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Discover Ludwig"back matter" is a correct and usable term in written English
It refers to the sections and information found at the end of a book, such as the index, bibliography, appendix, and author's biography. Example: The back matter of the novel included a detailed glossary and a list of references used in the research for the historical setting of the story.
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back matter
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The parts of a book that appear after the main portion of the body text, including the afterword, index and bibliography; the end matter.
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The answer depends on why a book's back matter matters.
Still, the back matter is not simply a garnish.
In this context, the removal of back matter makes some kind of sense.
Back matter cannot bolster every claim, but it builds authority by allowing for the possibility of imperfection.
Instead, back matter is starting to vanish from books, the one place where it's still very much needed.
Publishers' tendency to take back matter out of books is cheap and lazy, and it only makes for trouble.
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To Torre, the health of Wells's back matters most.
Often "Homo Politicus" need do no more than play back matters of record.
As a young man in New York in 1941 he swapped letters with his childhood friend (and later brother-in-law) Sebastian Sampas, many of which are printed as back-matter in the "lost" Kerouac novel The Sea Is My Brother, published by Penguin earlier this year.
Second, having — or not having — the United States's backing matters to them a whole lot.
In a turbulent financial era, this backing matters more than ever.
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