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White Heat is pure adrenaline—a thrilling exploration of extreme skiing that pushes the reader over the edge with heart-pounding accounts of people who risk their lives on the fastest, steepest slopes.

Often obsessed and possibly crazy, extreme skiers and snowboarders are having the time of their lives facing death-defying challenges. But the extreme skiing life isn't just about the quest to finish first; it's a lifestyle made up of insane jumps, bone-breaking speeds, and world records—not to mention the wild off-mountain social world, the flamboyant gear and slang completely unique to it, and, of course, the remarkable history of the racing champions and events that is its backdrop.

Wayne Johnson, former competitive skier and acclaimed novelist, takes us into the cult of extreme skiing populated by stars such as one-eyed jumping champion Jerry Martin, who held the North American distance record for more than a decade, and Vinko Bogataj, whose world-famous wipeout on ABC's Wide World of Sports gave rise to the expression “pulling a Vinko.” Here are real-life adventures, everything from Shane McConkey ski BASE jumping the Eiger in Switzerland to Shawn White, the Flying Tomato, throwing 1260s in the halfpipe. Johnson, who has spent a lifetime on the mountains, also puts you in his boots when recounting goose-bump- inducing tales of high-speed downhill racing, Nordic jumping competitions, avalanche control, and the hip, ripping world of snowboarding.

If you've ever wondered what kind of nut would willingly choose to fly off a twenty-story ski jump, or have ever dreamed of living outside the usual boundaries, or just like to read about people having life-expanding adventures, then White Heat is an exhilarating thrill ride that will leave you breathless.

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• Published on: 2007-12-04
• Released on: 2007-12-04
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About the Author
Wayne Johnson is the acclaimed author of five novels and a longtime faculty member of the Iowa Summer Writing Program. Growing up in Minnesota, he competed in skiing events such as Nordic jumping and downhill racing from an early age. At various points, he has been everything from a researcher of plant genetics, an auto and motorcycle mechanic, a mountain road surveyor, and a logging operation choke setter for the U.S. Forest Service in Montana, to a ski instructor in Sun Valley, Idaho, and Bozeman, Montana. With his wife, Karen, Johnson currently resides in Park City, Utah, where he does emergency outdoor rescue work for the National Ski Patrol.

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Avalanche Control
On Duty With Dynamite Girl

It is shortly before 6:00 a.m., and you are sitting in the Park City Summit Patrol hut, waiting for Jackie, the Dynamite Girl.

All you've been told is, you won't forget her, which is really no help, you think, given the skiers crossing the hut are wearing bulky red and black Patrol outfits, gear festooned all over those outfits, rope, carabiners, first-aid tape, Pieps, shovels, and, on their backs, packs stuffed with yet more gear to near bursting. You settle in on the bench against the wall, angling your recently blown-out ski boots -- which, already, have begun to torment your feet again -- toward the fireplace, warming them.

Here at Summit the hut is the size of a lodge, really, and is a swarm of morning activity. There's been a heavy snowfall, over three feet, a stiff wind from the south, and, being an unseasonably warm January, the temperature over the week has risen above and fallen below freezing umpteen times, creating sheets of snow in varying layers of density and composition. It has even rained briefly.

Perfect conditions for avalanches.

"You my Dynamite Donkey?" a tall, blond woman says, strutting in your direction, her face the kind you see in television ads, those making even lawn chairs or white bread seem sexy.

"Jackie?" you ask, not getting what she's just said, having been...distracted. Dynamite Donkey?

"Are you my shadow?" she says, in a cutting voice, as though you might be a little deaf, or, perhaps of diminished mental capacity (which is presently true), and something clicks in your head: Right, you're here to shadow an expert on an avalanche route after your Blaster's Clinic. You're glad now that even though you only got four hours of sleep, you stayed up to read the Patrol text on avalanche rescues, all that swimming to the frontal lobes of your brain, which you haven't been using for the last good ten seconds, watching --

"Jackovitch," she says, "but call me Jackie," you standing to shake her hand, thinking, Oh, I get it, but she's already moving away from you, and you follow her, admiring, from the back, that leonine strut of hers.

What a...character, you're thinking. And you're not wrong about that, either.

***

"This is the part I like," Jackie says, in the basement of the hut, a pile of gear at your feet.

"What part is that?"

"Getting out there with the explosives."

You've had to go through about a gazillion safety measures to be on for this gig (including a full FBI security check), and now Jackie is rigging a pack around your back, in it eight, two-pound pentolite charges, each equivalent to a stick of dynamite.

You feel bloated, all that firepower sitting right over your kidneys -- even a little anxious. Could all of that explosive...kind of...just...go off somehow? (And what would you look like if it did?)

"Can't be short," she says, lifting four more charges. She gets three of them in the pack -- twenty-two pounds now of explosive, on top of everything that's already jammed in there -- hefting the last charge in her hand.

"Well?" you say.

"I like throwing these things," she tells you, something suggestive and warning in it, her eyes lighting up. Teasing.

She motions for you to turn again, and while she's getting that last charge in your pack, you don't feel so much like a donkey, but a camel -- the proverbial one broken by that last straw.

Jackie starts hanging and clipping yet more things on you. First, a belt with a plastic gadget the size of a fist on it, your avalanche beacon, state of the art and the new frequency, 457 kHz, the international standard.

"Never use recharged batteries on a beacon," Jackie tells you. Why, you ask.

"They'll test fine and then they'll drop dead on the mountain." Jackie takes a step back from you. "What's wrong with it?"

You crane your head down to check out the belt, which is clipped roughly over your navel. "Wrong with what?"

Jackie sighs, gives you a sharp rap alongside the head, as if this is her idea of some joke.

"Knot the belt, so if you get involved, your beacon won't get torn off." She gives you a level look. Involved? "One guy got dug out," she said, "was under for almost thirty minutes. The snowpack pressed so hard on him, when he peed later, it was like root beer. Pressure forced protein from his bloodstream into his kidneys and bladder."

Jackie now hangs a short-handled shovel to your pack and bungies it in place. The aluminum blade upright, "so the metal won't interfere with the beacon's signal, if you're caught and tumbled under." Then avalanche probes, like tent poles, for finding victims. A snow saw. A forty-foot length of nylon rope. And last, she hands you a "crystal card" on a lanyard, which she tells you to hang from your neck. The "card" is really a thick, clear-plastic device with gadgets in it for measuring snow crystal size and types, and for gauging slope angles.

She winks at you, says, "Enough gear there?"

You flex your knees, give yourself a little shake. Were you just to, say, try this stuff on and stand in a nice, clean, temperaturecontrolled environment like this one, why, it would still feel ungainly, because...

You're also carrying, in addition to the twenty-four pounds of explosive, a two-way radio on a chest harness; carabiners, spring- locking and screw-locking, which hang from your beacon belt; in your fanny pack, you've got first-aid tape, gauze, triangular bandages, six blood stoppers, glucose, a multifunction pliers/cutter, latex gloves, an extra pair of leather gloves for rough work, and plastic airways in three sizes. From your neck are hanging, with the crystal card, your quick reference cards, Park City Helicopter landing sites, a Glasgow Coma Score, vital signs ranges, radio codes, and a quick assessment card.

And add to that what you're wearing, from inside to outside, bottom to top: a pair of wicking Cascade socks; a Duofold union suit (wicking and two-layered, cotton against the skin, wool off, and in one piece so snow will never get down your backside and onto bare skin); Mountain Hardwear ski pants made of doublestrength Gore-Tex; a wicking Cascade turtleneck shirt, a wool U.S. Olympic Team sweater you got from a friend nearly thirty years ago (which is a talisman for good luck), a Mountain Hardwear vest, and a Mountain Hardwear double-lined ski jacket. And strapped over that, over your shoulders, is your sixteen-pocket Olympic three-quarters pack. Cocooning your hands are Cascade double-lined gloves.

