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The following are mini-reviews of books I read in 2013.
Also see the full index of books I've read.
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The authors begin the final chapter by summarizing what they've covered:
So far in this book, we've learned about the three financial statements—the Balance Sheet, the Income Statement, and the Cash Statement. We've learned how each is structured, its purpose and relationships to the other two. We've also learned how to separate Cost of Goods or Cost of Services from Expenses. We learned the Accrual versus Cash Method of accounting, service company accounting, capitalizing versus expensing, depreciation, and Cash versus Earnings.
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Also see the on-line copy of the book.
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Also see Language and Computers Companion Website.
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Also see the book's website, Edge of the Universe.
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Also see the book's website.
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Project Gutenberg eBook: Cranford
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Project Gutenberg eBook: Cousin Phillis
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Project Gutenberg eBook: Treasure of Kings
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Project Gutenberg eBook: The Harbor Master
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Project Gutenberg eBook: The Moorland Cottage
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Project Gutenberg eBook: Life in the Iron-Mills
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(I'm writing this in 2016, so please forgive me for any details I get wrong.) Jim grew up reading swashbuckling adventures and dreaming of being a swashbuckling adventurer. Life takes a different turn and he ends up as the first mate on a tramp steamer, the Patna. The Patna is carrying eight hundred pilgrims on the Hajj. In the middle of the night, with the ship's deck covered with sleeping pilgrims, the ship begins to sink. The few white crew members and Jim desert the ship in a small lifeboat, leaving the pilgrims and several Malaysian crew members to their fate.
The white crew members were eventually picked up and returned to land, at which time they learned that the Patna didn't sink and had been towed into port with no passengers lost. The names of the men would forever after be associated with their cowardice. Jim bumped around the world, trying to live down his disgrace, and finally ended up on a remote South Seas country, Patusan, where the natives treated him as almost a God and gave him his name, "Lord Jim". (According to Wikipedia, Patusan is a fictional country possibly located on Borneo, although other theories have been proposed.)
Project Gutenberg eBook: Lord Jim
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Project Gutenberg eBook: Kidnapped
As I read this story, I realized I'd read it before and I'm sure it was after I began keeping track of the books I've read. Somehow, however, I didn't note this one down. Oh, well. After the arrival of the Spanish, some Incas went underground and evolved into not-quite-human creatures adapted to the darkness. Some Westerners exploring underground are captured by the Incas and struggle to escape.
Project Gutenberg eBook: Under the Andes
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Project Gutenberg eBook: Vanity Fair
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Project Gutenberg eBook: History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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Also see Partners In Health.
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Also see Dr. Goldberg's Ask a Physicist column at io9.
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Project Gutenberg eBook: The Forsyte Saga
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Also see Triatomic hydrogen (Wikipedia), whose cation, H3+, is "the most prevalent molecular ion in interstellar space" and, not coincidentally, the "guide" for Dr. Miller's tour.
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Internet Archive eBook: Amalia: A Romance of the Argentine
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Project Gutenberg eBook: The Devil-Tree of El Dorado
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Project Gutenberg eBook: Faithful Margaret
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Project Gutenberg eBook: Our Mutual Friend
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Project Gutenberg eBook: The Odd Women
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Project Gutenberg eBook: Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
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