Best Selling Books by David Levin

Mild-mannered English teacher Brian Smith has a big secret: he used to be a rock star. Kind of. But what happens when the rock & roll ghosts of the past come back to haunt you? This retired rock star is about to find out.

Two Cycles of Poems.

Rather than prescribe a single method for the study of literature and history, this work illustrates the value of studying the one with an awareness of the other. The essays collected here consider the element of uncertainty inherent in any critical interpretation of historical fact.

The Demons of San Antonio is a contemporary science fiction/fantasy novel about an army of bandito demons raised by Satan through hell''s portal in west Texas. The hate-filled force is the vanguard of a plan to destroy mankind and rupture God''s heart in the process. The demons'' pistols are loaded with brimstone, resulting in destruction humans cannot resist. As the demons sweep across Texas, incinerating structures and people alike, a small band of heroes waits in the Alamo, preparing to fight the sons of darkness with the power of God''s courage in their hearts.This book is the third of a trilogy, Demon Dust and Meatball Heaven being the others. Common characters include FBI agent Mike Hardiss, Scruffy the angel dog, child angel Adam Lane, Senator Abaddon (Satan) and God.

Satan used billions of years to design a death blow for God, resulting in his creating humans in God''s image and an irresistible demon plague released by a deep oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. The demon dust destroys concrete, steel, and flesh and overcomes all mortal resistance. An ancient admonition hidden in Vatican archives may hold the key to human survival. It is understood by only one person, an old nun ignored by the church. An angelic dog and his owner befriend the nun in Galveston and await destruction of the island city. The nun struggles to remember the Aramaic admonition, while the dog remains at her side as storm-like demon dust approaches.

Drug-eluting stents have emerged as the most effective method for treating restenosis following percutaneous coronary interventions. This thesis investigates how drugs with similar physiochemical properties but different specific binding targets yield drastically different tissue transport, retention and ultimately efficacy independent of their putative biological effects. Our central hypothesis is that both specific and general binding of drugs to tissue proteins, as mediated by drug-specific physiochemical properties, plays a central role in arterial transport and distribution. We define and compare the kinetic and transport properties of clinically implemented compounds with different binding modes. While hydrophilic compounds are rapidly cleared, hydrophobic ones are retained with an arterial transmural distribution dependent upon the distribution of specific and general binding sites. Common systemically administered cardiac drugs compete with locally delivered agents through displacement of general binding sites. Exploration of drug binding in thrombus indicates significant specific and general binding capacity. Stent-to- arterial wall drug transfer is acutely sensitive to stent strut position in clot relative to the wall due to thrombus binding capacity. A poorly controlled microthrombotic environment around a stent strut can drastically enhance systemic washout while reducing delivery to the tissue. Together this body of work implies that specific and general binding plays a critical role in the clinical efficacy of locally delivered drugs, and must be a consideration in the rational design of stent-based delivery devices.