Proof techniques in cryptography are very difficult to understand, even for students or researchers who major in cryptography. In addition, in contrast to the excessive emphases on the security proofs of the cryptographic schemes, practical aspects of them have received comparatively less attention. This book addresses these two issues by providing detailed, structured proofs and demonstrating examples, applications and implementations of the schemes, so that students and practitioners may...

**“Enchanting . . . the most surprising, confounding, and oddly insightful couple’s trip in recent literary history.” —Entertainment WeeklyThe prize-winning, bestselling author of Gingerbread; Boy, Snow, Bird; and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours returns with a vivid and inventive new novel about a couple forever changed by an unusual train voyage.**When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleepe...

In this sly and dazzling contemporary fantasy, the most notorious nine-tailed fox in Korea pairs up with a trickster god–turned–detective to track down a wrathful demon . . . before it can destroy the mortal world.“Enchanting fantasy . . . With an intoxicating mix of action, mystery, and deliciously angsty romance, this reads like the most bingeable K-drama.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)Kim Hani has retired from a life of dev...

A landmark history of North Korea, told through the rise of the Kim dynasty and its surprising ties to American Christianity—a spectacular, penetrating account of the Hermit Kingdom • A Foreign Policy Most Anticipated Book of 2026For nearly eight decades, North Korea has marched defiantly to its own beat, shaking off its Soviet and Chinese sponsors to emerge as the world’s most enigmatic nation—a nuclear-armed state ruled by a dictatorial dynasty. Underpin...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Inspired by true stories from the authors’ grandparents’ lives during one of the darkest periods in Korean history, The Last Tiger is a debut young adult fantasy novel about the power of love to give voice to a broken people.In a colonized land where tigers are being hunted to extinction and ancient magic stirs, two star-crossed teens—Lee Seung, a servant yearning for freedom, and Choi Eunji, a noble girl defyin...

“Vivid . . . These stories, in which class divisions form impassable rifts and submission to the status quo comes at great psychic cost, have much to say about our contemporary reality." —The New York Times Book Review**“What a gift to have these stories translated, finally, into English!” —Ari Aster, director of Midsommar and HereditaryThe first story collection published in English by Lee Chang-dong, one of South Korea’s most ce...

**Winner of the 2024 NYPL Young Lions Fiction AwardFinalist for the 2024 Washington State Book Award and the 2025 PNBA Book Award“Spare, beautiful and richly layered, The Liberators is dazzling.”―Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage“A piercing, patient debut by one of our finest chroniclers of American han. You won't know what hit you until the final, perfect image.”―Ed Park, author of Same Bed Different Dreams**Daejeo...

A former journalist turned stay-at-home mother must find her missing husband and protect her children in Excavations, a “sharp, impressive debut about corruption among South Korea’s elite” (The Boston Globe).A PHENOMENAL BOOK CLUB PICK • A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AND CRIMEREADS BEST BOOK OF THE YEARSae is waiting with two clingy toddlers for her husband to come home from work when she learns of a horrific disas...

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken comes a story in her My Summer in Seoul series…Make it or break it...Or maybe just break them?Ai-Ri has been training under YK Management in Korea for two years without any results. She doesn’t fit the typical mold for a successful K-POP idol image, literally down to her blood type. She has six more months before college entrance exams which means she only has six months to make ...

**A “provocative and sweeping” (Time) blend of family history and original reportage that explores—and reimagines—Asian American identity in a Black and white world“[Kang’s] exploration of class and identity among Asian Americans will be talked about for years to come.”—Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times Book ReviewONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, NPR, Mother Jones**In 1965, a new immigration law lifted a century of restrictions a...

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken comes a story in her My Summer in Seoul series…Make it or break it...Or maybe just break them?Ai-Ri has been training under YK Management in Korea for two years without any results. She doesn’t fit the typical mold for a successful K-POP idol image, literally down to her blood type. She has six more months before college entrance exams which means she only has six months to make ...

Peaces is the story of Otto and Xavier Shin, a couple who embark on a mysterious train journey that takes them far beyond any destination they could have anticipated. As they roll along, Otto and Xavier discover that each carriage is more curious and fascinating than the last, becoming embroiled in intrigue aboard this strange train. Who is Ava Kapoor, the sole full-time inhabitant of the train, and what is her relationship to a man named Přem? Are they passengers or prisoners? We discover...