THREE stunning documentary chapters, profiling a number of people living on "the ragged edge," are the most vivid in the book.
This chapter profiles the University of Edinburgh, Scotland's most distinguished seat of learning.
There were slightly more pronounced differences in HRG Chapter profiles between weekday and weekend admissions in the elective setting than in the emergency setting (see Table 3).
Cheever does so in her distinctive style: succinct chapters, pithy profiles and telling detail.
Sorensen wrote that he "did a first draft of most chapters" of Profiles and "helped choose the words of many of its sentences".
In the most moving chapters, Chu profiles gays and lesbians who are struggling to reconcile their faiths with their sexualities, some more successfully than others.
The book is ostensibly a memoir, but the best chapters are profiles of other people, and in many of the chapters that are explicitly about Campbell and his family, the most dramatic events (Campbell's H.I.V. diagnosis, the breakup of his eight-year relationship) seem to happen in the margins of the pages.
The popular London mayor and former editor of The Spectator magazine chronicles his city's rise through a series of chapter-length profiles of artists, politicians, warriors and other notables.
As late as 1956 — after Martin Luther King, Jr.,'s Montgomery bus boycott had begun — John F. Kennedy, by way of making himself a national figure, devoted a chapter in "Profiles in Courage" to the mastermind of Reconstruction's demise in Mississippi, Senator Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar.
This chapter presents profiles of major seal manufacturers in detail.
Chapter 9 profiles the impact of climate change and anthropogenic threats on alpine areas in northwest China and their flow-on effect to other countries (particularly to reduced water flow contribution to major river systems in Asia as a result of the glacial decline).
