A good alternative to Design Patterns by Erich Gamma et. al.

[Daleth]

I put a request onDesign Patterns from a local library, but the book freaking went missing. What is another book about software design patterns that you would recommend?

[JLBorges]

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321247140/
http://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Improving-Design-Existing-Code/dp/0201485672/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0596007124/

A list from Hillside http://hillside.net/patterns/books

[Daleth]

Less than 50 bucks? What is this madness? I thought books like these cost as much as college textbooks. ._.

Thanks for the list, though! :D

[mutexe]

i bought that book about 9 years ago and nowadays just google stuff about pattterns.