Books
Elementary (K-5)
Title: Air and Water
Author: Miguel Angel Herrera
Editor: SITESA—Serie Nuestro Mundo
Year: 1998
ISBN: 968-6135-84-7
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This publication has 31 pages in which the author explains in a very simple language and experiments as examples, basic science concepts such as area, pressure, Pascal’s and Archimedes’ Principles, and surface tension. It is part of the OUR WORLD Series.
Title: Astronomy for Every Kid
Author: Janice VanCleave
Translation: María A. Guardiola Fernández
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Year: 1999 (First Edition)
ISBN: 968-18-4687-7
Suggested reader’s academic level: Something for all academic levels
Janice VanCleave shows how the natural phenomena that occur on Earth relate to the phenomena studied in astronomy and how to understand them through scientific explanations. In this book you can choose those experiments that interest you from a selection of 101 different experiments.
Title: The Night Sky
Author: Felix James
Publisher: National Geographic
Year: 2003
ISBN: 970-690-772-6
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This 12-page book has two objectives. The first is that children practice reading and comprehension, which is the reason why the author uses everyday words and simple sentences to describe the topics in the book.
Title: Earth Science for Every Kid
Author: Janice VanCleave
Translation: Juan Naves Ruiz
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Year: 2002
ISBN: 968-18-4688-5
Suggested reader’s academic level: Something for all academic levels
Janice VanCleave explains natural phenomena that occur on Earth through scientific explanations. Within this simple book, you can select from 101 different experiments that interest you.
Title: Climate and its Changes
Author: Janet Palazzo
Publisher: Sistemas Técnicos de Edición, S.A. de C.V.
Year: 1988
ISBN: 968-6048-02-2
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary
In this small book the author explains, in a clear manner, the properties that affect climate. This interactive book explains to children, in an interesting manner, how climate changes and how we are able to predict these changes.
Title: Stars
Author: Roy Wandelmaier
Publisher: SITESA
Year: 1994
ISBN: 968-6135-08-1
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This 30-page book contains beautiful illustrations on every page, accompanied by short sentences about the sun and the stars...
Title: What Geometry has in Your Life!
Author: Rosa Ma. Herrera Merino
Series: Orange
Publisher: SM
Year: 2001
ISBN: 84-348-8163-2
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School (9 years old)
This 109-page book has the purpose of making children familiar with the geometric figures that exist around them and why it is useful to know geometry.
Title: Day and Night
Author: Valérie Guidoux
Translator: María Emilia Picazo
Publisher: Editions Nathan
Collection: MegAprende
Year: 1999
ISBN: 2-09-250300-6
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary
This small book teaches children in a simple manner, through games that are very entertaining and educational, with colorful images, information about day and night.
Title: Addition Domino
Made by: Educar
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This domino game contains 27 pieces of wood with which children and parents will be able to enjoy themselves while the children practice addition of one and two figures.
Title: The Eclipse
Publisher: CONAFE
Collection: Science
Year: 2002
ISBN: 970-18-6216-3
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This book is divided into two parts. The first part talks briefly about the universe and the things inside of it, such as stars and galaxies like ours. Inside of these galaxies there are more stars and some of these are like the sun. Some of these suns may have planets like the earth.
Title: Exercices. Division
Collection: Learning is Fun
Publisher: Todo Libro
Year: 1999
ISBN: 84-7883-885-6
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This book contains exercises that are completed with stamps, so that children enjoy themselves and are entertained while learning and practicing division.
Title: Junior Mega Encyclopedia
Publisher: Larousse
ISBN: 970-607-834-7
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This small 326-page encyclopedia has colorful and amusing drawings that accompany each one of the areas in which this book is divided.
Title: Encyclopedia of the World that Surrounds Us
Author: Annabel Craig, and Cliff Rosney
Publisher: Todo Libro
ISBN: 84-8426-370-3
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This small 127-page encyclopedia has colorful and amusing drawings that accompany each one of the areas into which it is divided, including the numbers, heat and energy, forces and machines...
Title: The Encounter
Author: Fátima de la Jara, Rosa Luego
Publisher: Edelvives
Year: 2001 (Fourth Edition)
ISBN: 84-263-4052-0
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This is a nonscientific book. This book will introduce children to the Sun but will not give them much scientific information. This book is a fiction story that is very simple and fun to read. The book has symbols take the place of words so that the children are able to look at an object and replace it with the object’s name.
Title: Space (Contains CD ROM)
Author: Ian Graham
Publisher: El Ateneo
Year: 2000
ISBN: 950-02-8568-X
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This 120-page book explains, in simple, clear language, the role of the sun in our solar system, as well as the role of each of the planets, with their specific characteristics.
Title: Space
Author: Ben Denne and Elieen O’Brien
Translator: Gemma Alonso de la Sierra
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd.
