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chapters and devoted
For example, the second edition of the popular introductory textbook, An Outline of Money, devoted the last three of its ten chapters to questions of foreign exchange management and in particular the ' problem of balance '.
One of Hofstadter's columns in Scientific American concerned the damaging effects of sexist language, and two chapters of his book Metamagical Themas are devoted to that topic, one of which is a biting analogy-based satire entitled " A Person Paper on Purity in Language ", in which the reader's presumed revulsion at racism and racist language is used as a lever to motivate an analogous revulsion at sexism and sexist language.
Barnabas is about the same length as the four Canonical gospels put together ( the Italian manuscript has 222 chapters, compared with 16 in Mark ), with the bulk being devoted to an account of Jesus ' ministry, much of it harmonized from accounts also found in the canonical gospels.
Several chapters are then devoted to the subject of justification by faith alone.
References are made to Van Diemen's Land during the chapters devoted to Francis Crozier.
* Antoon Erftemeijer ; 2004: Frans Hals in het Frans Hals Museum, Amsterdam / Gent ( in Dutch, English and French ), in which various chapters are devoted to Hals ' life, his predecessors, portrait painting in the Golden Age, Hals ' painting technique and other subjects.
The narrative moves like a knight in a chess game, one chapter for each room ( thus, the more rooms an apartment has the more chapters are devoted to it ).
The text is composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare.
As an illustration, the systematic collection of the Apophthegmata Patrum, or Sayings of the desert fathers and mothers has more than twenty chapters divided by theme ; only one chapter is devoted to porneia (" sexual lust ").
Two chapters in On the Origin of Species were devoted to geographical distribution.
Each chapter of Organic Reactions is devoted to a particular organic chemical reaction, and chapters provide exhaustive coverage of literature work in the form of a tabular survey of known reactions.
Six of the nine chapters are devoted to the years 1377 – 1385, while the last two treat the history of the Lollards from 1382 until the Reformation.
More than two chapters are devoted to a description of MacDonald's Hyperborea and how Diamond got there.
Critiques of rival theories appear throughout the first ten astronomical chapters and the eleventh chapter is entirely devoted to criticism of these theories, although no criticisms appear in the twelfth and eighteenth chapters.
Life of Plotinus, chapters. 24-26 ) that the First Ennead deals with Human or ethical topics ; the Second and Third Enneads are mostly devoted to cosmological subjects or physical reality ; The Fourth concerns about Soul ; the Fifth to knowledge and intelligible reality ; and finally the Sixth has for topics Being and what is above it, the One or first principle of all.
His best known written work is the Kitab al-Tawasin (), which includes two brief chapters devoted to a dialogue of Satan ( Iblis ) and God, where Satan refuses to bow to Adam, although God asks him to do so.
In addition Liutprand of Cremona, makes no mention of this, and it would have been very interesting to him, given that he was a thorough gossip, had been ambassador to Constantinople and devoted several chapters to the misadventures of Louis in Italy with no mention of these Byzantine connections.
The tenth and eleventh chapters are both devoted to insects, the latter specifically focusing on the order Lepidoptera, the butterflies and moths.
* Hot Jazz, Warm Feet ( autobiography of long-time colleague John Chilton, with chapters devoted to Melly, 2007 )
The hardy plants Robinson endorsed were not all natives by any means: two chapters are devoted to the hardy plants from other temperate climate zones that were appropriate to naturalising schemes.
The bulk of the remainder of the book, chapters 10 to 22, is essentially devoted to the battles and tactical planning on two fronts, the Western ( chapters 11 to 14, 17, and 19 to 22 ) and the Eastern ( chapters 15 and 16 ).

chapters and origins
The fourth ( chapters 26 – 28 ) flashes back to the origins and growth of Milo's syndicate, with the fifth part ( chapter 28 – 32 ) returning again to the narrative " present " but keeping to the same tone of the previous four.
The first three chapters cover text that provide the supposed origins for the Swedish and Norwegian ( January / February ) torsmånad after Thorri and ( February / March ) göjemånad after Gói.
* On the history and origins of credit agencies, see Born Losers: A History of Failure in America, by Scott A. Sandage ( Harvard University Press, 2005 ), chapters 4-6.
The Nativity appears in chapters 1 and 2 of the Gospel of Matthew in which Matthew places special emphasis on the origins of the names of the child and two specific passages, namely from 1: 21-23, have theological significance in that they refer to the names Jesus and Emmanuel.
Of Dr. Ross's assertion above, he says about possible pagan origins " What can be said against it, is that it is less easily proved and can be less easily illustrated than the possible continental, French origin for the motif discussed in earlier chapters ...." ( The Witch on the Wall page 95 ).
This view is in agreement with Irish historians such T. F. O ' Rahilly and Francis John Byrne ; the early chapters of their respective books, Early Irish history and mythology ( reprinted 2004 ) and Irish Kings and High-Kings ( 3rd revised edition, 2001 ), deal in depth with the origins and status of many Irish ancestral deities.
Early chapters deal with the formation of Kitchener's Army ( New Army ), for which 1 July was the first major battle, and the origins and planning of the Somme offensive.
St Augustine ’ s book The City of God contains two chapters indicating a debate between Christians and pagans over human origins: Book XII, chapter 10 is called " Of the falseness of the history that the world hath continued many thousand years ", while that of book XVIII, chapter 40 is " The Egyptians ’ abominable lyings, to claim their wisdom the age of 100, 000 years ".

