Summary

This book was written to provide a basic perspective of forensic accounting and fraud investigation. It includes topics such as the elements of fraud, the typical perpetrator of fraud (as well as predators), and the attributes of most fraudsters (such as the fraud triangle and diamond).There are also discussions of internal controls, and data analysis tools and techniques to help identify red flags that frequently exist long before a fraud is detected.

The authors also include a description of money laundering, including common schemes. The money laundering topic leads into the final topic of the book, which is whistleblowing. That topic includes best practices for effective anti-fraud hotlines. WorldCom is used as an example to demonstrate the outcome of a large fraud, and the impact on those involved, from the whistleblower to those who allegedly perpetrated the fraud.

Each of the book’s five chapters includes a fifteen-question quiz to facilitate knowledge proficiency.

While the book was initially designed to accompany a massive open online course (MOOC), it provides a reader with information to help understand the basics of fraud and forensic accounting, including anti-fraud tools and techniques.

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Author

Richard Dull is the GoMart Professor of Accounting Information Systems at West Virginia University. He is a CPA|CFF and CFE. His areas of teaching are primarily forensic accounting and information systems. Prior to his academic career his experience includes working as an auditor, computer programmer, and computer consultant.

Richard A. (Dick) Riley, Jr., is the Louis F. Tanner Distinguished Professor of Public Accounting at West Virginia University.  He is also the Director of Research for the Institute for Fraud Prevention.  Dr. Riley has been recognized nationally for his contributions in forensic accounting and fraud examination.

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Bede and Aethelthryth asks why Christians in Britain around the year 700 enjoyed Latin poetry. What did they see in it? What did they get from it? This book attempts to reconstruct the horizon of expectation of a highly learned, Latin-speaking nun as she encounters a fifty-line poem by the Venerable Bede, the Hymn to Aethelthryth. 

The reconstruction is hypothetical and derived from grammatical manuals, learned commentaries from the early medieval period (especially Servius’s commentary on Virgil), and a wide variety of aesthetic observations by classical and medieval readers. The first four chapters describe basic expectations of a reader of Christian Latin poetry. The fifth chapter places the Hymn in its context within Bede’s Ecclesiastical History. A few pages after Bede records his hymn, Caedmon will recite his own hymn under the watchful eye of Whitby’s Abbess Hild, who was a friend of Aethelthryth. 

Both hymns are attempts to reform the lyric traditions of pagan Rome and pagan Anglo-Saxon England in the light of Christian teaching. The last three chapters contain a line-by-line commentary on Bede’s alphabetic, epanaleptic elegy.

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Stephen Harris teaches in the Department of English and in the Department of German and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA. His books include Race and Ethnicity in Anglo-Saxon Literature; Misconceptions about the Middle Ages, edited with Bryon Grigsby; and Vox Germanica: Essays on Germanic Literature and Culture in Honor of James E. Cathey, edited with Michael Moynihan and Sherrill Harbison.

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For nearly seventy years, John J. Young Jr. photographed railroads. With unparalleled scope and span, he documented the impact and beauty of railways in American life from 1936 to 2004.

As a child during the Great Depression, J. J. Young Jr. began to photograph railroads in Wheeling, West Virginia. This book collects over one hundred fifty of those images—some unpublished until now—documenting the railroads of Wheeling and the surrounding area from the 1930s until the 1960s.

The photographs within this book highlight the major railroads of Wheeling: the Baltimore & Ohio, the Pennsylvania, the Wheeling & Lake Erie, the Pittsburgh & West Virginia, the New York Central, and the industrial and interurban rail lines that crisscrossed the region. These images capture the routine activities of trains that carried passengers and freight to and from the city and its industries, as well as more unusual traffic, such as a circus-advertising car, the General Motors Train of Tomorrow, and the 1947 American Freedom Train.

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Welcome to Wheeling, West Virginia
• Chapter One: J. J. Young Jr.
• By Elizabeth Davis-Young
• Chapter Two: The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
• Chapter Three: The Pennsylvania Railroad
• Chapter Four: The Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway, the Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway, and the Nickel Plate Road
• Chapter Five: The New York Central
• Chapter Six: The Industrial and Interurban Lines of Wheeling
• Notes
• Bibliography

Author

Nicholas Fry is the curator of the Barriger Library and is the archivist of the B&O Railroad Historical Society. 

Greg Smith is a retired educator and is currently president of the B&O Railroad Historical Society. 

Elizabeth Davis-Young is the widow of J. J. Young Jr. This book realizes her desire to fulfill her husband’s unfinished plans for a book of his Wheeling area railroad photographs.

John J. Young Jr.’s (1929–2004) hobby of railroad photography began in Wheeling, WV, and continued after he moved to upstate New York in 1959. He was a member of the faculty of Broome Community College in Binghamton and taught photography until his retirement in 1995. His photographs of railroads across the country were published in books and periodicals throughout his life. He was working on this book before his death in 2004.