On your head is the (required) Park City Patrol hat (wicking wool), and over that a pair of battery-powered, fan-driven Smith goggles (antifogging).

On your feet are Tecnica Diablos -- racing boots that, off skis, are so rigid even with the upper cuffs unbuckled, that they make you walk like Frankenstein's monster. You are tempted to do that now, as Jackie, of the oiled hips, marches out the hut door with her mountaineering skis to the waiting snowcats.

Avalanche control workers, almost without exception, use skis, Alpine or mountaineering, as they need to climb and maneuver in their gear, something not possible on snowboards, given the rider's feet are fixed to a single surface.

RRRRR. RRRRRR, you growl behind Jackie, lifting your arms like some sleepwalker, or like Boris Karloff, laughing to yourself. (You've been a cutup all your life, this gag track running through your life, unstoppable -- a good portion of the time -- and you just have to live with it.)

Outside, though, you do stop all that.

"Oh, baby," you say, in it a kind of total dread, but with it...excitement.

And it has nothing to do with Jackie. "Come on," she says and, with an eagerness beyond explanation, you follow her out into the blizzard, to stand a block from the hut, taking it in.

A damn near, bona fide whiteout.

The mountains, in all that snow, are phantasmagorical blue-black and white teeth.

Standing just behind Jackie, the snow burning your face, you hear a sound in the distance not unlike what someone would make leaping face down onto a feather bed. A whoooomphf!

(And that's where that dreading part of you wants to be: back in bed, the sun not even up yet.)

"Avalanche, and no skier trigger," Jackie says, grinning. "It's gonna be a big day."

A big day?

And this is just for starters, recognizing the danger inherent in avalanche conditions.

Realize that avalanches in the United States alone kill on the average twenty-eight people a year. In the 2002-2003 season, in the United States, avalanches killed fifty-eight people: five climbers; twenty-five backcountry skiers; four snowboarders; twenty-three snowmobilers; and one hiker. Figures such as these, though, become even more significant when one works in a continental or transitional climate, such as that in Idaho, Colorado, or Utah, where most fatal avalanches occur.

Here they become a real and present danger that must be dealt with.

In Utah, in 2005, for example, eight people were killed in avalanches, among them, in the Salt Lake City area, twenty-three-year-old Zachary Eastman, thirty-seven-year-old Melvin Denis, and the snowboarder your life will become indelibly connected to on this avalanche training day, twenty-seven-year-old Shane Maixner, caught in an avalanche at the Canyons.

It was feared, initially, that as many as fifteen skiers and snowboarders were caught in the Canyons avalanche, the most deadly kind, a "slab avalanche," where a sheet breaks off from the slope underneath and hurls down the slope, in seconds the "slab" reaching speeds of 60 to 80 miles per hour, and sometimes, where not impeded, speeds as high as 120 miles per hour.

If you are standing off to the side of such an avalanche, the very compressed air generated from it can knock you off your feet.

When the snowpack col...

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
A Tour De Force
By Clifton Tool
This wonderful book addresses the lives and life surrounding the extreme aspects of skiing (avalanche controllers, racers, ski jumpers, snowboarders, mountain patrollers, and a sundry feast of other characters), and readers will find it an inspiring and lucid examination of just what drives people to such extremes, be it a love of speed or heights or jumping off helicopters. Wayne Johnson has delved deep into the hearts of those who aren't content to live out their lives in a prescribed, socially acceptable manner, and he's written a fine book honoring the idiosyncrasies of their lives. It is a thrilling account, and the narrative is written as daringly as the lives it examines. You don't have to love skiing to enjoy this book --it's entertaining as hell and you'll be hard pressed to find any writer out there with the massive talent Mr. Johnson brings to his subject. Odds are that when you get to the end of the book you'll do as I did: you'll go back to page one and start reading it again.

Regarding an earlier review, in which the reviewer claims the book suffers from "enormous stylistic flaws," one has to wonder what planet he lives on (I laughed out loud at the absurdity of the statement). He has a problem with Johnson's use of second person narration, a perfectly valid and effective technique used by countless writers and essayist throughout history. I would direct the reviewer to the likes of Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Faulkner, Samuel Beckett, Gunter Grass, Italo Calvino,, Jay McInerney, Carlos Fuentes, John Updike, and many, many other gifted writers. One wonders if the reviewer would have been more pleased if the book had been written in an uptight, faux scientific manner, complete with footnotes and a good dose of pretentious Latin terminology. (Thankfully, author Wayne Johnson has spared us that scenario). In fact, by its tone and tenor (petty, plebeian), one wonders if this profoundly uptight reviewer was passed one too many times by Mr. Johnson on the ski hill.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Ok the grammer stinks but it is a fun read
By Baja James
The first reviewer is right the writting is not world class but the book is fun. It is good ski porn/mind candy. Not a classic. So keep that in mind.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A taste of the ski life
By Amazon Customer
An excellent read giving a glimpse at ski culture. I have been a ski patroller in the Midwest for over twenty years, doing it full time for the last seven years. I know patrollers that drive three hours to volunteer to patrol or drive all night to allow their children to race in the Upper Pennisula, MI.

To the best of my knowledge I have never met the author but I have skied Park City, The Canyons, Alta and other areas. I have stood in the patrol hut at the top of Jupiter lift with twenty five other patrollers performing an avalanche rescue drill on West Face. Getting from the hut to the avalanche site meant skiing the ridge in a sixty mile per hour whiteout.

The author accurately portrays the thought processes on rescues and opening and closing sweeps.
The author also gives a good representation of the various aspect of other snowsports including racing and snowboarding.

The author fails to inform the reader of the many mundane actions a patroller performs including the paperwork after the care for the injured has been transferred. Each incident requires an incident report and usually an investigation. While not part of the glamour and adrenaline, it is a vital part of the incident follow-up.

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Sketch City: Tips and Inspiration for Drawing on Location is the perfect companion for any creative traveler, urban explorer, or budding artist. 50 artists scattered around the globe have been brought together to share tips about their favorite urban settings, including locations in South America, Europe, Canada, Asia, and beyond. Citified sketchers will be guided through techniques for capturing frenetic street scenes as well as the rare moments of peace found in metropolitan centers with the aid of sections that include basic sketching knowledge, architecture and landscape sketching, common tools and materials, and FAQs about landscape sketching. In addition to this practical knowledge, artists profiles featuring samples of their work, descriptions of their methods, advice on composition and proper material use, and philosophical views on the art of urban sketching provide ample encouragement to inspire any artist to take to the streets.

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This guide makes a strong case for urban dwellers and city tourists to draw their environments, positing that the practice sharpens perception and imparts more personal emotion than digital snapshots could. Quick sketches done on the street can lead to more elaborate paintings completed in the studio or stand as works of art in their own right. This book is here to help readers discover the opportunities and challenges inherent in attempting to draw by hand the interactions of architecture, humans, and the urban landscape. The work of 25 artists from cities around the world is showcased, with many fine examples created by each one. The artists' own tips are provided, as are text explanations of techniques and processes. Featured sketches are diagramed and detail views further clarify the processes. Color and architecture are emphasized most in the examples. VERDICTInspiration for any visually creative person, whether they live in a city or only visit. --Library Journal

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[[VIDEOID:26c69b89ac82be3cb9111cb45fd291d9]]Sketch City is yet another book related to urban sketching or location sketching. They have been quite a lot of these within the last few years. Print quality for this is good as they used thick semi-gloss paper. The book is big and the artworks printed within are satisfying big as well.

Collected within this 224-page paperback are the sketches and drawing tips from 25 artists over the world. I've a lot of such books and this is an welcome addition to my collection because I only know 2 out of the 25 artists included. That by itself makes this a really worthwhile purchase for me.

After a 8-page introduction to location sketching and the tools, it features the galleries of 25 artists.

Each artist has several pieces of their sketches featured together with description and a short drawing tip. The tools and materials they used are also listed.

