Hi zac,
I don't mind at all, I think there should be far more Information about Go books out there
I am currently at work, so I can't type out all of the 38 chapters eventhough I have the book with me. Those chapters are named after tesuji like 'crawling','turning', 'atari', 'pushing' and so on. So yes, they are grouped together by type and I guess we can trust the cover description, that there are 182 problems for 45 different tesujis covered. Some have more and some less problems. The introduction to each tesuji is explained by an example on usually less than one page.
The book has 212 pages and should sizewise be about identical with the 'Mastering the Basics' series. So there is somewhat more tesuji 'in there', as in the book by Davies. But I just checked the Davies book out at senseis and it says, it contains 264 problems. It is far too early for me to review or even criticize the books, but from a first impression I would say, that both books are very similar and they just wanted to produce a new book for the massess, that is really not needed. The new book is bigger and therefore easier to hold and the explanations in the new book seem a bit longer (I would have to re-check the Davies book for that) but due to the bad layout, the usage of space feels a bit wasteful. If you own an iPad or a MAC, I would suggest getting the gobooks-app and buy the Davies book. If you want the real thing, it is hard so say (for me). I really liked 'Get Strong at Tesuji' and that is why I feel a bit disappointed with 'A Survey of the Basic Tesujis'.
Did anybody read the 'Basics of Life and Death'? Is it also a remake of the EGS-book?