Design Wise: A Guide for Evaluating the Interface Design of Information Resources

This HCI book was written in the late nineties, but the information contained is no less relevant today than it was when it was originally published. Design principles and user-centered approaches are covered, and the example diagrams and tables of guidelines provide organized and well thought out bits of information.
Ironically, for a book advocating design and user centered approach, the design of this text shows little consideration for design or usability of its own contents. I blame the book publisher more than the author for the arrangement. There are tables and field study examples (often several pages long) that interrupt the reader by residing in the middle of a paragraph.
The biggest publishing flub, however has to be the missing example in which version A is compared to version B and the reader is asked to evaluate A and B, only to discover that B has been left out, and a duplicate of A exists in its place. Luckily the text is clear enough that one can surmise the visual design of B.