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Patents don’t have to be a dry and boring subject, and inventors, investors, and business people may (and should) enjoy using them to their advantage. However, to empower the general public to use the patent system to its fullest extent, the need remains for a book that introduces important patent concepts in a humanly understandable fashion, with down-to-earth, practical advice and, more importantly, which is not boring, as many patent books unavoidably are to listeners who are not patent practitioners.

Beware! You are about to step into the twilight zone where dead people brush silently past the living ones. Will you find the answer to the strange nightmare that links a man, a woman, and a foggy city? While the story unravels, you will meet a little girl who can see her dead cat, an old blind woman, and a beautiful girl who died too young. They don't know what awaits them beyond that meadow, but you need to find out. Will you?

When brilliant physicist Professor Thomas Williams unveils his radical theory—that UFOs are remnants of an ancient parallel world—he ignites a firestorm. Determined to prove the impossible, Williams creates a way to traverse these worlds, defying the laws of quantum physics. But his discovery comes at a price.

Max and Darla are unlikely friends: he is an upper class city boy, and she a village girl who works in a laundry. When Max spends the summer with his uncle, they meet secretly to read from an old book that Darla has found in a dusty warehouse. The old book turns out to be a portal that takes Darla and Max on a series of breathtaking adventures, and sometimes gets them into big trouble. In the haste of escaping mortal danger, Darla and Max end up in an alternative world.