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There's a lot of past, and there's getting to be more and more of it every minute. Richard and Cynthia Weatherspoon, aged ten and eight (and three-quarters), are living as (step)brother and sister in the midtwentieth century. But when they and their parents call on old Granny Ogden, the children discover that when they unlock Mrs. Ogden's back door, a path appears that simply isn't there to anybody else. They walk down the path with their dog, Timmy, escorted by a Magpie, and find themselves in the days of the Model T Ford where they meet their grandparents and sinister villains are foiled. As the children get older, through their early and later teenage years and early adulthood, subsequent travels down the path with other birds as escorts take them to earlier and earlier times?to the days of the first steam engines, the days of Charles I, the Elizabethan age, and earlier, mediaeval times. Some wolves, travelling minstrels/players, would-be bandits, a Scots prince, and a mysterious relative all appear in the action as Richard and Cynthia with Timmy, and their avian escorts seek to free a princess from a fate worse than death at a sinister baron's castle.

Set in a magical realm filled with shimmering lakes and lush landscapes, the story follows Crystal as she enters a world threatened by the Dark Wizard of the Mountain. This disgraced sibling of the Great Wizard of the Lake, Balthazar, seeks to overthrow his brother and seize power. Crystal's mission is to save this enchanting land from impending doom, navigating through its beauty and chaos.

Gives object programmers the information on getting faster, better results with strategies and templates. This book delivers guidance on object modeling. It presents 177 strategies and 31 patterns (templates) for achieving the best possible results with object modeling in all three leading methodologies: Coad, OMT and Unified.