It's wonderful to see the beautiful sketches from all the different places in the world. Each artist has a lovely style and some of them are really good. This book will serve as a nice source of inspiration.

There are a few publishers for this book, namely CYPI Press, Gingko Press and Basheer Graphic Books. CYPI and Gingko should be distributing for USA and Europe. Basheer is distributing for Asia. The price of the book is going to different depending on where and who you buy it from.

If you like this book, check out all the other urban sketching books I've featured in the past. The book that's most similar to this is The Art of Urban Sketching.

Highly recommended to those who love sketching.

The list of artists included are

Corrado Parrini
Febvre Georges
Angelo Rodrigues
Isa Fischer
Wim Van De Wege
Simon Holzman
Yves Damin
Fabio Barilari
Guy Moll
Natalija Nikolceva
Arno Hartmann
Moo Hyun Chung
Hisham Salmin
Sigrid Albert
Dai Owen
Jacek Krenz
Tony Belobrajdic
Josiah Hanchett
Trevor Dickinson
Sofia Pereira
Benedetta Dossi
Francine Bidal-St-Aubin
Roger De Muth
Mieke van der Merwe
Choo Meng Foo

(See more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)

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Inspirational Guide to Seeing & Sketching
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Inspirational! If you like to draw, want to improve your drawing skills or just get inspired to draw nore, thos is a great place to start! Yes, it is focused on urban sketching, but it offers so much more. Great comments from the selected artists about their own works, great range of styles. I wish I had bought it BEFORE I spent a month sketching in Germany!

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Fresh, imaginative, and simple
By Alison Sigmon
Fresh, imaginative. I love this book as an inspirational resource for writing and design.

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I am the star of screaming headlines and campfire ghost stories.�I am one of the four Black-Eyed Susans.�The lucky one.

As a sixteen-year-old, Tessa Cartwright was found in a Texas field, barely alive amid a scattering of bones, with only fragments of memory as to how she got there. Ever since, the press has pursued her as the lone surviving “Black-Eyed Susan,” the nickname given to the murder victims because of the yellow carpet of wildflowers that flourished above their shared grave. Tessa’s testimony about those tragic hours put a man on death row.

Now, almost two decades later, Tessa is an artist and single mother. In the desolate cold of February, she is shocked to discover a freshly planted patch of black-eyed susans—a summertime bloom—just outside her bedroom window. Terrified at the implications—that she sent the wrong man to prison and the real killer remains at large—Tessa turns to the lawyers working to exonerate the man awaiting execution. But the flowers alone are not proof enough, and the forensic investigation of the still-unidentified bones is progressing too slowly. An innocent life hangs in the balance. The legal team appeals to Tessa to undergo hypnosis to retrieve lost memories—and to share the drawings she produced as part of an experimental therapy shortly after her rescue.

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Shocking, intense, and utterly original, Black-Eyed Susans is a dazzling psychological thriller, seamlessly weaving past and present in a searing tale of a young woman whose harrowing memories remain in a field of flowers—as a killer makes a chilling return to his garden.

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“Deliciously twisty and eerie, Heaberlin’s third psychological suspense novel is intricately layered and instantly compelling.”—Library Journal (starred review)

“Brilliant . . . a breakout book.”—Fort Worth Star-Telegram

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• Brand: Heaberlin, Julia
• Published on: 2015-08-11
• Released on: 2015-08-11
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: 9.50" h x 1.10" w x 6.40" l, 1.24 pounds
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“A masterful thriller that shouldn’t be missed . . . brilliantly conceived, beautifully executed . . . Both as a portrait of modern, urban Texas, and in terms of suspense, characterizations and storytelling, Black-Eyed Susans is outstanding. . . . The answers are as astonishing as they are finally believable. [Julia] Heaberlin’s work calls to mind that of Gillian Flynn. Both writers published impressive early novels that were largely overlooked, and then one that couldn’t be: Flynn’s Gone Girl and now Heaberlin’s Black-Eyed Susans. Don’t miss it.”—The Washington Post
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“Deliciously twisty and eerie, Heaberlin’s third psychological suspense novel is intricately layered and instantly compelling.”—Library Journal (starred review)
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“A breakout book . . . Heaberlin maintains her tight grip on narrative control, expertly maintaining the delightful, nail-biting suspense. . . . It’s her emerging talent as a masterful storyteller that sets this book apart.”—Fort Worth Star-Telegram

“Heaberlin does a neat job, in Black-Eyed Susans, of making us care. . . . [She’s] a pro who strengthens her theme of judicial prejudice by referring to the O.J. Simpson trial and by drawing our attention to the morbid regularity of executions in Texas prisons.”—The New York Times Book Review

“A terrific plot, matched by the quality of the writing and superbly paced tension.”—The Times (U.K.)
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“Perfect for readers looking for something to pick up after The Girl on the Train.”—LibraryReads (Top Ten Pick)
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“Gripping . . . The suspense builds as Tessie uncovers devastating secrets from the past en route to the shocking ending.”—Publishers Weekly
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“If readers looking for the next Gone Girl do pick it up, I guarantee they won’t put it down. Because the story . . . is a classic page-turner.”—D Magazine
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“A twisted tale of how evil makes its mark, Black-Eyed Susans winds a net around the reader, shifting time, perspective, and events until the only sure thing is the pulsing question at the heart of this novel: What happens when a ruthless predator leaves one of his victims alive?”—Jenny Milchman, author of Cover of Snow
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About the Author
Julia Heaberlin is the author of Black-Eyed Susans, Lie Still, and Playing Dead. She is an award-winning journalist who has worked at the Fort-Worth Star Telegram, The Detroit News, and The Dallas Morning News. She grew up in Texas and lives with her family near Dallas/Fort Worth, where she is at work on her next novel of psychological suspense.

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Tessa, present day

For better or worse, I am walking the crooked path to my childhood.

The house sits topsy-�turvy on the crest of a hill, like a kid built it out of blocks and toilet paper rolls. The chimney tilts in a comical direction, and turrets shoot off each side like missiles about to take off. I used to sleep inside one of them on summer nights and pretend I was rocketing through space.

More than my little brother liked, I had climbed out one of the windows onto the tiled roof and inched my scrappy knees toward the widow’s peak, grabbing sharp gargoyle ears and window ledges for balance. At the top, I leaned against the curlicued railing to survey the flat, endless Texas landscape and the stars of my kingdom. I played my piccolo to the night birds. The air rustled my thin white cotton nightgown like I was a strange dove alit on the top of a castle. It sounds like a fairy tale, and it was.

My grandfather made his home in this crazy storybook house in the country, but he built it for my brother, Bobby, and me. It wasn’t a huge place, but I still have no idea how he could afford it. He presented each of us with a turret, a place where we could hide out from the world whenever we wanted to sneak away. It was his grand gesture, our personal Disney World, to make up for the fact that our mother had died.

Granny tried to get rid of the place shortly after Granddaddy died, but the house didn’t sell till years later, when she was lying in the ground between him and their daughter. Nobody wanted it. It was weird, people said. Cursed. Their ugly words made it so.

After I was found, the house had been pasted in all the papers, all over TV. The local newspapers dubbed it Grim’s Castle. I never knew if that was a typo. Texans spell things different. For instance, we don’t always add the ly.

People whispered that my grandfather must have had something to do with my disappearance, with the murder of all the Black-�Eyed Susans, because of his freaky house. “Shades of Michael Jackson and his Neverland Ranch,” they muttered, even after the state sent a man to Death Row a little over a year later for the crimes. These were the same people who had driven up to the front door every Christmas so their kids could gawk at the lit-�up gingerbread house and grab a candy cane from the basket on the front porch.

I press the bell. It no longer plays Ride of the Valkyries. I don’t know what to expect, so I am a little surprised when the older couple that open the door look perfectly suited to living here. The plump worn-�down hausfrau with the kerchief on her head, the sharp nose, and the dust rag in her hand reminds me of the old woman in the shoe.

