no time to spare with his daughter Su-an. Su-an decides to take the KTX train to Busan by herself to see her mom and Seok-woo is pushed to accompany her.
As the train departs, an abnormal virus spreads from a girl who is infected and people start to transform to zombies. Will Seok-woo and Su-an make it out alive?
MOVIE TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d4DACwz49o
BBC ARTICLE: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36939395
ABOUT THE BOOK
The visual novel ‘TRAIN TO BUSAN’ realistically describes the fear of death, desperate struggles for survival and sacrifice for people whom someone love, and all the characters are the normal people who you can meet; A father who would like to protect his daughter, a cute high school couple, and a husband who love his pregnant wife more than his life.
This book also includes a special interview with the director Yeon Sang-ho, art works, the images of before and after Visual FX, and the film stills.
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WHERE YOUR SELF-ESTEEM GOES?:
Yoon Hong-kyun
The book ‘WHERE YOUR SELF-ESTEEM GOES?: Let’s improve self-esteem and love yourself’ kindly lets you know the influence of self-esteem on our life and provides practical guides to build self-esteem. This book will help people who would like to have high self-esteem but do not know the ways, and make recover self-esteem of people who have inner conflicts.
This book consists of seven parts as follow:
Part 1 handles misunderstanding and prejudice against ‘Self-esteem’ and lets you know why self-esteem is import for your life.
Part 2 and 3 deal with the problems of love, relationship, and parting which can be encountered when your self-esteem is low.
Part 4 and 5 are the ‘Guide to deal with your emotions’. These parts include the tips to manage feelings related to self-esteem such as self-hate, depression and anxiety.
The last 6 and 7 parts provide you practical, specific, and effective tips to improve self-esteem.
This book also contains 24 trainings to improve self-esteem throughout the book such as ‘Close the book, get out of the house, and start to walk’ , ‘Say “So What’’, ‘Writing IT’S OK diary’ and ‘Buy a gift for yourself’. While following the trainings, you can focus on yourself, your decision, and your will and stay ways from other’s judgement. When you finish the last lecture of this book, you will find out that you have a totally different perspective on your life and start to love yourself truly.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Yoon Hong-kyun is the director of the Yoon Hong-kyun mental health clinic. He graduated from Chuang-Ang University Medical School and received doctorate degree at the same university.
Dr. Yoon has been writing articles and columns for Kyung Hyang Newspaper, Megazine Lady Kyung Hyang, and Hankook Ilbo. He also appeared on the TV show ‘EBS The couple has changed’ as a counsellor.
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THE WAY TO BE A PERFECT KID series
Tatsumi Nagisa, Ikeda Keigo
The bestselling author Tatsumi Nagisa presents a special educational comic series ‘THE WAY TO BE A PERFECT KID’ for children’s good habits and attitude. The main characters of each book are not good at cleaning up or do not know about the proper manners. However, they have gradually changed with lessons of the master of Manner and the god of tidying up. The interesting characters and illustrations will let children naturally develop independence with fun.
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Humanities For Children
Cho Seung Yeon
Simple and Easy Lectures to Developing the Knowledge about Humanities for Children
The title ‘Humanities For Children’ includes 45 interesting stories which explain origin of a word. While learning the meanings and the origins of the words, children widen their knowledge about Humanities.
1. STORY: Origin of A Word
This title explains origin of each word and provides history of change of its meanings with interesting stories. For instance, the word ‘Robot’ was introduced to the public by the Czech play writer Karel Capek. In the Middle Age, Austria occupied the Czech and ruled them. Many people were treated like slaves and they started to call themselves as ‘Rabota’. The paly writer Capek presented Androids, creatures who can be mistaken for humans, in his play and android do the hard work for humans for the first time. However, they got smarter than humans and they ruled the humans like slaves. Capek called this android as ‘Robot’ which means slaves in Czech language.
2. CARTOON: Episode regarding A Word
This title provides the short cartoons for children for each word to help children understand how the word is used now.
3. IMPROVING KNOWLEDGE
This title also introduces the stories and knowledge which are derived from the word.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The author Cho Seung Yeon is a professional writer and CEO of ‘Originvoca’, the company for developing English learning contents. The author has been writing columns regarding ‘Learning Business English Through Humanities’ and ‘Culture DNA’ in Chosun Newspaper Weekly Biz and Dong-A Business Review. He appeared in several TV programs including ‘My Little Television’, ‘Radio Star’ of MBC, and ‘The Secret Readers Club’ of TVN as well.
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