Japanese Core Words and Phrases: Things You Can't Find in a Dictionary

Okay book, but misleading title

Instead of the "core" words promised by the title, this book presents what seems to be a miscellaneous and almost arbitrary collection of expressions and vocabulary, the latter of which are actually pretty easy to look up in a dictionary, despite what the cover tells you. The explanations are too terse and rely heavily on example sentences to get the point across. This book is just so random and disorganized that I can't recommend it, which is a shame because the author's other books are pretty good.