I stutter out my request. There’s an immediate glint of recognition by the woman, a slight softening of her mouth. She locates the small crescent-�moon scar under my eye. The woman’s eyes say poor little girl, even though it’s been eighteen years, and I now have a girl of my own.

“I’m Bessie Wermuth,” she says. “And this is my husband, Herb. Come in, dear.” Herb is scowling and leaning on his cane. Suspicious, I can tell. I don’t blame him. I am a stranger, even though he knows exactly who I am. Everyone in a five-�hundred-�mile radius does. I am the Cartwright girl, dumped once upon a time with a strangled college student and a stack of human bones out past Highway 10, in an abandoned patch of field near the Jenkins property.

I am the star of screaming tabloid headlines and campfire ghost stories.

I am one of the four Black-�Eyed Susans. The lucky one.

It will only take a few minutes, I promise. Mr. Wermuth frowns, but Mrs. Wermuth says, Yes, of course. It is clear that she makes the decisions about all of the important things, like the height of the grass and what to do with a redheaded, kissed-�by-�evil waif on their doorstep, asking to be let in.

“We won’t be able to go down there with you,” the man grumbles as he opens the door wider.

“Neither of us have been down there too much since we moved in,” Mrs. Wermuth says hurriedly. “Maybe once a year. It’s damp. And there’s a broken step. A busted hip could do either of us in. Break one little thing at this age, and you’re at the Pearly Gates in thirty days or less. If you don’t want to die, don’t step foot inside a hospital after you turn sixty-�five.”

As she makes this grim pronouncement, I am frozen in the great room, flooded with memories, searching for things no longer there. The totem pole that Bobby and I sawed and carved one summer, completely unsupervised, with only one trip to the emergency room. Granddaddy’s painting of a tiny mouse riding a handkerchief sailboat in a wicked, boiling ocean.

Now a Thomas Kinkade hangs in its place. The room is home to two flowered couches and a dizzying display of knickknacks, crowded on shelves and tucked in shadow boxes. German beer steins and candlesticks, a Little Women doll set, crystal butterflies and frogs, at least fifty delicately etched English teacups, a porcelain clown with a single black tear rolling down. All of them, I suspect, wondering how in the hell they ended up in the same neighborhood.

The ticking is soothing. Ten antique clocks line one wall, two with twitching cat tails keeping perfect time with each other.

I can understand why Mrs. Wermuth chose our house. In her way, she is one of us.

“Here we go,” she says. I follow her obediently, navigating a passageway that snakes off the living room. I used to be able to take its turns in the pitch dark on my roller skates. She is flipping light switches as we go, and I suddenly feel like I am walking to the chamber of my death.

“TV says the execution is in a couple of months.” I jump. This is exactly where my mind is traveling. The scratchy male voice behind me is Mr. Wermuth’s, full of cigarette smoke.

I pause, swallowing the knot in my throat as I wait for him to ask whether I plan to sit front row and watch my attacker suck in his last breath. Instead, he pats my shoulder awkwardly. “I wouldn’t go. Don’t give him another damn second.”

I am wrong about Herb. It wouldn’t be the first time I’ve been wrong, or the last.

My head knocks into an abrupt curve in the wall because I’m still turned toward Herb. “I’m fine,” I tell Mrs. Wermuth quickly. She lifts her hand but hesitates to touch my stinging cheek, because it is just a little too close to the scar, the permanent mark from a garnet ring dangling off a skeletal finger. A gift from a Susan who didn’t want me to forget her, ever. I push Mrs. Wermuth’s hand away gently. “I forgot that turn was coming up so soon.”

“Crazy damn house,” Herb says under his breath. “What in the hell is wrong with living in St. Pete?” He doesn’t seem to expect an answer. The spot on my cheek begins to complain and my scar echoes, a tiny ping, ping, ping.

The hallway has settled into a straight line. At the end, an ordinary door. Mrs. Wermuth pulls out a skeleton key from her apron pocket and twists it in the lock easily. There used to be twenty-�five of those keys, all exactly the same, which could open any door in the place. An odd bit of practicality from my grandfather.

A chilly draft rushes at us. I smell things both dying and growing. I have my first moment of real doubt since I left home an hour ago. Mrs. Wermuth reaches up and yanks on a piece of kite string dancing above her head. The bare, dusty lightbulb flickers on.

“Take this.” Mr. Wermuth prods me with the small Maglite from his pocket. “I carry it around for reading. You know where the main light switch is?”

“Yes,” I say automatically. “Right at the bottom.”

“Watch the sixteenth step,” Mrs. Wermuth warns. “Some critter chewed a hole in it. I always count when I go down. You take as long as you like. I think I’ll make all of us a cup of tea and you can tell a bit of the history of the house after. We’d both find that fascinating. Right, Herb?” Herb grunts. He’s thinking of driving a little white ball two hundred yards into Florida’s deep blue sea.

I hesitate on the second step, and turn my head, unsure. If anyone shuts this door, I won’t be found for a hundred years. I’ve never had any doubt that death is still eager to catch up with a certain sixteen-�year-�old girl.

Mrs. Wermuth offers a tiny, silly wave. “I hope you find what you are looking for. It must be important.”

If this is an opening, I don’t take it.

I descend noisily, like a kid, jumping over step sixteen. At the bottom, I pull another dangling string, instantly washing the room with a harsh fluorescent glow.

It lights an empty tomb. This used to be a place where things were born, where easels stood with half-�finished paintings, and strange, frightening tools hung on pegboards, where a curtained darkroom off to the side waited to bring photos to life, and dress mannequins held parties in the corners. Bobby and I would swear we had seen them move more than once.

A stack of old chests held ridiculous antique dress-�up hats wrapped in tissue paper and my grandmother’s wedding dress with exactly 3,002 seed pearls and my grandfather’s World War II uniform with the brown spot on the sleeve that Bobby and I were sure was blood. My grandfather was a welder, a farmer, a historian, an artist, an Eagle Scout leader, a morgue photographer, a rifleman, a woodworker, a Republican, a yellow dog Democrat. A poet. He could never make up his mind, which is exactly what people say about me.

He ordered us never to come down here alone, and he never knew we did. But the temptation was too great. We were especially fascinated with a forbidden, dusty black album that held Granddaddy’s crime scene photographs from his brief career with the county morgue. A wide-�eyed housewife with her brains splattered across her linoleum kitchen floor. A drowned, naked judge pulled to shore by his dog.

I stare at the mold greedily traveling up the brick walls on every side. The black lichen flourishing in a large crack zigzagging across the filthy concrete floor.

No one has loved this place since Granddaddy died. I quickly cross over to the far corner, sliding between the wall and the coal furnace that years ago had been abandoned as a bad idea. Something travels lightly across my ankle. A scorpion, a roach. I don’t flinch. Worse things have crawled across my face.

Behind the furnace, it is harder to see. I sweep the light down the wall until I find the grimy brick with the red heart, painted there to fool my brother. He had spied on me one day when I was exploring my options. I run my finger lightly around the edges of the heart three times.

Then I count ten bricks up from the red heart, and five bricks over. Too high for little Bobby to reach. I jam the screwdriver from my pocket into the crumbling mortar, and begin to pry. The first brick topples out, and clatters onto the floor. I work at three other bricks, tugging them out one at a time.

I flash the light into the hole.

Stringy cobwebs, like spin art. At the back, a gray, square lump.

Waiting, for seventeen years, in the crypt I made for it.

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Woman Rescued From Grave Containing Four Victims of Black-Eyed Susan Killer Works Against Time to Identify Real Killer
By Lynne E.
BLACK-EYED SUSANS is a fast-reading suspense novel that relies heavily on flashbacks (my least favorite story-telling method). However, the chapters that alternate between "Tessa, present day" and "Tessie, 1995" make sense here. This novel is the story of the two identities of one Black-Eyed Susan--of the two identities of a woman who survived her burial in the middle of a field of blooming black-and yellow-flowers, in a grave she shared with three other victims of the Black-Eyed Susan killer.

