Heidi,
I'm glad to know that you now know of Chris Jones' 'Design Methods' book (originally published 1970; slightly revised edition 1981; a further reprinted but not revised version 1992), of which someone on this list sent you a pdf copy. My copy of the book says "Copyright John Wiley and Sons Ltd. 1970, 1981. No part of this book may be reproduced by any means, nor transmitted, nor translated into a machine language without the written permission of the publisher." So whoever sent you a pdf copy seems to have breached the copyright (unless they obtained permission and paid a reproduction fee) and what you have is most likely a pirated, illegal copy. Print versions of the book are currently out of stock, but a Kindle edition is available. There has been discussion on this list as to whether copying and transmitting someone else's work is theft, but it clearly seems a breach of copyright protection.
Best wishes,
Nigel Cross
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