Books

C++ How To Program

by Deitel & Deitel 2nd edition. Pub: Prentice Hall (1998), ISBN 0-13-528910-6 1130 pp
A very good and friendly introduction to C++.

Practical C++ Programming

by Steve Oualline, Pub: O'Reilly and Associates (Squirrel cover), ISBN: 1-56592-139-9, 557 pp
Good for someone with no or very little experience in C or C++ and probably a very good book for Fortran programmers who are just learning C/C++.

Large-Scale C++ Software Design

by J. Lakos. Pub: Addison-Wesley Pub Co; ISBN: 0201633620
Good for deciding how packages should be defined and layed out so that they can be tested incrementally and in isolation and ways of detecting poor designs from the physical layout of the code.