For the record, my grad class used Hennessy and Patterson (http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Architecture-Quantitative-App...). Also, I think that "summary" should indicate that the real thing will have "much more grueling detail."
AFAI(K|R), Hennesy and Patterson's cannonical text (CA-AQA [1]) reflects this: going from 3rd to 4th edition, we find a new chapter "Limits on ILP", VLIW/EPIC elements have been moved from the main contents to the CD-ROM, too (which probably is not a good indicator, though: the 3rd edition was just too heavy to carry it around a lot ;)
[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Architecture-Quantitative-App...
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Architecture-Quantitative-App...