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A splashy & very complimentary review in the New York Times on Monday has drawn a lot of attention to Michael Chwe's new book from Princeton University Press: Jane Austen, Game Theorist:

It’s not every day that someone stumbles upon a major new strategic thinker during family movie night. But that’s what happened to Michael Chwe, an associate professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, when he sat down with his children some eight years ago to watch “Clueless,” the 1995 romantic comedy based on Jane Austen’s “Emma.”

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Mr. Chwe set to doing his English homework, and now his assignment is in. “Jane Austen, Game Theorist,” just published by Princeton University Press, is more than the larky scholarly equivalent of “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.” In 230 diagram-heavy pages, Mr. Chwe argues that Austen isn’t merely fodder for game-theoretical analysis, but an unacknowledged founderof the discipline itself: a kind of Empire-waisted version of the mathematician and cold war thinker John von Neumann, ruthlessly breaking down the stratagems of 18th-century social warfare.

Recent tweets about the book:

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Jane Austen, Game Theorist
Michael Chwe
Princeton University Press | 9780691155760 | $35.00 | April 2013

More, elsewhere:

Michael Chwe: book page | twitter

Princeton University Press: book page | web | twitter

(Cross-posted at www.my3books.com – 04/24/13)

UPDATE: More changes at Bloomsbury Academic: last month, they also announced the purchase of Applied Visual Arts Publishing - to be integrated into Bloomsbury Academic closer to the end of 2012.

Little White Duck: A Childhood in China
story by Na Liu & Andrés Vera Martínez
illustrated by Andrés Vera Martínez
Lerner / Graphic Universe | 9780761381150 | $9.95 | Oct 2012

It's a terrific graphic memoir, based directly on the memories of author Na Liu, one of two sisters growing up in China in the mid to late 1970s.

It has already received a starred review from Kirkus.

Click through to read more.

We're excited to be participating in this year's 2012 Heartland Fall Forum - the first ever joint regional booksellers association trade show, bringing together the booksellers from both the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association and the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association!

Many of our publishers will be joining us, and many will have their best new fall releases available for you to check out. We'll see you at The Depot in Minneapolis, MN from October 3 through 5, 2012!

This has been floating around the internet for a few weeks now, but I was reminded to post it here since I just started a fresh Moleskine for my autumnal to-do list, and it's one of the new limited edition Star Wars journals.

A Monster Calls
by Patrick Ness, inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd
illustrated by Jim Kay
Candlewick Press | 9780763655594 | $16.99 | Sept 2011

I wrote about A Monster Calls in a preview post on my3books.com earlier this year, shortly after I first read it. It's still one of the fall books that comes back to me most powerfully when I tell others about it:

The two authors have created a novel that shares the hallmarks of both their best works: the story goes in directions that are simply not anticipated, and the tidal pull of emotion that hits the reader by the end is out of all proportion to what should be possible.

From the Candlewick Press web site:

At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn’t the monster Conor’s been expecting – he’s been expecting the one from his nightmare, the nightmare he’s had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments. The monster in his backyard is different. It’s ancient. And wild. And it wants something from Conor. Something terrible and dangerous. It wants the truth. From the final idea of award-winning author Siobhan Dowd-- whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself-- Patrick Ness has spun a haunting and darkly funny novel of mischief, loss, and monsters both real and imagined.