After Meno spends two chapters introducing Odile and Jack, the reader hardly needs to begin Chapter 3 to know that these unhappy hipsters will meet and find solace in each other's arms.
Greenfield spends nine chapters on Ertegun's early life and Atlantic's glorious opening act: well-worn territory that he fleshes out and adds to.
As expected, he covered seventeenth-century statics, but he also returned to the middle ages, spending four chapters on geostatics, including the work of Albert of Saxony in the fourteenth century.
Whilst this work is mainly of scholarly interest, Alexander spends one chapter "Observations on the Essay" critiquing Locke, and here Alexander reveals the bent of his own early views.
I thought that the comment that I spent two paragraphs on my divorce and a whole chapter on my succession showed a lack of introspection.
Jesse McKinley spent two months looking into the activities of the Southern California chapter of the National Socialist Movement, the nation's largest neo-Nazi group, and the chapter's leader, Jeff Hall.
Core spent two years trying to reshape the franchise as well as writing a back story in the form of a book separated into multiple chapters, with Angel of Darkness being the first of those chapters.
US Airways, the seventh-largest airline, spent seven months under Chapter 11 protection before emerging in April.
G.M. said it received $1.7 billion last month from a escrow account financed by the Treasury Department to buy an interest in the reorganized Delphi, which spent four years mired in Chapter 11 protection before successfully exiting last month.
Pinker assumes that many of his readers will be skeptical of this claim, so he spends six substantial chapters documenting it.
