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 <li><i>About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design</i>, by Alan Cooper (IDG Books Worldwide Inc.)</li>
 <li><i>A Discipline for Software Engineering</i>, by Watts Humphrey (Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.)</li>
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