Year: 2002
ISBN: 0-7460-5069-0
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This 47-page book is a brief but concise guide of space, both near and far from earth.
Title: My First Space Encyclopedia
Author: Paul Dowswell
Translation: Sonia Tapia
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Year: 2001 (First Edition)
ISBN: 0-7460-5074-7
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This book contains extraordinary images that make it possible for children to discover the splendors of space. It consists of thirty chapters and sixty-two pages in which the author describes, in a simple way, how we understand space. The reader will learn about telescopes, radio telescopes, space missions, astronauts, the solar system, distant solar systems and much, much more.
Title: Stars and Planets
Translator: Weldon Owen Inc
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Interamericana
Year: 2003
ISBN: 970-10-4169-0
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This 63-page book contains concrete information about the stars and planets near and far from the earth.
Title: The Stars
Author: Laura García Renart
Publisher: Sistema Técnicos de Edición, S.A. de C.V.
Year: 1987
ISBN: 968-6135-17-0
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This 31-page book, with many colorful images, introduces children in a simple non-technical manner to many interesting facts of astronomy.
Title: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Discovers the Solar System
Author: Ian Graham
Translation: José Miguel Parra Ortiz
Publisher: Kingfisher Publications & Universal Studios
Year: 2002
ISBN: 84-667-1395-6
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
E.T. has discovered our solar system and takes the reader on this thrilling journey. In thirty pages, the reader learns many interesting things about the Solar System, missions to the moon, terrestrial planets, gaseous planets and the search for extra-terrestrials.
More about E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Discovers the Solar System.
Title: Exploration of Space
Collection: Exploradores
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Interamericana
Year: 2003
ISBN: 0-7699-0563-3
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This 32-page book is a brief introduction to the world of astronomy. The topics are treated briefly and with colorful illustrations, however one a consequence of this brevity is that students generate new questions.
Title: Physics for Every Kid
Author: Janice VanCleave
Translation: Juan Naves Ruíz
Publisher: Limusa Wiley
Year: 2003
ISBN: 968-18-4693-1
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School (8 to 12 years old)
This 254-page book contains 101 experiments of basic physics that are “secure, amusing, and inexpensive”, and can be done with materials we all have at home.
Title: Nature’s Fury. The Power of Climate
Author: Joseph D`Aleo
Translator: Élida M. Colella
Publisher: Editorial Sigmar S.A.
Collection: Casa Autrey División Publicaciones
Year: 1999
ISBN: 950-11-1361-2
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary
“Through an amazing transparent window, you will be able to appreciate nature in full activity. You will get to know all the impetus of a tropical storm, the devastating force of a hurricane, the magnitude of a torrential rain with thunder and lightning or the white fury of an avalanche on a snowy hill.”
Title: The Scribbles of the Sun
Author: Fátima de la Jara, Rosa Luego
Publisher: Edelvives
Year: 2001 (Fifth Edition)
ISBN: 84-263-4054-7
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This is a nonscientific book. This book will introduce children to the Sun but will not give them much scientific information. In the story a sick little girl feels bored of being in bed and does not know what to do, when suddenly the Sun comes out to help her. The book has symbols take the place of words so that the children are able to look at an object and replace it with the object’s name.
Title: The Big Book of Space
Author: David Glover
Publisher: Comercializadora Planeta, S.A. de C.V.
Year: 2000
ISBN: 970-690-140-X
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This 48-page book with many colorful images shows children many interesting concepts of astronomy. Children will learn about space, the solar system, the earth, the moon, the planets, comets, meteors, asteroids, stars, space missions and many more topics.
Title: The Great Pop-Up Book of the Space Shuttle (3D)
Author: David Hawcock
Publisher: Casa Autrey
Year: 1998
ISBN: 970-656-239-7
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This book contains a pop-up space shuttle that is 1.2 meters (3.94 feet) tall.
Title: The History of the Blue Planet
Author: Andri Snaer Magnason
Translation: Kristinn R. Ólafsson
Publisher: Ediciones Omega
Year: 2001
ISBN: 84-282-1293-7
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This 94-page book is a short story in which the children of the blue planet have to travel through “dark forests, deep valleys and blue skies” due to the strange arrival of a being from another place.
Title: Basic Mathematics
Translation: Susana del Moral Zavariz
Series: To Have Fun Learning
Publisher: CITEM
Year: 2000
ISBN: 970-656-381-4
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This book contains 10 placards that are precise and easy to understand. The topics covered are: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division...
Title: Mathematics for Children
Author: Janice VanCleave
Publisher: Limusa —Wiley
Year: 2002
ISBN: 968-18-5079-3
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This 262-page book contains a series of experiments that are safe and simple to carry out in any place.
