The AA is trying to do things a little different here, with the 'magazine' section designed to avoid the dryness of other guidebooks' culture and history bits. All you need is here, but you do have to spend sometime getting to know the book. The maps are a good case of this. Inside front cover is rough guide to six sections of Berlin as covered in the guide and each section of the guide has map of its area. But much is on the border of three sections and so the guidebook makes things seem further than they are. Added to this is the lack of comparison across these six areas, so you have to do a lot of flipping about to see which is best to eat, for example.