chapters and Britain
Following the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 it had adopted a format which gave a number of chapters to the history of Britain and followed closely the proceedings of Parliament.
Nevertheless, he mails copies of the chapters to the various spy chiefs in the US, Russia, China, France and Great Britain.
For example, several of the earlier VSI volumes were initially published as part of OUP's Past Masters series, or ( in the case of numbers 17-24 ) as chapters by different authors from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain ( 1984 ).
The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938 see chapters 7-8 for full description.
The Provinces of the Roman Empire ( 1885, 1886 ) contains thirteen chapters, namely: Northern Italy, Spain, Gaul, Germany, Britain, the Danube, Greece, Asia Minor, the Euphrates and Parthia, Syria and the Nabataeans, Judaea, Egypt, and the Africa provinces.
At first IVP imported books from IVF in Great Britain for use by college students and IVCF chapters in the United States.

chapters and on
Yet in several chapters on Scotland in the eighteenth century, Trevelyan copes persuasively with the tangled confusion of Scottish politics against a vivid background of Scottish religion, customs, and traditions.
La Croix on the Customs of the Middle Ages, 16 chapters of Bryce `` and liked it more and more '' ; ;
This book contains nine chapters on the science of the pulse and is a condensed synonpsis.
1 Kings chapters 16 – 22 tells the story of Ahab and Jezebel, and indicates that Jezebel was a bad influence on Ahab.
The printed edition ( Presburg, 1838 ), prepared by M. L. Bislichis, contains: ( 1 ) Preface ; ( 2 ) a treatise of eighteen chapters on the incorporeality of God ; ( 3 ) correspondence ; ( 4 ) a treatise, called Sefer ha-Yarḥi, included also in letter 58 ; ( 5 ) a defense of The Guide and its author by Shem-Tob Palquera ( Grätz, Gesch.
Aelian's military treatise in fifty-three chapters on the tactics of the Greeks, titled On tactical arrays of the Greeks (), is dedicated to the Emperor Hadrian, though this is probably a mistake for Trajan, and the date 106 has been assigned to it.
Daniel ’ s twelve chapters may be divided into three notable sections as based on its linguistic structure:
In the 20th century the first part of the prologue ( chapters 1: 1-2: 5 ) and the two parts of the epilogue ( 17-21 ) were commonly seen as miscellaneous collections of fragments tacked on to the main text, and the second part of the prologue ( 2: 6-3: 6 ) as an introduction composed expressly for the book ; this view has been challenged in the latter decades of the century, and there is an increasing willingness to see Judges as the work of a single individual, working by carefully selecting, reworking and positioning his source material to introduce and conclude his themes.
The visions, and the book, are structured around three themes: ( 1 ) judgment on Israel ( chapters 1-24 ); ( 2 ) judgment on the nations ( chapters 25-32 ); and future blessings for Israel ( chapters 33-48 ).
The first stage was the collection and arrangement of some spoken sayings of the historical Micah ( the material in chapters 1-3 ), in which the prophet attacks those who build estates through oppression and depicts the Assyrian invasion of Judah as Yahweh's punishment on the kingdom's corrupt rulers, including a prophecy that the Temple will be destroyed.
For example, George Livingstone Robinson's dissertation on chapters 9-14 concluded that those chapters had their origin in the period between 518 and 516 BCE and stand in close relation to chapters 1-8, having most probably been composed by Zechariah himself.
A commentary on the first two chapters of the book was found among the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran.
Distributions on the CPAN are divided into 24 broad chapters based on their purpose, such as Internationalization and Locale ; Archiving, Compression, And Conversion ; and Mail and Usenet News.
It retains as much of the text as it could while leaving out the risque sections as well as those chapters that young readers might consider dull, and embellishes a great deal on Cervantes's original text ( the title page actually gives credit to the two translators as if they were the authors, and leaves out any mention of Cervantes ).
In his book Adventures in the arts: informal chapters on painters, vaudeville and poets Marsden Hartley included an essay on " The Importance of Being ' Dada '".
There are a handful of sites on the web that compare chapters translated by various authors such as TaoTeChingMe. com and Wayist. org.

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