In 1995, the teen-aged Tessie is undergoing psychotherapy in preparation for her testimony against the four Susans' accused murderer and attacker. In the present day, 17 years later, Tessa is no longer sure that the man her testimony convicted at trial is the real killer. On her birthday, someone has planted a bed of black-eyed susan flowers where she can't miss seeing them--for the fourth time since the Black-Eyed Susan killer was arrested, imprisoned, convicted, and condemned to death. The convicted man, who has always maintained his innocence, has now exhausted his appeals and is scheduled to die in a matter of weeks. Thus Tessa has to work against time to reexamine her old memories--Tessie's memories--and determine the identity of the real killer, with the help of two "innocence project" volunteers who have been trying for some time to free the convicted man.

This is a novel of relationships--the relationships between Tessie, her therapist, and Tessie's best friend Lydia; the relationships between Tessa, the innocence project volunteers (an attorney and a forensics expert), and the convicted man; and the relationship between grown-up Tessa and teen-aged Tessie. However, the novel is suspenseful throughout, and has plenty of interesting, unusual plot twists that keep the reader turning the pages. The ending is not totally satisfying, but surprising and unguessable (by me at least). This is a well-written, entertaining mystery/suspense read.

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Deep in the Dark Heart of Texas: the Top Ten Things That Are Great About BLACK-EYED SUSANS
By E. Burian-Mohr
In the third of Julia Heaberlin’s books, BLACK-EYED SUSANS, Heaberlin continues to write a tale of a twisted past, not fully remembered, but always fully affecting the heroine. Tessa Cartwright was a teenager when she was snatched by a psycho and left for dead in a pit with another dead girl (or two) and some bones, covered with black-eyed susans (which is a flower for the botanically non-inclined). She was dubbed one of the Black-Eyed Susans.

Tessa was returned to her home, traumatized, broken, scarred emotionally and physically, but to a loving (if eccentric) family. Throughout her best (and also eccentric) friend Lydia stood by her. Tessa went to therapy with a questionable doctor and was prepared to testify at the trial of the suspect. He was found guilty and sentenced to death.

It is Texas, after all.

But Tessa is not convinced he is the killer, feels guilty that her testimony helped convict him, has spent the intervening years with little reminders, creepy gifts, and all kinds of nasty innuendo, and is struggling to do what is right while simultaneously being terrified.

I couldn’t put it down.

This being said here are the top ten things that are great about BLACK-EYED SUSANS: A NOVEL OF SUSPENSE.

10. Heaberlin captures slices of Texas in each of her books -- the terrain, the people, the food, the families, the houses, the feel that you're someplace else.

9. Though Heaberlin writes female characters that have been traumatized, victimized, and terrorized, she captures their strength, which gives strength to others. There's always the unspoken message that, despite everything, we have strength within us.

8. She has a sense of humor. Sure, horrible things have happened. But life, in so many ways, is funny. There are amusing things to observe. Without laughter, we have darkness.

7. Character, character, character. Heaberlin write great characters. There's the eccentric grandfather, building a house filled with surprises to delight and entertain and pose mystery. There's the aging neighbor lady, slowly losing it, good of heart, in pursuit of her lost diggers. There's Tessa's teenaged daughter, simultaneously belligerent and loving, filled with bravery and frightened like a small child. And of course, there's Tessa, facing her demons.

6. Tessa's best friend Lydia, who vanished once the trial was over, never to surface again, is a fabulous portrait of the teen obsessed with the dark and morbid, collecting bits of horrifying daa, cataloguing Jack the Ripper's conquests, a font of information about skeletal remains and a collector of everything creepy. She's a mystery within the mystery. Our own little Wednesday Addams.

5. Building an emotional arc. The characters grow, engage, have epiphanies, and evolve from there.

4. A realistic mother-daughter relationship. If you've been there, you know. It's not all love and harmony. It's not all "I hate you" and slammed doors. There's a lot in between and Heaberlin has captured that masterfully.

3. Suspense. Holy cow. Fasten your seatbelts. Heaberlin builds and builds suspense, gives you a small break to get your heart rate back to normal, and goes right back to building suspense.

2. I love a story with a totally twisted back-story. This one has it.

1. Heaberlin can write. She turns a beautiful phrase, writes dialogue that rings true, mixes just the right amount of description in with the action, and takes you on a roller coaster read.

I can't wait for her next book.

45 of 49 people found the following review helpful.
"Closure is a myth...but there is value in knowing."
By Denise Crawford
When Tessa Cartwright was 16-years old she was found, barely alive, nearly completely buried -- along with a smattering of bones and the body of a dead teenager in an abandoned field in Texas. In response to the trauma, she has undergone tons of therapy, suffered a conversion reaction (hysterical blindness), and has lost all of her memories of the event. The case went to trial and the man found guilty, Terrell Darcy Goodman, was given the death penalty. Throughout the long ordeal leading up to the court sessions, Tessa's best friend, Lydia, was there by her side for support and encouragement when all of Tessa's other friends deserted her when the sensational story of the "Black -Eyed Susans" hit the papers. The victims were named this because those flowers were covering the hastily dug burial site.

Now, it's 18 years later and Terrell is about to be executed when a lawyer shows up on Tessa's doorstep with an idea that perhaps they have the wrong man. It seems that various forensics experts have taken an intense interest in the case when the bones are examined more closely with the new technology of DNA identification. It seems there were 3 different incomplete sets of bones in the grave with Tessa and the dead girl, Merry. The scientists set about the process of trying to identify the "Susans" as Tessa is forced to try to recall her missing memories. She was never able to identify Terrell as the perpetrator and is hesitant to get involved even as new evidence comes to light.

The narrative shifts back and forth in time from 1995 to present day as Tessa relives the ordeal, her therapy, the interactions with Lydia, and as she tries to work with the attorneys and forensics experts to save Terrell from execution. She is a single mother with a teenaged daughter, Charlie, and is longing to put the whole thing behind her but becomes alarmed when she starts to find little patches of Black-eyed Susans planted in some of her old hangouts. She is convinced that the wrong man is in prison and that the kidnapper is taunting her with these flowers.

Rather than say anymore to spoil the twists or to make it easier to identify the red herrings, I'll say that the story was a fast-paced read that kept me glued to the pages -- so much so that I had to finish it in one sitting. At points the time jumps were jarring and it's important to note the dates at the beginning of the chapters in order not to be confused. When I finished, I actually went back through some of the sections of the book and reread certain parts to see if there were clues I had missed but the author is very careful to give only vague hints and so shall I. The climax (the ID of the killer) is a bit unexpected, and there were a few loose ends that never were answered to my satisfaction, but overall, I enjoyed the book.

The best part of this was the forensic science -- dealing with DNA, bones, and geology (chemical markers), that allowed the "Susans" to be identified and their families notified. It's obvious that the author did a lot of consulting with the experts and I really love that fact accuracy in my fiction. With the popularity of shows on TV such as "Bones" and the books of Kathy Reichs and Patricia Cornwell, I believe there will be a very enthusiastic audience for this novel.

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"I had the good fortune to grow up in a wonderful area of Jerusalem, surrounded by a diverse range of people: Rabbi Meizel, the communist Sala Marcel, my widowed Aunt Hannah, and the intellectual Yaacovson. As far as I'm concerned, the opinion of such people is just as authoritative for making social and economic decisions as the opinion of an expert using a model."

Part memoir, part crash-course in economic theory, this deeply engaging book by one of the world's foremost economists looks at economic ideas through a personal lens. Together with an introduction to some of the central concepts in modern economic thought, Ariel Rubinstein offers some powerful and entertaining reflections on his childhood, family and career. In doing so, he challenges many of the central tenets of game theory, and sheds light on the role economics can play in society at large.

