Anthony Williams Books

C++ Concurrency in Action, Second Edition is the definitive guide to writing elegant multithreaded applications in C++. Updated for C++ 17, it carefully addresses every aspect of concurrent development, from starting new threads to designing fully functional multithreaded algorithms and data structures. Concurrency master Anthony Williams presents examples and practical tasks in every chapter, including insights that will delight even the most experienced developer. -- Provided by publisher.

This well researched book will help you face and overcome life’s pains and tragedies. Drawn from prominent authors from the cultural heritage of both East and West, and arranged as a progressive journey, it contains profound and practical advice on all aspects of suffering from physical pain to spiritual anguish, and shows how you can take your unavoidable sufferings and transform them into understanding and positive emotion.

Explains how to create multithreaded applications in the program language C++11

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