Don't buy this book. If you're interested in the topics covered, you would be better served by reading the original sources. While the authors have taken the time to reproduce code, text, and images from those sources, they have neglected to credit the original authors, preserve copyright notices, or adhere to the licenses of the copied material. Beyond the obvious plagiarism and copyright violations, the writing and presentation is terrible.
The entirety of Chapter 7 appears to have been taken directly from the implementation of the Origin C++ Libraries[...])---my project---without any reference to the original source. Not only does the book include misappropriated code and text, its presentation is, at best, misleading. The authors fail to note that the work is purely experimental and have managed to uphold some of the library's darkest corners as elements of good design.
Other parts of the book summarize or copy parts of the "A Concept Design for the STL", which is freely available as a WG21 document[...]. It's a good read, free, and written by experts. The same can be said of every other library referred to or borrowed from in this book (Loki, Boost, LibC++). To say that I am extremely disappointed in this book would be a great understatement.
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