New Releases by David Levin

Even before the release of The Starr Report (ISBN 0-7615-1960-2), people across America were asking why President Clinton would engage in such risky behavior. In The Clinton Syndrome, Dr. Jerome D. Levin, a highly respected addiction therapist, explores Clinton''s past and finds a pattern of destructive relationships consistent with classic sexual addiction.

Levin examines what therapists can do to help the victims of narcissistic wounds to integrate, mourn, and heal them. He shows the nature of the injuries to each party and considers ways to minimize them, since treatment itself can seem an injury to both patient and therapist.

Beginning with the chemical and pharmacological aspects of alcoholism, this book goes on to examine the medical, social, anthropological and psychological foundations of the problem. This second edition features discussion on new treatment

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.

Reinterprets the life and thought of the controversial Puritan New England clergyman, examining his religious conversion, his role as an historian and literary figure, and his fanatical attitudes concerning witchcraft.

A model is presented of a Markov process whose state is unknown except when an inspection is performed. The evolution of the process is governed by fixed transition probability matrices P and Q under non-inspection and inspection, respectively. The costs of inspection and non-inspection depend on the current state. The objective is to characterize inspection policies which minimize expected total discounted cost. The following specific models are presented. Model I is a process which starts in state 0 and is terminated when, on inspection, the state is found to exceed some fixed value M. In Model II the process is repaired (reverts to state 0) when the state at inspection exceeds M. Simple conditions are given which imply that the optimal inspection interval is a non-increasing function of the last observed state. Model III is an inventory process with uncertain supply as well as demand. Given order size n, the number received is Binomial (n;p). Costs of ordering, storage, and shortage are incorporated. In the single period case, conditions are given which imply that the optimal order size is non-increasing in current inventory. This result extends to the undiscounted multiperiod case provided the holding cost is zero. A counterexample is given for a two period case with linear, non-zero holding, shortage, and ordering costs. (Author).