Reviews

“The photographs at this book’s heart are uniformly professional, both technically and artistically. They tell graphic stories about how railroads were operated in the industry’s ‘traditional’ era.”
Herbert H. Harwood Jr., author of The Railroad That Never Was: Vanderbilt, Morgan, and the South Pennsylvania Railroad

“These powerful and often unconventional action photos show an amazing variety of trains. Young's depictions of B&O's mighty EM-1-2-8-8-4s alone is worth the price of this book.”
Classic Trains

Summary

Folk-Songs of the South: Collected Under the Auspices of the West Virginia Folk-Lore Society is a collection of ballads and folk-songs from West Virginia. First published in 1925, this resource includes narrative and lyric songs that were transmitted orally, as well as popular songs from print sources.

Through 186 ballads and songs and 26 folk tunes, this collection archives a range of styles and genres, from English and Scottish ballads to songs about the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, the opening of the American West, and boat and railroad transportation. It includes children’s play-party and dance music, songs from African American singers, and post–Civil War popular music. The original introduction by Cox contains vibrant portraits of the singers he researched, with descriptions of performance style and details about personalities and attitudes. 

With an introduction by Alan Jabbour, this edition renews the importance of this text as a piece of scholarship, revealing Cox’s understanding of the workings of tradition across time and place and his influence upon folk-song research.

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John Harrington Cox (1863-1945) was a pioneer in the field of American folk song scholarship. An academic educated at Brown and Harvard, he joined the Department of English at West Virginia University in 1903 as an expert in Old and Middle English and Medieval literature. In 1913, his interests in philology led him to begin collecting folk songs and within two years he presided over the founding of the West Virginia Folklore Society, serving as its first president, archivist, and editor. By 1925 he had published Folk-Songs of the South, the first major collection of American folk songs by an American editor, and he continued to collect folk songs for archiving, publishing Traditional Ballads Mainly From West Virginia and Folk-Songs Mainly From West Virginia in 1939. He died in Morgantown, West Virginia.

Alan Jabbour is a folklorist and folk music specialist who has undertaken extensive field and library research into the folk cultural traditions of West Virginia and the Appalachians. While at Duke University (M.A. 1966, Ph.D. 1968), he launched a project to document the older traditional fiddling of the Upland South. His work with Monroe County fiddler Henry Reed and other West Virginia fiddlers has helped make the older repertory of West Virginia fiddle tunes loom large in the contemporary instrumental folk music revival, and the Library of Congress has published a website featuring his entire Henry Reed Collection. His work with the Hammons Family in Pocahontas County has resulted in several important publications about this family’s extraordinary contributions to the reservoir of West Virginia folksong, folk music, and folklore.

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Frank Kearns was the go-to guy at CBS News for dangerous stories in Africa and the Middle East in the 1950s, ’60s, and early ’70s. By his own account, he was nearly killed 114 times. He took stories that nobody else wanted to cover and was challenged to get them on the air when nobody cared about this part of the world. But his stories were warning shots for conflicts that play out in the headlines today.

In 1957, Senator John Kennedy described America’s view of the Algerian war for independence as the Eisenhower Administration’s “head in the sand policy.” So CBS News decided to find out what was really happening there and to determine where Algeria’s war for independence fit into the game plan for the Cold War. They sent Frank Kearns to find out.

Kearns took with him cameraman Yousef (“Joe”) Masraff and 400 pounds of gear, some of which they shed, and hiked with FLN escorts from Tunisia, across a wide “no-man’s land,” and into the Aures Mountains of eastern Algeria, where the war was bloodiest. They carried no passports or visas. They dressed as Algerians. They refused to bear weapons. And they knew that if captured, they would be executed and left in unmarked graves. But their job as journalists was to seek the truth whatever it might turn out to be.

This is Frank Kearns’s diary.

Contents

• A Note to the Reader
• Foreword by Tom Fenton
• Preface
• 1. A Small Office in Cairo
• 2. La Guerre d’Algerie
• 3. A Reporter’s Journey to Algeria
• 4. “The Unrealistic or Impossible Assignment”
• 5. Algerian Diary
• 6. “Evidence of Considerable Interest”
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgments
• Appendix: Sound on Film Scripts from Algeria
• Chronology
• Notes
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author

Author

Gerald Davis is the producer, writer, and director of Frank Kearns: American Correspondent, a one-hour documentary film developed by Greenbriar Group Films in association with West Virginia Public Broadcasting. A native of Elkins, West Virginia, Davis earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Reed College of Media at West Virginia University, where he was a student of Frank Kearns.

Tom Fenton reported nearly every major European and Middle Eastern story of the day, from the Islamic Revolution in Iran to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, during his career as senior European correspondent for CBS News. He is the author of Bad News: The Decline of Reporting, the Business of News, and the Danger to Us All and Junk News: The Failure of the Media in the 21st Century.

