This is the meaty chapter that Photoshop users need. No one single book will give you the tips you need because your needs are always a bit different than the agenda of the author.
Evening has a calm agenda, with no political quirks.
The book nicely explains the helpful new features of the basic Crop tool. LAB is the intermediate color space between the two modes. Evening appears perfectly content to do corrections in RGB, possibly because he knows how they will end up in CMYK and being a pro, he can fix any color misadventures. Since image adjustment is what Photoshop is all about, this chapter alone makes the book worth buying. Practice makes perfect.