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Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Author -- Introduction to contracts, procurements and related fraud -- Corruption in contracting -- Source selection and competition schemes -- Contractor and vendor performance schemes -- Contractor and vendor payment schemes -- Investigators, enforcers and statutes -- Investigative sources and resources -- Investigative tools and techniques -- Interviews and interrogations -- Investigative reports and evidence -- Investigative case planning, goals, and strategies -- (the Piper method of conducting thorough and complete investigations*) -- Case presentations and testifying -- Post adjudicative action -- Sample case study-story # 1 -- Sample case study-story # 2 -- Sample case study-story # 3 -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Samples of visual aids for presentations on contract and procurement fraud, collusion and corruption investigations -- Index.

"Contract and procurement fraud, collusion, and corruption are worldwide problems. Such wrongdoing causes federal, state, and local governments, as well as private-sector corporations and businesses, to lose funds and profits, while the wrongdoers unjustly benefit. Bid riggers conspire to eliminate fair and open competition and unjustly increase prices, allowing some to monopolize industries. Too often, contracting officials and others responsible for placing orders or awarding contracts compromise their integrity and eliminate fair and open competition to favor vendors offering bribes or gifts. This results in unfair playing fields for vendors and causes financial losses for businesses, government agencies, and taxpayers. Charles Piper's Contract and Procurement Fraud and Corruption Investigation Guidebook educates readers on fraud and corruption schemes that occur before, during, and after contracts are awarded. This book teaches not only how to identify such wrongdoing, but also how to investigate it and prevent reoccurrence. Piper shares the Piper Method of Conducting Thorough and Complete Investigations, his innovative and proven method of investigating contract and procurement fraud, and demonstrates its principles with personal, on-the-job examples (which he calls "War Stories") woven throughout the text. Intended for criminal justice students, as well as investigators, auditors, examiners, business owners, policy-makers, and other professionals potentially affected by fraud, this book is a must-read guide to effective procurement and contract fraud investigations from inception to testimony."--Provided by publisher.

This is a book that goes beyond a mere examination of the role of the family in structuring sexual relationships, kinship relations, and child rearing practices. Here are historical examples of the family as a source of labor and capital accumulation, as a mechanism for the transmission of property, and as a means for the imposition of social control

Part I. The Texas years, 1858-1912 -- A spacious youth -- Searching for a career -- Texas politics: creating "our crowd" -- The "twilight years" -- "The man and the opportunity" -- The ideal society -- Part II. Wilson in power, 1913-1914 -- "Our crowd" goes to Washington -- Foreign horizons, 1913 -- The new freedom -- Reform and intervention -- "The great adventure" -- Part III. The Great War, 1914-1917 -- The Great War -- The search for peace -- London, Paris, Berlin -- The turn to war -- American interlude -- The lure of peace -- The House-Grey Memorandum -- The failure of peace -- Presidential politics -- Re-election and the plea for peace -- America goes to war -- Part IV. America at war, 1917-1918 -- America prepares for war -- The strains of coalition warfare -- Envoy to the allies -- Crises at home and abroad -- The turning point -- The end of the war -- Part V. Peacemaking, 1919-1920 -- Waiting for the Peace Conference -- The Peace Conference, I -- The Peace Conference, II -- The fight for the League -- Part VI. Elder statesman, 1921-1938 -- The end of the Wilson Era -- New beginnings -- Marking time -- Victory at last -- The crisis of the 1930s -- Epilogue: crossing the river

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1. Suffering Is Optional -- Lesson: Although suffering in life is inevitable, we can mitigate it. -- Chapter 2. Social Security -- Lesson: Love is an irreducible, lifelong requirement for health and well-being. -- Chapter 3. Humpty Dumpty or Bionic Man? -- Lesson: Pain, injury, illness, or setbacks of any kind involve distress and demoralization -- recovery requires trust and courage. -- Chapter 4. Loss: Subtraction and Addition -- Lesson: The anguish associated with loss is necessary to help with separation from the lost person, image, or belief -- to promote affiliation for comfort -- and for emotion regulation. -- Chapter 5. Phantom Pain -- Lesson: Longtime companions maintain a presence in our brains when they go, which renders our whole world different and incomplete. -- Chapter 6. Best Damn Health Plan -- Lesson: You can be an active architect of your own good health plan. -- Chapter 7. Noblesse Oblige -- Lesson: Exhibit unmistakable beneficence when in a superior position. -- Chapter 8. Think Small for Success -- Lesson: We can modify our environment to our benefit. -- Chapter 9. I Touch Them All and Never Lift a Finger -- Lesson: Words are potent forms of energy that you can wield wisely to promote good for yourself and others. -- Chapter 10. The Ultimate Renewable Resource: Love -- Lesson: The capacity to give loving care is unlimited, under the proper conditions. -- Chapter 11. The Most Important Decisions You Will Ever Make: Forgiveness, Acceptance, and Attitude -- Lesson: Good news: you can choose happiness. -- Chapter 12. Pump the Brakes -- Lesson: Resist the temptation to act in haste: your intellectual faculties and judgment are at their worst in a crisis. -- Chapter 13. Finding My Religion.

