[This Week's Books] 'Sarajyeo Ganeun Eumsikdeul' and 5 More Titles

◆Disappearing Foods=From Turkey's golden wheat to Korea's natural monument Ogye, with its black bones, numerous foods that have accompanied humanity for a long time are at risk of disappearing. The author, a BBC journalist and food writer, introduces stories of foods he has seen, heard, and tasted around the world, along with their related history, politics, culture, community, and flavors. He shares tales such as the Hadza people of East Africa who find beehives hidden in baobab tree branches and use smoke to subdue bees and harvest honey, and how humans survived around 160,000 years ago by eating clams and oysters during a population decline caused by a climate crisis. The book contains stories about grains, vegetables, seafood, meat, and desserts that have accompanied humanity in various ways. (Written by Dan Saladino · Gimm-Young Publishers)

◆Ridgway's Korean War=73 years ago, during the heat of the war, the South Korean army retreated to Busan under pressure from the North Korean People's Army but managed to defend the homeland by reversing the tide with the U.S. military's Incheon Landing Operation. General MacArthur, the well-known commander of the United Nations forces at the time, was the key figure in the Incheon Landing. However, General Ridgway, who succeeded him as commander of the UN forces, is relatively unfamiliar to the public. This book focuses on him. Appointed in April 1951 by President Truman as the successor to General MacArthur, Ridgway served as the UN Commander and Far East Commander. The book describes how he recovered the front line to the current armistice line against the Chinese People's Volunteer Army's offensive, managed prisoners of war, and negotiated the armistice to prevent communist unification. (Matthew B. Ridgway · Planet Media)

◆Feeling Great=The author introduces cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) content he has researched over 40 years related to depression and anxiety. He presents over 50 techniques that lead changes in 'thoughts' to changes in 'emotions.' The core of representative CBT techniques such as 'positive reframing' and the 'magic dial' is to resolve patient resistance. The focus is on the reason for the 'resistance' where those suffering from depression and anxiety desperately want treatment but are actually fixated on their conditions and refuse therapy. The book reveals that patients' fixation on depression and anxiety is a psychological mechanism to protect their positive qualities and offers self-treatment methods that can be applied without professional help. (Written by David Burns · Munye Publishing)

◆The Ultimate Brain Hacking=The author struggled with learning difficulties as a child, even finding reading difficult, but overcame them and graduated from Harvard and MIT. Choosing the path of a neuroscientist, he sought answers to the question, "How can we upgrade the brain?" Over ten years, through hundreds of research papers, expert interviews, and self-experiments, he recorded and organized effective ways to change the brain. He concluded that by changing small daily habits such as medication, exercise, gaming, meditation, and diet, anyone can become the 'true' owner of their brain. The book is structured as comparative experiments, for example, which is better for enhancing 'executive function,' exposure to blue light or caffeine intake. (Written by Elizabeth Ricker · Business Books)

◆The Story Architect=World-renowned story consultant Lisa Cron points out that many writers "write without knowing what a story really is." People often mistake the outwardly visible plot for the story, but she emphasizes that the true story is the 'inner story' that fills the content, not the surface. Having worked with famous publishers, broadcasters, and Hollywood's largest film studios, the author begins the book by correcting misconceptions about stories. She then introduces story design methods applicable across genres and explains the process of turning ideas into stories through the creation of 'story scene cards.' Writer Jang Kang-myung described it as "a book like a senior surgeon precisely telling an intern entering the operating room where to make the incision." (Written by Lisa Cron · Bookie)

◆There Are Reasons Why Businesses Fail=Management mistakes exist in every company, regardless of size. Even globally successful companies like Tesla, Sony, Toyota, Nokia, Costco, and Burberry suffer significant business setbacks due to management errors. The two authors analyze cases of unsustainable businesses through the concept of four mirrors that reveal business mistakes. They share stories based on real cases, such as why McDonald's focused more on selling fries and cola than hamburgers, and why CJ CheilJedang switched beef raw materials to chicken when entering China, illustrating mistakes that deviated from core management and how corrections created opportunities. (Lee Hong and one other · Samsung Global Research)

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