Here is a list of things that are not cover in the Carrara 5 Pro book so if you are look to learn about these things than the book is not for you. Many very important features in C5Pro are not even cover for example the new particle system, replicator, surface replicator, rendering with ambient Occlusion, irrandiance map, Anisotropic lighting model, Fresnel, translucency channel, weight painting, new volumetric clouds, matchmoving, Vertex modeling, new selection tools, soft selection, some edge tools and surface tools. It does cover Vertex modeling ,spline modeling, basic hexagon modeling, basic poser native import, some texturing , After Effects export, 3rd party plugin and introduction to 3D.