Technology books?

Question

Books

Good afternoon everyone!
The question arose of improving the skills of IT department employees, by self-studying the materials.
Recommend books on the following technologies:

• Windows Server 2008 r2 (core services deployment)
  
• Active Directory (infrastructure planning)
  
• Exchange Server 2010 (planning and implementation)
  
• Cisco (starting from the basics)
  

Interested in a normal language of presentation, not a dry translation from English. Bookstores offer training courses, but whoever reads scolds them, saying that there is a lot of water and shortcomings.

Answer 1

Cisco (starting from the basics)
CCNA Discovery, if you have little understanding of network technologies
CCNA Exploration, if you are friends with English and have a little understanding of network technologies