penultimate chapter
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penultimate
adjective[before noun]
uk/pəˈnʌl.tɪ.mət/us/pɪˈnʌl.t̬ə.mət/
second from ...
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chapter
noun[C]
uk/ˈtʃæp.tər/us/ˈtʃæp.tɚ/
any of the separate parts into which a book or other piece of text is divided, usually given a number ...
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For example, thepenultimatechapter(the largest in the book) contains summaries of no fewer than ten different commentators within the space of thirteen pages.
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The link between narrowness and negativity is perhaps most clear in thepenultimatechapter, on the evolution of the language faculty.
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Thepenultimatechapterdeals with the role of memory and the search for personal meaning in response to impending death in a death-denying society.
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Thepenultimatechapteris a reference index, with brief definitions of virtually all the compounds that the average molecular biologist is likely to come across.
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Thepenultimatechapterexamines patients themselves and their role in industrialisation.
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Thepenultimatechapterreviews application areas, with a good deal of attention to those in the medical field.
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Thepenultimatechapterdiscusses the issues surrounding euthanasia.
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I myself regard my discussion of epistemology in thepenultimatechapterof the book as its most underdeveloped part.
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This is integrated in thepenultimatechapter, with other models of interdisciplinary working, to demonstrate the model in relation to chronic illness and disability.
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Thepenultimatechapterexplores inheritance and inter-generational relations.
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Thepenultimatechapteris on microsystem technology and information processing, with emphasis of the need to adopt a 'systems' view.
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Thepenultimatechaptergives striking examples from the interviews with the older women, all of whom lived as co-residents or alone.
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For example, thepenultimatechapteron the 'war on drugs ' would have been a good opportunity to bind such theoretical ideas together.
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It draws widely on research from other countries and includes apenultimatechapterspecifically examining trust in a broader, cross-national context.
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If the supremacy of the sign over the human body is signalled by the black flag of the last chapter, petrifaction is at its most sublime in thepenultimatechapter.
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In this respect, thepenultimatechapteris a particularly interesting read, and arrives at a framework for conceptualising policy processes that many policy researchers are likely to find useful.
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Thepenultimatechapteris a compilation of common questions about horse genetics and their answers, and the book ends with a look to the future of horse genetics.
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However, the broad range of antiparasite activity of ivermectin, including against mites and lice suggests possible wider uses and this is discussed in thepenultimatechapter.
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