Economic Fables is as thought-provoking for seasoned economists as it is enlightening for newcomers to the field.

• Sales Rank: #631243 in eBooks
• Published on: 2012-05-02
• Released on: 2012-05-02
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About the Author
Ariel Rubinstein is Professor of Economics at Tel Aviv University and Princeton University. His recent publications include Modeling Bounded Rationality (1998), A Course in Game Theory (with M. Osborne, 1994) and Bargaining and Markets (with M. Osborne, 1990).

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A Theoretician's Quarrel with Theory
By DidiEW
Reviewed by Omer Moav in Azure, Autumn 5771 / 2010, no. 42

Ariel Rubinstein has been promoting a rather intriguing thesis for several years now: The academic discipline of economics is of absolutely no value in trying to make sense of reality. Given that Rubinstein himself is a professor of economics, not to mention a recipient of the Israel Prize and numerous other awards for his contributions to the field, we might find his claim surprising. And yet, according to his own testimony, he customarily begins lectures by insisting that, to the best of his knowledge,

There is nothing in economic theory that has anything at all to say about the core of the topic under discussion here. I am not certain that I know what an "option" is. I attempt neither to predict the rate of inflation tomorrow nor the productivity index of industry the day after. Of course, I am aware of the fact that you invited me to speak here because I am a professor of economics who is supposed to know all this; my ignorance indeed embarrasses me.

Listening to this, one might reasonably mistake his words for false modesty. But Rubinstein isn't trying to win over his audience by a show of humility. Rather, he's on the attack. Indeed, after admitting his ignorance in economic matters, he explains,

You will ask why I have come here. Because as an economic theoretician, I wish to make several points about the actual message of economic theory. Specifically, I have some reservations, to say the least, as to the manner in which economic theory is exploited in the public debate about economics.

Such is the tone of Rubinstein's Economic Tales, published in 2009. In many ways, the book reflects its author's winsome character: This is not a dense, humorless tome of the sort academics compose, but rather a highly readable, even amusing work that combines theoretical diagnoses with personal anecdotes. Here is a pleasant yet satisfying intellectual experience--one with the occasional glimpse into Rubinstein's life to boot--alongside jargon-free explanations of game theory, the author's field of expertise. Indeed, it is almost too easy to forget that Rubinstein is in fact drafting an indictment against the science of economics, or more precisely--against the use of the highly influential academic discipline to adorn economists with a halo of professionalism, and to advance policies that are not to his liking. Substantiating this controversial argument is Rubinstein's aim--and one, it soon becomes clear, at which he fails utterly.

Rubinstein opens Economic Tales with a wry description of a university meeting, the subject of which was the possibility of upgrading the degree program in accounting to a status previously reserved for major academic disciplines. Rubinstein, one of the meeting's participants, opposed the idea on the grounds that accounting is not a true academic field. While he does feel a certain affection for the bookkeeping profession--his father was a certified buchhalter--the university's goal, he insisted, is not vocational training but the provision of knowledge that will broaden students' horizons, such as that found in mathematics, biology, philosophy, or linguistics. He concluded with an appeal to his colleagues to "use your independent judgment and respond by a show of hands to the question: Does our study program aspire to academic excellence, or is our rhetoric more Pravda than Pravda?"

It would seem that Rubinstein is of the latter opinion: He believes that a great deal of the academic preoccupation with economics--and not merely the bookkeeping profession--relies on rhetoric that is "more Pravda than Pravda." To prove his point, he cites examples of economic models that are, he claims, mere "legends," or myths. He explains why their assumptions are unreasonable and their results of little relevance for making sense of reality. He mocks economists--the "tellers of tall tales"--who are wracked with guilt on account of having devoted their lives to worthless theoretical sophistry while the world "is facing no lack of serious problems." True, he admits, "the obsession with formal models helps us acquire intuitions about the way things work in real life," but he then adds, "I am fairly certain that if instead of dedicating my adult life to economic models, I would examine it from the perspective of a non-academic profession, I would achieve a no less useful--but far less abstract--understanding."

According to Rubinstein, one of the main reasons for economic theory's detachment from reality lies in its inherent assumption that people are rational creatures. He thus attempts to show, methodically, why this assumption is invalid. Relying on studies of human behavior, he concludes that people simply do not know exactly what they want: Our ability to analyze reality is limited, we are predisposed to error, and our self-control is fairly deficient. Despite Rubinstein's own avowed repulsion of superstitious notions such as the belief in "fate" and supernatural forces, he admits that he, too, is no paragon of rationality. In fact, he takes pride in this fact, and promises to make consciously "problematic" choices in the future, since he is "deterred by the dogmatic spirit manifested by the assumption of rationality in economics."

Rubinstein's attack on the infatuation with models extends even to game theory, a mathematical field that has drawn a great deal of attention even beyond the walls of academia. Here the reader will find particularly interesting the story of Rubinstein's personal acquaintance with John Nash, the schizophrenic genius whose character was immortalized in the film A Beautiful Mind. But Rubinstein is not in the business of myth-making. Quite the opposite; he blames game theory, which aspires to develop models of rational decision making, for encouraging "a false display of usefulness." Although it can provide considerable intellectual entertainment--"pleasant knowledge," as he calls it--its assumptions are no better than its forecasts: They do not withstand the test of reality. One cannot credit game theory with the ability to predict actual behavior, insists Rubinstein. Worse still, he believes that this theory encourages selfish and devious conduct--although he is unable to produce evidence for this suspicion.
Having poked fun at economic theory's excessive reliance on abstract models, Rubinstein turns his critical attention to the teaching of economics, and in particular to the manner in which professors present the principles of the market economy to their students. He presents two introductory lectures, one alongside the other: The first depicts a market economy, and the second, an imaginary "jungle economy." As is widely accepted, the allocation of goods in a market economy is determined in accordance with property rights and the price mechanism. The "jungle economy," on the other hand, does not respect property rights, and brute force replaces Adam Smith's "invisible hand" as a determining factor in the allocation of goods. Rubinstein shows that both models, each in its own way, achieve economic equilibrium as well as an "efficient and stable result." He thus seeks to prove that the overwhelming popularity of the free-market model in economic circles is grounded not in substantial empirical support or discernible normative advantages, but rather in its apparent elegance, which professors reinforce by manipulating theoretical concepts and rhetorical tactics--exercises that, by the same measure of success, would serve the reviled "jungle economy" just as well.

If that were not enough, Rubinstein also accuses economists of imperialism, condemning their increasing tendency to engage in interdisciplinary research and take over domains previously reserved for psychologists, sociologists, linguists, and demographers. Admitting his own compliance with this trend, he refers to a study he conducted together with Jacob Glazer in the field of pragmatics, a branch of linguistics that examines the implication of statements spoken in a conversation. The accepted theory in pragmatics, as formulated by philosopher Paul Grace, is based on the assumption that both the speaker and the listener in a conversation share some interests, which the communication between them is meant to advance. Rubinstein and Glazer focused on those situations in which one individual seeks to persuade another to adopt his opinion or to carry out a specific action. In such instances--and contrary to the principle established by Grace--there is, in fact, a conflict of interest between the parties; under certain circumstances it behooves the listener to refuse the request directed at him. (Rubinstein and Glazer therefore formulated an alternate model of optimal persuasion, which the book does not expound upon.) Ironically, even as their approach demonstrates the benefits of a healthy measure of economic intuition, Rubinstein cautions against the temptation to take his model too seriously, and to draw from it conclusions with implications for other disciplines. "Doing `interdisciplinary work' without a profound understanding of each of the disciplines involved borders on charlatanism," he claims.

