David P : 614 books

The United Kingdom has more than 4.2 million public closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras-one for every fourteen citizens. Across the United States, hundreds of video surveillance systems are being installed in town centers, public transportation facilities, and schools at a cost exceeding $100...

This is the first history of phytotrons, huge climate-controlled laboratories that enabled plant scientists to experiment on the environmental causes of growth and development of living organisms. Made possible by computers and other modern technologies of the early Cold War, such as air conditioning...

THE #1 BEST SELLER IN BIOGRAPHY IN THE UK! #1 Best Seller in TRUE CRIME in USA, Australia, India, Spain and #3 in UK! Also #2 in DRAMA in UK and #3 in Australia! Also top 50 across Amazon in BIOGRAPHY! The following story is based on true events about my trip to Marbella, Spain, where having lost everything,...

A young couple buy a cottage that the wife comes to believe is haunted, but can the strain it puts on their marriage survive the investigation of a cynical radio presenter? This is one in a series of six short stories by David P Elliot from an anthology published under the title 'Pieces of Fate'.

Discrete optimization problems are everywhere, from traditional operations research planning (scheduling, facility location and network design); to computer science databases; to advertising issues in viral marketing. Yet most such problems are NP-hard; unless P = NP, there are no efficient algorithms...

'Political economy' has been the term used for the past 300 years to express the interrelationship between the political and economic affairs of the state. In Theories of Political Economy, first published in 1992, James A. Caporaso and David P. Levine explore some of the more important frameworks...

Only by stepping outside of yourself can you hope to understand yourself. Only by stepping outside of life can you begin to understand life. I tried to do both. I rolled up my portion of Space and Time, and as I stood naked in the middle of nowhere and nowhen, I started to think. And that is why I’m here.

Terry Bannister is a professional thief who tries to avoid working in his ‘unlucky town’. But is fate reversing his fortunes? One of 6 short stories by David P Elliot previously published as an anthology under the title of 'Pieces of Fate'.

When a genius in Artificial Intelligence dies, two competing companies battle to crack the most intelligent computer game ever developed. How far will they go to win? This is one in a series of six short stories by David P Elliot from an anthology published under the title 'Pieces of Fate'.

For author David P. Cresap, writing began by accident, or rather, it was a guided experience, since he truly believes almost nothing happens by accident. In Transcribed Rhymes, he shares a volume of poetry revolving around the trials and experiences of his life. Cresap aims to teach and provide understanding...

Sometimes, perhaps too many times, kindness is not what it seems...

‘Look to yourself, Myles Phillipson! ’Tis a fine thing you think you have done but this miserable parcel of land you lust after will prove the dearest a Phillipson ever got. You will never prosper. The time shall come when no Phillipson will own an inch of land. And while stand the walls of your fine new house, we will haunt it night and day. You will never be rid of us! NEVER!’

There was wealth here, he could feel it. Wealth they could tap, wealth they could liberate. They felt no qualms about what they did: most profit is earned on the sweat of another, most is undeserved. Most is then simply being returned to where it belonged. Not stealing, more a repositioning of resources. Another sanitising label. They had learned well from their political masters.

No one suspected, did they. Maybe we’d just gotten too caught up in our own sense of goodwill to wonder. Let’s face it, where famine stalks, death’s just a few steps behind, the oldest and the weakest the first losers, but where were the bodies?