I like the beginners book I have, it is covering ANSI C++ and while the book is quite helpful to VisualStudio users, it at least covers the ANSI standard which Microsoft seems to not want to follow :-) It is also older... the book is "Ivor Horton's Beginning C++: The Complete Language" published by Wrox and apparently first published in 1998.
The ISBN number is: 1-861000-12-X
I love this book as it got me through my college courses for C++ and he talks in plain English!
Hope that helps.