In the book's final chapter, Rubinstein presents his social views, and reasserts that economists' ability to contribute to public debate is no better than that of anyone else. He discusses an array of issues that occasionally appear on the public agenda, among them the redistribution of income, immigration policy, and the limitations of privatization. This part of the book is light on theory and heavy on preaching. Rubinstein sharply criticizes the economic logic that allows market forces to act without restraint, and calls for strengthening social solidarity and implementing a welfare policy in keeping with the values of the Jewish state. He lambastes the trend toward privatization, and essentially demands that we turn the clock back to the golden days of an all-powerful public sector. "It now remains for the people of this country to do but one thing: to go against the grain, or, in other words, to nationalize," he declares, adding, "the economists I know do not discuss nationalization. To those of them who seek to be ahead of their time, I would advise shutting down research programs that deal with privatization and commencing the debate over the far more relevant question--what to nationalize, and how."

Admittedly, Rubinstein's book is quite charming, and at times quite thought-provoking, too. But reading Economic Tales, one gets the distinct impression that the author's central premise--that the science of economics has little if any relevance to our attempts to comprehend the world around us--relies on a fairly narrow outlook.
A theoretician of the highest caliber, Rubinstein decries theoretic tendentiousness. Yet, as he readily admits, he himself is drawn to economics, and to mathematics, precisely on account of the beauty of these disciplines' models--and not because of any interest in economic reality. Indeed, while his own field of expertise, game theory, is undeniably elegant, and has succeeded in captivating the popular imagination, its importance to general economic discourse is limited. For contrary to the impression the book provides, the lion's share of professional economic discussion is practical in nature, and puts every model to the grueling test of facts. We should hardly be surprised that Rubinstein dismisses this discussion: By his own admission, he is entirely unversed in basic economic concepts, preferring to focus instead on that small segment of academic research that grants priority to brain teasers and elegant mathematical models over the meticulous analysis of cold, hard data. Nevertheless, if he deems only abstract theories worthy of the term "economics"--an utterly misleading conception of a discipline built mainly on empirical research--why should he bemoan its detachment from reality?

Moreover, it is unclear whether Rubinstein believes that worthwhile research in the social sciences is even possible, or if the flaw he describes is specific to economics and economists. He does not bother to compare accepted standards in his own discipline with routine procedures in other fields, but if he did, I hardly think economics would come out looking worse. Economists, after all, are required to utilize a methodological toolbox no less complex and rigorous in its demands than that of, say, sociologists and political scientists. We are thus forced to choose between two possible conclusions: Either all of the academic knowledge produced in the social sciences amounts to nothing, or Rubinstein's attack on economics is simply unfair.

That it is the latter that must be true is apparent in Rubinstein's assertion that economists display an inordinate fondness for theoretical models. Now, no one doubts that reality is more complex than theory. With the exception of certain mathematicians who cultivate Platonic expectations of discovering "pure truth" through numbers, this fact is almost universally accepted--not only by economists, but also by chemists and physicists, who recognize the limits of the human mind. Indeed, for most economists (myself included), the formal model is first and foremost a useful tool for clarifying thought and improving our ability to grasp what actually transpires in the world around us. Until a more efficient means of utilizing science is found, we have no choice but to rely on this tool--without fetishizing it, of course.

This is not to say we should dismiss Rubinstein's criticisms out of hand. His argument that economic theory erroneously assumes that human beings are rational creatures is a common critique, and deserves a detailed response. First, we must recognize that assumptions can be useful even if they are entirely baseless; physics provides us with abundant evidence of that. For instance, we can calculate the depth of a hole in a fairly accurate fashion by measuring the time it takes a stone to fall to the bottom, even if we assume, for simplicity's sake, the absence of friction. Of course, were a feather dropped instead of a stone, this unrealistic assumption would produce extremely inaccurate results. Clearly, however, under certain circumstances, it is better to keep things simple.

Second, and more important, Rubinstein's claim that the assumption of human rationality is the unchallenged dogma upon which all economic study is based is completely groundless. If such dogma does exist, it is the assertion that people react to incentives--but that is, more or less, the sum of it. The expectation of rational behavior indeed merits an important place in the science of economics, but it is certainly not its sole feature, and some theories ignore it entirely. John Maynard Keynes, one of the twentieth century's most important economists, provides us with a prime example. Keynes achieved international acclaim by identifying the error in the classic premise that supply creates demand, and that the economy will always gravitate toward full employment. He demonstrated, instead, that if the price mechanism does not react immediately, demand will dictate supply, at least in the short term (which can last years). Consequently, by expanding the scope of its involvement in the economy, the government can increase the employment rate during a recession. Keynes' economic theories, which dominated the field for decades, are to this day considered the leading strategy for combating recession. But his approach in no way assumes that human beings behave in a rational manner. On the contrary, an increase in government spending or a reduction in taxes in an effort to boost consumption necessarily results in a ballooning deficit and public debt--which, in the long term, require a raise in taxes. Indeed, if consumers were guided by purely rational considerations, they would undoubtedly realize that they will one day be forced to shoulder a heavier tax burden, and therefore attempt to reduce their expenses in the present--thus rendering massive government spending ineffective. However, Keynes believed--and to a certain extent, justly--that there is no real reason to fear this prospect.

Armed with the abovementioned arguments, Rubinstein advises against giving any weight to the opinion of economists in the formulation of policy. I must admit that I, too, am alarmed when a colleague proposes a plan of action that relies heavily on one theoretical model or another. Likewise, I cringe at economists who support their recommendations by wielding professional authority without providing anything resembling a convincing explanation. Nonetheless, it is obvious that having a particular political outlook or ethical stance is insufficient for making well-informed decisions concerning the intelligent allocation of limited resources. One also needs objective knowledge--and this knowledge, incomplete as it may be, is more readily available to economists than to any other group of experts or laypersons, given that they have amassed it over years of methodical research and ongoing effort to make sense of their findings. To ignore their contribution--to dismiss them, as does Rubinstein, as "tellers of tall tales"--is a privilege reserved for those who have given up not only on economics, but on the search for the truth altogether.

Rubinstein's critique of the value of economic research is rife with generalizations and sweeping conclusions, but at least it is presented in an original manner. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of his attack on the market economy and the professionals who allegedly serve as its simpleton aficionados. Here Rubinstein's arguments veer into the realm of the banal and the demagogic. He declares, for instance, that he is "repulsed by economics as an academic branch that leans toward conservatism and assists society's stronger segment in [its efforts] to preserve its hegemony, thus serving people with whom I do not sympathize." Rubinstein is, of course, at liberty to think that businessmen and employers are no better than gangsters who deal in exploitation and abuse. In fact, similar opinions are frequently voiced by politicians and academics. Yet it is difficult to understand why Rubinstein fails to see that it is precisely the distrust of the wealthy elite that motivates Adam Smith's intellectual heirs to support a system that encourages competitiveness. Were economists truly interested in preserving any hegemony, as Rubinstein is convinced they are, it is far more likely that they would argue in favor of monopolies than call for their dismantling at every turn.

In addition, Rubinstein's use of the "jungle model" as a tool for criticizing the teaching of economics--and more precisely, as a tool for criticizing the teaching of market economy--is, quite simply, throwing dust in the reader's eyes. Rubinstein juxtaposes the market model and the jungle model, in which the strong takes whatever his heart desires, and shows how both cases result in an allocation of goods that meets the requirement of which economists are so enamored: efficiency. From this, he concludes that proponents of market economy may as well subscribe to jungle economy. Shrewd argument, yes, but marred by a trio of crucial and misleading errors.

First, Rubinstein paints a very distorted picture of the way economics is taught in the classroom. He certainly never attended the introductory course that I teach, and I doubt whether other members of the economics departments really conduct themselves as Rubinstein describes. I can attest that the majority of the lectures I give are not at all devoted to heaping praise on the exalted efficiency of the market model. In fact, considerable time is dedicated to the discussion of market failures and the role of government in handling them, as well as its contribution to the redistribution of income. An important message, which I--like my instructors before me--frequently impress upon students of economics is that "efficient" and "good" are not the same thing. Indeed, efficient allocations can be deplorable from a moral standpoint.

