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Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services (2nd Edition) Review by William S. Story
Great book to get you up to speed on the concepts
This book gives an in depth overview of LDAP. If you know very little about LDAP and want know what it is, what different vendor implementations are available(at the time of the publication), some of the ways it can be used, underlying commands and protocol, how to make design decisions, and many other aspects, then this is the book for you.
If you want to deploy Active Directory or some other implementation, this may not be what you want as it isn't specific. However, I'd think it would be good to have for background.
It is academic in that it covers all aspects of LDAP in some degree--not getting into any specific implementation.
It does a good job in explaining what a directory is and isn't and when to use it versus a relational database.
Overall it is a great book on the topic of LDAP. More books may be needed to compliment it for specific implementations or programming.