With a title like "Contemporary Knife Targeting" you'd assume targeting would be the primary focus of this 145 pg book. Sadly, it is not.
The book begins with an examination of the spurious claims made in Fairbairn's "Timetable of Death" (i.e., how many seconds does it take for an individual to bleed out after X blood vessel is severed). Martial artists have known for years that the timetable was flawed, and -- using statistics from a variety of medical sources -- this book shows you exactly why. Additionally, it gives several tables of estimates for each vascular target, based upon bodyweight and heartrate. Very impressive, and a good reason to add this book to your collection.
However, that's where the "targeting" pretty much ends. After the tables of bleedout rates, there are a few pages of vague information regarding non-vascular targets and bio-mechanical cutting, as well as a few B&W file photos of knife wounds . . . then the rest of the book is devoted to knife disarming techniques.
IIRC, only about a third of the text concerned "targeting" at all -- and much of that was an analysis of Fairbairn's claims compared with contemporary data. I wish that Janich had left out the disarming techniques and spent more time discussing targeting and tactics. This could've been a great book.