This book is typical of the more "advanced" literature on theoretical syntax - it's full of acronyms where a simple English word would suffice for what are in fact simple concepts if you get beyond the incessant jargon. Please can syntacticians stop thinking using Greek letters sounds cool. It doesn't. The book is certainly not "core syntax", and it is certainly not for beginners - not because the syntactic phenomena it does cover are inherently difficult, but because its is only more advanced students who would ever be able to realise "oh he's talking about THAT when he says the theta-criterion EPP little v movement Merge whatever matrix theory". Please. If this is Minimalism, then Minimalism is just another way of saying the SAME THINGS but using different Greek letters and a different type of tree diagram. If this gets you salivating then go ahead and buy this book and keep people in their "jobs". If not, don't.