Second, Rubinstein ignores a fundamental difference between market economy and jungle economy: the process of production. Since such a process does not exist in jungle economy, which makes do with the distribution of existing goods, it is unaffected by the lack of incentives for investing effort and resources in the manufacture of products. In addition, in an economy that does not respect ownership rights, many resources--too many, in fact--will be allocated to the protection of property; market economy, by contrast, provides an abundance of incentives for production, all of which motivate economic growth and lead to a rise in living standards. Because Rubinstein does not consider this crucial point, his argument is fundamentally flawed. Were the matter of production taken into account in his presentation of both models, the apparent similarities between them would immediately vanish.

Third, although Rubinstein attempts to persuade his readers that the majority of economists are acting as an organized lobby in the service of the market model, the truth is far more prosaic. The primary function of the model is not to promote an ideology, but rather to assist in understanding reality. Adam Smith did not invent the "invisible hand." He discovered it, by observing what was happening around him. Smith and numerous scholars after him sought first and foremost to explain existing phenomena. The truth is, a good portion of those who live in societies where a market economy is the norm simply do not pay attention to the plenitude available to them (yes, even the low-income earners among them; the poor of today's generation enjoy luxuries of which the affluent of bygone eras could only dream). They seem barely to notice, let alone appreciate, the fact that the grocery store is open most hours of the day; that the line at the cash register moves rapidly (most of the time); that the shelves are packed with products--and that all of this transpires even though there is no supervising body that provides for their needs. Economists, however, do not take these things for granted. Rather, they take an interest in the price mechanism and in the way incentives function. To date, the market model is the best explanation they have found. Is it elegant? Moral? I am not convinced that these questions are relevant in the context of an empirical economic discussion. What I do know is that the theory of the invisible hand, with all the modifications and fine-tuning it has undergone over the years, enables us to understand a very valuable thing about the world.

As can be expected, however, economists are not satisfied with simply describing the state of affairs. They offer prescriptions, recommend certain channels of action, and rule out others. In this, economists are no different from other scientists. If a physicist were presented with a flight plan to outer space that was based on Ptolemaic cosmology, which places the Earth at the center of the universe, he would have no choice but to reject it. Likewise, were a biochemist asked to express his opinion on a medicine based on the Hippocratic theory of the human body, it would be incumbent upon him to advise against it. The physicist and biochemist would be forced to denounce certain ideas simply because they contradict what we know about nature. The same is true for economists. They reject the model of a command economy not out of some deep-seated hatred of socialism, but because they understand that, given what is already known about human behavior, and what we have learned from past experience, an attempt to manage the market by means of massive government intervention will not succeed. Had these same economists chosen to praise lofty ideals, instead of sticking to the hard facts, they might have merited Rubinstein's approbation--but they would also have lost their right to be called scientists.

Rubinstein, interestingly, is no socialist. He does support welfare policy, but his approach is much more conservative than it initially appears. Simply put, he believes that society should assist those citizens who are less fortunate--a point on which he claims to differ from market-economy fundamentalists--but not spread its grace all over the place. He is unmoved by populist social righteousness: Indeed, he has reservations about new immigrants to Israel whose ties to the Jewish people are tenuous, and whose economic contribution to the state is minuscule; he opposes importing a foreign workforce that wrests employment away from low-income earners; he criticizes the government's active encouragement of a higher birth rate; and he cautions against the proliferation of the needy. According to Rubinstein, it is an individual's right to make decisions that affect his own fate, but this right must not burden society with the obligation to compensate that person for poor choices made. Anyone can choose not to work, for example, and to live in poverty, or not to save for old age and to suffer pangs of hunger after retirement. People can even bring children into the world for whom they are unable to provide--but they must pay the price of their decisions. It is not the duty of the state to serve as a safety net.

This is all well and good, but Rubinstein seems content simply to present a general outline of his social views, without bothering to examine their applicability. Unfortunately, economists cannot allow themselves this privilege. It is too easy to wave the banner of justice from on high; what are needed are concrete solutions to practical problems. Thus does Rubinstein avoid proving his own thesis that common sense is preferable to the theories of an economist.

I do not take issue with Rubinstein's claim that a considerable part of economic research (and particularly in his own field of expertise) has gone off on a tangent. However, when a brilliant theoretician elects to challenge the entire discipline of economics, to draft sweeping indictments against it, and to deny it even a shred of legitimacy--one cannot help but form the impression that he is waging war not for the sake of logic, but rather, in opposition to it.

Omer Moav is a professor of economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the University of Warwick.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
A must read to anyone who took a course in Economics
By Inon Zuckerman
This book describes a well kept "secret" that is rarely known to people outside of the academic boundaries of economic research. I don't want to be blunt so I'll just say that (classical) economic research is very limited, builds upon problematic assumptions and its predictive ability on human behavior is close to nothing.

However, now we can read it from the writings of a world class professor of economy. Ariel Rubinstein sees how economic research is being abused to provide "predictive power" and justify economical and political agendas around the world, when it is obvious that scientifically it does not provide such insights. Sadly, the beautiful mathematical models that economic scholars use often blur reality in a way that the models are practically useless. The main message is that people should be highly critical when faced with economic "theories" as the main engine behind any sort of regulatory policy. This is a very important take-home message that shouldn't be overlooked.

Anyway, Ariel takes us for a ride through several important pitstops such as the fallacies in the "economic man" (rationality assumption), and some experiments that show that people simply do not behave like economics expect them to behave under that assumption. Next, we delve into Game theory and its inherent limitation (again, steaming from these assumptions). The next chapter was to me the most interesting one as it illustrate the Jungle model vs. the Market model, and show that they behave the same with respect to important theoretical results.

The next to last chapter walks us through one of his own research projects, conversation and persuasion situations, and reveals several weaknesses and criticisms that should have been pointed out in his own results. This is extremely important to see how interdisciplinary research often use some of the "respected" economical models to give a theoretic boost to its claims. Prof. Rubinstein takes us through his results and explicitly puts down the different traps that a critical reader of his research should have been thinking about.

The book is very interesting to read, and can be approached without any knowledge in Economy. The author also spice-up his ideas with personal experiences as a child growing up in Jerusalem, and from living in a lively political arena in the middle-east. I think the book is a must-read for anyone who ever took any academic course in Economy and for some reason now think that he can understand market and people's behavior.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
I feel a serious sense of deja vu in these (otherwise) very good books that end with some socialist diatribe
By Michael Hatmaker
First the good: About 85% of this book is truly exceptional. There are few academics that can take a subject as complicated as economics (including game theory, etc.) and present it in a way that is not only understandable but also enjoyable. This author accomplishes that, and I commend him on his teaching and storytelling abilities.

The not-so-good: About 10% of this book is mired in some rather obscure subject matter that cannot be saved by the writer's abilities (and probably couldn't be saved by *any* writer). There is a section near the end, for example, where the author goes into detail about his work on applying economic principles to language. I appreciate writing that is intellectually challenging, but this section (and a very few others) were so tedious as to be absurd.

The bad: Once again, I find a very talented academic writer that follows up 10+ chapters of precise, logical instruction with one chapter espousing his socialist views in which logic and critical thinking are abandoned to the extreme. Certainly, different viewpoints and political biases are beneficial. But the breakdown of logic in what is a book about academic rigor (or lack thereof) in economics is alarming. As a libertarian and a believer in the superiority of capitalism over rival economic systems, I was put off by the personal (socialist) political statement that is the last chapter. As a reader and critical thinker, I was put off by the vapid generalizations that infest this chapter ("Most people believe...", "Almost everyone will agree...", "All of us want..."). It is an almost-unforgivable grievance.

Fortunately, the rest of the book is so good that I could only take away one star. This book is certainly worth the read. I suppose I will have to learn to expect that any academic (regardless of their intellect or writing prowess) is incapable of ending a book without preaching their socialist political beliefs using weak arguments and scant evidence. Sigh.

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