If you are a C++ programmer and you do anything with threads in C++ then you really need just::thread, it is a good implementation of the C++0x standard. Version 1.4.0 just came out as noted at http://www.stdthread.co.uk/.
Shared memory multi-threading is anathema, futures are the future.
The book on Python programming I co-authored with Sarah Mount and James Shuttleworth, published by Thomson Learning (now named Cengage Learning)
The book on Java programming I co-authored with Graham Roberts is in its third edition.
It has been translated into Simplified Chinese.
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