It's quite possible that the images shown in the book are not produced with the standard Kit lens. To me and I may be wrong here, the image on page 68 was done with a lens with a wide aperture, something like f1.8 or even f1.2. I think they did this as an example of what the AV setting does, not what the 18-55mm kit lens does.
I will throw my old kit lens on my Camera and give it a go when I am at work and post the images up later today for you.
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