I would ask my old engineering mentor if it is ok to bring all my books to the job. His answer: "All engineers do research!" Thank god for the Nutshell books. This series [Nutshell] is not for language learners, although I still learn new things from these books. Like most object-oriented languages, C++ is a huge language with many constructs. The "C++ In A Nutshell" book documents nearly all the basic functionality and some esoterica.

Since all engineers do research, we have to have research materials. The Nutshell series does just that, it documents what is, without throwing-out to much design phylosophy. There are other books better suited for this purpose.

DC