The book includes the angry, frustrated voices of the author's friends and neighbors, as well as one self-explanatory chapter titled "How Did We Get Into This Mess?" Some of this will seem familiar to readers well versed in the torment and irreconcilable differences of Israeli life.
The website is limited to New Bedford, which is one of the two areas chosen for the pilot project and is composed of four main parts: an explanatory section on Chapter 91, a feedback link, a section describing the pilot project, and a section containing the database.
To help readers better understand certain crucial points, most chapters contain "explanatory boxes" that provide further details and interpretations.
Her first novel, "Behind the Scenes at the Museum," published in 1995, intersperses the linear narrative of the heroine's life with a series of chapter-long explanatory "footnotes" that fill in the back stories of various glancingly mentioned relations and events, painting an intense portrait of a big, messy British family in the first three-quarters of the 20th century.
But the classic Diamond – the one who cuts to the chase with great explanatory power – emerges in the later chapters, the most telling of which concerns diet.
In an explanatory note in one of the chapter notes, he reports an "embarrassing impression that everyone is wrong".
Each chapter has a quick summary at the beginning and explanatory boxes throughout the text, whenever difficult terms or concepts come up.
But don't be put off by my remarks, or any initial impression – the first chapter is less than two pages, then come five pages of explanatory footnotes, with instructions for further reading.
The analysis includes explanatory variables based on earlier studies of variations in acceptability (as elaborated in chapter 2): problem perception, scheme perception, perceived effectiveness, perceived fairness and attribution of responsibility.
The chapter presents a modeling framework for Caribbean reefs that appears to have some explanatory power at local ecological scales.
