Reiter's book also contains self-contained chapters on the Situation Calculus and the problems of formalizing reasoning about action and change.
In eight self-contained chapters, the reader joins Kornblum aboard his 24-foot catboat Tradition on a voyage of discovery from his Long Beach berth to Jamaica Bay, up the Lower and Upper New York Bays, along the East River and finally through Hell Gate to Long Island Sound.
My favourite book of hers is Clever Girl, from 2013, which tells the story of Stella in 10 seemingly self-contained chapters from her childhood in the 1960s through to her married middle age.
In 22 self-contained chapters, Levin considered various aspects of British life during the decade.
If you just want to read them as self-contained chapters, they work and they're entertaining, but I definitely see a narrative thread talking about the ideas of identity, and how people define themselves by what they're not.
Self-contained chapters deal with each of the 4 taxonomic viral families (Flaviviridae, Arenaviridae, Bunyaviridae, and Filoviridae), which make up the category of viral hemorrhagic fever agents.
Step 4: Development of the self-assessment guides We will develop the guides as self-contained chapters or modules, each devoted to one of the 9 different high-risk areas.
The fact is, though, that in a book organised in self-contained narrative chapters, not every chapter conforms to this theme.
Ever since Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (episode five, but who's counting?), none of the films have been self-contained stories, but chapters in a far longer narrative, so it's a relief to see events reaching a definitive climax.
Each self-contained, solipsistic "story" of a chapter zooms in on a moment of panic, crackup or despair -- or, very occasionally, of muffled epiphany.
Strength, endurance, beauty; challenges are overcome and personal demons combatted: our Olympics is an epic, with each chapter a self-contained episode, so that you can dip into the ecstasy for a couple of uplifting events or, as many of us did last weekend, watch the whole bally thing as if reading The Iliad in a sitting.