The five Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan constitute an area of increasing importance in global politics. The region currently serves as the main route for transporting American and NATO supplies and personnel into Afghanistan. Its Turkic Muslim peoples share ethnic and religious roots with China's Uighurs in neighboring Xinjiang, where some Uighurs have connections to the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, fueling Beijing's already acute fears of terrorism and separatism. Perhaps most importantly, the Caspian basin holds immense reserve

"Investigator and Fraud Fighter Guidebook provides investigative insight and guidance on how to conduct thorough and complete investigations. The methods taught will allow investigators to solve more cases - even with fewer resources. The author teaches how investigators should perform as many as ten different types of investigations simultaneously: 1. Criminal, 2. Civil, 3. Administrative, 4. ID similar wrongful acts by same suspect, 5. ID other wrongful acts by same suspect, 6. ID others who have committed same wrongs as suspect, 7. Project others who might commit similar acts in future, 8. ID Waste/Abuse, 9. ID Systemic Weaknesses (Cause/Contributing Factors), 10. Consider improvements/corrections to be made (to ensure the wrong does not reoccur)"--

Celebrated moral theologian Charles E. Curran examines and critiques Pope Benedict XVI's contribution to Catholic social teaching in this Georgetown Digital Short, available exclusively in this concise digital format. In his eight-year pontificate (2005-13) Pope Benedict XVI wrote two encyclicals that are significant for Catholic social teaching: Deus caritas est (God Is Love) in 2005, and Caritas in veritate (Charity In Truth) in 2009. Curran analyzes and compares the teaching proposed in these two encyclicals, given that these two documents reflect differing approaches. He explores presuppos

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This book brings budgetary theory and practice together. It exposes students to basic budget and finance concepts, public revenue, financial management, risk assessment, and cost benefit analysis, helping them gain the solid foundation needed to work in a budget office. This second edition features enhanced data and optional in-class assignments.

Plant biomass is attracting increasing attention as a sustainable resource for large-scale production of renewable fuels and chemicals. However, in order to successfully compete with petroleum, it is vital that biomass conversion processes are designed to minimize costs and maximize yields. Advances in pretreatment technology are critical in order to develop high-yielding, cost-competitive routes to renewable fuels and chemicals. Aqueous Pretreatment of Plant Biomass for Biological and Chemical Conversion to Fuels and Chemicals presents a comprehensive overview of the currently available aqueous pretreatment technologies for cellulosic biomass, highlighting the fundamental chemistry and biology of each method, key attributes and limitations, and opportunities for future advances. Topics covered include: The importance of biomass conversion to fuelsThe role of pretreatment in biological and chemical conversion of biomassComposition and structure of biomass, and recalcitrance to conversionFundamentals of biomass pretreatment at low, neutral and high pHIonic liquid and organosolv pretreatments to fractionate biomassComparative data for application of leading pretreatments and effect of enzyme formulationsPhysical and chemical features of pretreated biomassEconomics of pretreatment for biological processingMethods of analysis and enzymatic conversion of biomass streamsExperimental pretreatment systems from multiwell plates to pilot plant operations This comprehensive reference book provides an authoritative source of information on the pretreatment of cellulosic biomass to aid those experienced in the field to access the most current information on the topic. It will also be invaluable to those entering the growing field of biomass conversion.

Small and medium manufacturers' attempts to grow their business often produce less-than-desired results due to self-inflicted obstacles and pitfalls that defeat their well-intended efforts. Many do not follow generally accepted basic business practices such as knowing product costs and margins, obtaining strategically useful information about customers, conducting market research to identify prospective customers, and understanding competitors' advantages and disadvantages needed to build effective growth strategies. Their approach to pursuing growth strategies--a.k.a shotgun marketing--is akin to ready, shoot, aim--and often the business' working capital, cash flow, financial ratios, and overall profitability are insufficient to afford the costs of needed sales, marketing, and promotional strategies typically called for to find and develop new customers, markets, and products.