In chapters entitled "Philosophy" — devoted in large part to pragmatism — and "Conclusions," James finds that religious experience is on the whole useful, even "amongst the most important biological functions of mankind," but he concedes that this does not make it true.
Lydon has been with his German-born wife Nora since the distant days of punk: two chapters are devoted, in every sense of the word, to their relationship.
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.
Early in his career, David Hume devoted a chapter in "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" (1748) to disputing miracles.
He argued that Goldacre had gone "over the top" in devoting a whole chapter (chapter five) to recommending large clinical trials using electronic patient data from general practitioners, without fully pointing out how problematic these can be; such trials raise issues, for example, about informed consent and regulatory oversight.
He devoted a chapter in the latter book to the replacement of sex in marriage by companionship and caring.
"He was a leader in what I called hard-sell negative advertising," said Montague Kern, a journalism professor at Rutgers University who devoted a chapter in her 1989 book, "30-Second Politics," to the Hunt-Helms race.
He devoted one chapter in The Origin of Species to "Imperfection of the Geological Record" and another to the "Geological Succession of Organic Beings".
Bluestone devoted a chapter in his new book, Buildings, Landscapes and Memory, to the banality of the buildings that followed the master in Charlottesville.
He devoted a chapter in his book "A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf" to the site, writing, "Never since I was allowed to walk the woods have I found so impressive a company of trees as the … draped oaks of Bonaventure".
