[codr7]

More a bag of tricks to get around issues you tend to run into when doing OOP.

Bridge comes to mind, I ran into that specific example myself trying to OO-design a GUI framework with different back ends.

With a pinch of common sense stuff like Facade etc.

Much of it only makes sense for static languages such as C++ and Java.

I'd say it gets way more credit than it deserves.

Stepanov on OOP is interesting (just search for object oriented):

http://www.stlport.org/resources/StepanovUSA.html