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In Herbs for Home Treatment, Anna Newton explains the advantages of using herbs—and provides herbal remedies—to cure common ailments and improve general health. She provides easy-to-follow advice on creating your own apothecary with a small number of versatile herbs.

Learn how to:

• Prevent and treat common illnesses with herbs
• Avoid some of the adverse side effects that are common with chemical-based medicines
• Grow and store herbs, and create tinctures, oils, and ointments for a home apothecary

This user-friendly guide to herbs and their medicinal properties explains how to deal with common illnesses—including digestive, respiratory, circulatory and nervous system conditions. Newton suggests essential herbs everyone should have on hand, and offers advice on how to get the best out of herbs for general health, including how to maintain your energy level, increase your stamina, and improve your mood. Inside you’ll find information on dosages, possible allergies, and clues for when it’s time to seek professional help. Also included is guidance on how to make your own apothecary, how to concoct a first-aid kit for when traveling abroad, and a list of herb retailer and professional herbalists.

Herbs for Home Treatment: A Guide to Using Herbs for First Aid and Common Health Problems

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Shows by example how to go about sound software engineering in standard C++. Softcover. DLC: C++ (Computer program language). Amazon.com Review
Aimed at the experienced C++ programmer, Herb Sutter’s Exceptional C++ tests the reader’s knowledge of advanced C++ language features and idioms with several dozen programming puzzles and explanations. This book can definitely help raise your C++ class design skills to the next level.

Based on the author’s Guru of the Week Web column, this book poses a series of challenging questions on the inner workings of C++, centering around generic programming with the Standard Template Library (STL), exception handling, memory management, and class design. Even if you think you know C++ well, most of these problems will teach you something more about the language and how to write more robust classes that are “exception safe” (meaning they don’t throw any handled exceptions or leak resources). Don’t think this is just “language lawyering,” though. The author’s explanations stress sound programming principles (favoring simplicity) and idioms (such as the Pimpl idiom for class design that promotes faster compile times and better maintainability, or using “smart” auto_ptrs with STL.) Judging from the range and depth of these examples, Sutter’s command of the inner workings of C++ is impressive, and he does an excellent job of conveying this expertise without jargon or a lot of theory.

After reading this book, C++ designers will learn several “best practices” of how to write robust, efficient classes that are “exception safe.” Chances are you’ll gain a better understanding of memory management techniques and working with STL too. For the experienced developer seeking leading-edge knowledge of some of the best ways to use C++, Exceptional C++ is both a challenging and truly worthwhile source of information. –Richard Dragan

Topics covered: Advanced C++ programming tutorial, generic programming, tips for string classes, containers and STL, temporary objects, exception-safe code tutorial, virtual functions, class inheritance, the Pimpl idiom, namespaces, memory management, C++ memory areas, overloading new and delete, using smart pointer with auto_ptr, using const, casts, and hints for better performance and code maintainability.

Exceptional C++: 47 Engineering Puzzles, Programming Problems, and Solutions

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From ancient medicine men to modern holistic healers, people from every culture have recognized the potent healing properties of plants and herbs. Readily available and easy to use, the herbal remedies in this book provide a completely natural way to prevent and treat everyday illnesses as well as maintain general good health.

Here, step-by-step instructions and beautiful color photographs show how to prepare and use herbs in ointments, lotions, compresses, poultices, baths, and teas to treat more than ninety-one common ailments such as:

• Colds and flu
• Depression
• Asthma
• Indigestion
• Acne
• Anemia
• Insomnia
• Eczema
• High blood pressure
• Arthritis

An ideal companion to Aromatherapy for Common Ailments and Acupressure for Common Ailments, this unique guide makes it easy to become proficient at the safe and powerful healing art of herbalism.

Herbs for Common Ailments: How to Use Familiar Herbs–Such as Sage, Garlic, and Aloe–To Treat More Than 100 Common Health Problems

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Software “style” is about finding the perfect balance between overhead and functionality… elegance and maintainability… flexibility and excess. In Exceptional C++ Style, legendary C++ guru Herb Sutter presents 40 new programming scenarios designed to analyze not only the what but the why and help you find just the right balance in your software.

Organized around practical problems and solutions, this book offers new insight into crucial C++ details and interrelationships, and new strategies for today’s key C++ programming techniques–including generic programming, STL, exception safety, and more. You’ll find answers to questions like:

What can you learn about library design from the STL itself?
How do you avoid making templated code needlessly non-generic?
Why shouldn’t you specialize function templates? What should you do instead?
How does exception safety go beyond try and catch statements?
Should you use exception specifications, or not?
When and how should you “leak” the private parts of a class?
How do you make classes safer for versioning?
What’s the real memory cost of using standard containers?
How can using const really optimize your code?
How does writing inline affect performance?
When does code that looks wrong actually compile and run perfectly, and why should you care?
What’s wrong with the design of std::string?

Exceptional C++ Style will help you design, architect, and code with style–and achieve greater robustness and performance in all your C++ software.Amazon.com Review
Herb Sutter may well know the C++ programming language better than anyone else. He’s worked with the language for years; he sits on its international standards committee; he works on the Microsoft Visual C++ team–his list of qualifications is astounding. That is, however, only part of the reason you should pay attention to Exceptional C++ Style. A more important reason is that he understands how to teach software developers: To wit, he issues challenges and dares the programmers to figure them out. Sutter grasps the importance of not lecturing smart people, and knows that guided exploration goes a very long way.

To give an example of Sutter’s challenges (40 of them, graded by difficulty, appear in this dense book) would take more space than is available here. Know, however, that while some of them deal with obscure parts of C++, most do not, and the majority of the challenges deal with aspects of the language you use all the time. Sutter’s approach doesn’t consist exclusively of challenges and solutions, either–the author takes time to distill the exercises into design recommendations, making it easy for programmers to remind themselves of what they’ve learned. –David Wall

Topics covered: How to take a journeyman’s skill with C++ and turn it into something more masterly, by exploring the behavior of C++ and its various parts in detail. Coverage deals with inheritance and other aspects of object orientation, exception handling, memory management, and templating.

Exceptional C++ Style: 40 New Engineering Puzzles, Programming Problems, and Solutions

• ISBN13: 9781586484712
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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A Kind of Genius: Herb Sturz and Society’s Toughest Problems