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Reading the book front to back, naturally, I found the skills chapter that outlines how various skills (mostly Athletics, some Acrobatics and Deception) cover what P1E handled as combat manuevers. By the time I had gotten to the Basic Actions part of the Playing the Game chapter, I knew it was possible to Shove creatures in this game, but I must have tore through that chapter several times before I'd remembered that those actions had already been covered almost half a book ago.
The Basic Actions details things every character can try to do and how those actions translate on a mechanical level. I don't think the rules for things like shoving, disarming, and feinting need to be rewritten here, but this is still an intuitively logical place for players to go to learn how those sorts of actions work in this game.
Maybe this has come up before or been asked before, but can we have some kind of a redirect in this chapter so players can more easily find/remember where those combat-manuever-sort of actions are? Page 307 doesn't re-detail how casting a spell or using magic items works, but it does at least recognize that players may look for that sort of information here, and tells them to go elsewhere instead (pages 195-196 and 376, respectively). Adding in a blurb for skills in combat such as shoving and feinting wouldn't go amiss.