Reviews

“This book offers a rare glimpse at a legendary journalist at work during the earliest days of TV. As if to make up for the lack of appreciation during Kearns’ life, Davis offers a loving tribute to a fearless reporter.”
Kirkus Reviews

“Frank Kearns was a fearless foreign correspondent—but was he also a spy? Gerald Davis has researched his subject exhaustively and provides here a richly detailed portrait of a brilliant, complex man. But he also lets Kearns speak for himself in his Algerian diary, a searing, compelling example of war reportage at its best.”
Hugh Wilford, author of The Mighty Wurlitzer and America's Great Game

“In an era of journalism now where the model is more attuned to balderdash based on weak or invalid claims, Kearns's work stands as an honorable model of what good reporting is.”
Terry Wimmer, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and editor, and professor of journalism at the University of Arizona

“A fine book about a fascinating individual doing cutting edge work in the early years of television war reporting.”
Tom Herman, lawyer and filmmaker, former field producer for CNN and correspondent for NPR; his films include the feature Live from Baghdad and the documentary Dateline-Saigon

“Even though Kearns was technically a journalist, my father Miles Copeland Jr. and the rest of his CIA cronies were in awe of him, not just because of his derring-do, but because he looked the part.”
Stewart Copeland, son of Miles Copeland Jr., CIA skulduggerist in the Levant; he remembers his father and Kearns chuckling mischievously together back in the day

“Here is an exciting, important book on Cold War journalism, focusing on reporter Frank Kearns and CBS News—the drama and danger are all there, but so too is the crucial ethical question, raised and described so well by Jerry Davis: should a reporter have cooperated with the US government in the global struggle against communism? The answer these days is a big no, but then, during the Cold War, professional judgments were often clouded and compromised. Read and learn, and then compare then with now.”
Marvin Kalb, senior adviser of the Pulitzer Center, former CBS reporter, and author of Imperial Gamble: Putin, Ukraine and the new Cold War

Summary

Winner of The Paterson Prize for Books for Young People 

Recommended by USA Today for Black History Month as "a blend of history and suspense."

In this novel for young adults, Josh knows there is something about the tall Victorian House on the Harpers Ferry Hill, the one his father grew up in, that he can’t quite put his finger on. And his impossible father won’t give him any clues. He’s hiding something. 

And then there’s the famous John Brown. The one who all the tourists come to hear about. The one whose statue looms over Josh’s house. Why does he seem to haunt Josh and his whole family? When the fancy Richmonds come to town and move right next door, their presence forces Josh to find the answers and stand up to the secrets of the House, to his father—and to John Brown, too.

The historic village of Harpers Ferry comes alive in this young boy’s brave search for answers and a place of his own in this brilliant first novel by John Michael Cummings.

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Author

John Michael Cummings is a short story writer and novelist from Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. He is the author of The Night I Freed John Brown, which won the 2009 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People (Grade 7-12) and was recommended by USA Today for Black History Month. His short story "The Scratchboard Project" received an honorable mention in The Best American Short Stories 2007. His novel, Don’t Forget Me, Bro, was excerpted in the Chicago Tribune. Mr. Cummings taught English at Seminole State College and was a reporter for The Fairfax Times.

Reviews

"Characterizations are sharp, the setting eerily evoked and the story satisfying. A highly original meditation on how the past can haunt the present."
Kirkus Reviews

“There are marvelous plot twists and surprises right to the very end…and his prose can be pure poetry."
The Boston Globe

 "It tells us to make our own happy endings, and that life goes on, whether we like it or not."
BookPage

"Cummings has a special talent for description, painting vividly clear pictures with his animated words."
Teenreads.com

"It is a fast-paced story that addresses themes like: familial relationships, identity development and brotherhood.”
The ALAN Review 

“A compelling narrative of a troubled family and a dark secret of past grudges and grievances."
The Buffalo News

"Thoughtful and compelling...This moody, almost Gothic, novel will offer you a pleasant few hours to be sure."
The Orange County Register

 "...Lively characters whose voices ring true. Josh is every young boy who ever resented his own culture and family.”
The Baton Rouge Advocate

“A masterful work crafted in the time-honored genre that Mark Twain milked so gracefully in ‘Tom Sawyer’.”
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph

"It's one of the best novels I've read in a long time...Calling all librarians out there: Buy this book!"
David M. Kinchen, Huntingtonnews.net 

"It isn't every day a debut novel is praised by a Poet Laureate, Newbery Honor recipient, and Pushcart Prize winner."
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle

"Cummings keeps a sense of suspense thrumming through the book…the story is mature, sad, affecting, and challenging.”
Mid-American Review 

“The use of history as a narrative tool adds a scope rarely attempted in the realm of young adult literature.”
Black Warrior Review

“Plenty of action and authentic dialogue. You care about our young hero, because he cares about so many things.”
The Texas Review

“Fresh and unique...the feeling of uncanniness never leaves the novel.”
Gulf Stream Magazine