64 pages - introduction to the 3D API wrappers basically.
60 pages - basic 3D math.
24 pages - keyframe animation.
30 pages - miscellaneous stuff.
67 pages -building a model in Milkshape! isnt this a book about prgramming?

The rest is the glossary etc. I can see the authors intention, and he states it himself at the start of the book. The intention is to give the reader everything they need, starting from scratch, to display 3D characters in realtime. I dont really see who the book is aimed at though. The book aims to cover so much ground (from 3D math to using milkshape) that it seems rather diluted for beginners. And anyone with any experience will find nothing of use here at all. You can find tutorials online that cover each of these subjects in more detail.

This is a book that dares to be different: although claiming to be (according to the publisher) an "Intermediate to Advanced" text it spends 2/3 of its approximately 300 (rather small) pages telling you that a point is three scalars, and that you can translate it using a matrix...

Of the remaining pages, only 24 - yes, twenty four - are actually about the subject the book is supposed to be on, where the author actually risks embarrassing himself by showing how little he knows about his chosen topic. A couple of minutes with google will get you more information - and if you want, more code - than this book contains. Final irony: in the appendix the author provides a list of articles freely available on line (at Gamasutra) that provide a dozen times more information than this book.

For a naive author to write such a book (the author's bio makes it clear that he's only peripherally involved in the videogame industry, and certainly not as a professional character animation system programmer) is easily excuseable (as long as you get your money back.) But for a publisher - Charles River -claiming to specialize in videogame books to publish a book this deceptively labelled is inexcuseable.