Title: Mega Benjamin Encyclopedia
Author: Marc Pelloté
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Year: 1999
ISBN: 970-607-856-8
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary
This is “a unique encyclopedia that prepares you to understand the world.” In this encyclopedia, children will learn in a simple manner about the countries and landscapes of the world...
Title: My First Numbers
Author: Mandy Stanley
Translation: Eunice Cortés
Publisher: Planeta Junior
Year: 2002
ISBN: 970-690-641-X
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This 47-page book “is a simple and amusing introduction to the world of numbers and counting, and constitutes the perfect way for all children to become familiar with the basic concepts of mathematics”.
Title: Clouds
Author: Roy Wandelmaier
Publisher: Sistemas Técnicos de Edición, S.A. de C.V.
Year: 1989
ISBN: 968-6048-02-2
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary
In this small book the author explains, in a clear manner, the properties of clouds. This book explains to children, in an interesting manner, how clouds help us to guess the weather, how many type of clouds are there and many more properties of clouds.
Title: Numbers, Additions, and Subtractions
Made by: Clementoni
ISBN: 5125-653607
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School (5-7 years old)
This is a kit that contains various elements to play different games that will teach one “to be familiar with the simplest arithmetic operations.
Title: Through the World of Mathematics 1
Author: Alicia Guadalupe Martínez Sánchez, Narce Dalia Morales González, and Domingo Horacio Rodríguez Arvizu
Series: Through the World of Mathematics
Publisher: Trillas
Year: 2001
ISBN: 968-24-6457-9
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This 230-page book is the first in the collection Through the World of Mathematics. “This is a series of workbooks for the teaching of mathematics in all the grades of elementary education.
Title: Through the World of Mathematics 2
Author: Alicia Guadalupe Martínez Sánchez, Narce Dalia Morales González, and Domingo Horacio Rodríguez Arvizu
Series: Through the World of Mathematics
Publisher: Trillas
Year: 2001
ISBN: 968-24-6546-X
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This 230-page book is the second in the collection Through the World of Mathematics. “This is a series of workbooks for the teaching of mathematics in all the grades of elementary education.
Title: Through the World of Mathematics 3
Author: Alicia Guadalupe Martínez Sánchez, Narce Dalia Morales González, and Domingo Horacio Rodríguez Arvizu
Series: Through the World of Mathematics
Publisher: Trillas
Year: 2001
ISBN: 968-24-5062-4
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This 235-page book is the third in the collection Through the World of Mathematics. “This is a series of workbooks for the teaching of mathematics in all the grades of elementary education.
Title: Through the World of Mathematics 4
Author: Alicia Guadalupe Martínez Sánchez, Narce Dalia Morales González, and Domingo Horacio Rodríguez Arvizu
Series: Through the World of Mathematics
Publisher: Trillas
Year: 2001
ISBN: 968-24-5933-8
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This 235-page book is the fourth in the collection Through the World of Mathematics. “This is a series of workbooks for the teaching of mathematics in all the grades of elementary education.
Title: Why Does the Wind Blow?
Author: Andrew Langley
Translator: Delia M.G. de Acuña
Publisher: Editorial Sigmar
Year: 1992
ISBN: 950-11-0914-3
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary
“The themes are explained in understandable language, and the illustrations on each page, carried out with humor, complement the information.”
Title: My First Encyclopedia of the World
Author: Elena Melgar
Publisher: Editorial LIBSA
Collection: Diana
Year: 2002
ISBN: 86-662-0392-3
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary
“This book presents animals, plants, the universe and man as an individual, approaching the early readers in a simple and a well-structured manner, but also clear and very intuitive.”
Title: My First Encyclopedia
Author: Jane Elliot y Colin King
Publisher: Susaeta
Year: 1989
ISBN: 84-305-1614-X
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This small 128-page encyclopedia is divided into five different areas: our planet, nature, history, the people, and science and technology.
Title: I can Divide
Series: Fun Numbers
Translation: Leticia Rello
Publisher: CITEM
Year: 2002
ISBN: 970-656-675-9
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
In this small book, children will learn to divide through the association of colors, forms, and numbers. The book belongs to the series Fun Numbers.
Title: I can Multiply
Series: Fun Numbers
Translation: Leticia Rello
Publisher: CITEM
Year: 1993
ISBN: 970-656-673-2
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
In this small book, children will learn to multiply through the association of colors, forms, and numbers. The book belongs to the series Fun Numbers.
Title: I can Add
Series: Fun Numbers
Translation: Leticia Rello
Publisher: CITEM
Year: 2002
ISBN: 970-656-67-6
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
In this small book, children will learn to add through the association of colors, forms, and numbers. The book belongs to the series Fun Numbers.
Title: What Do We See in the Sky?
Collection: Exploradores
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Interamericana
Year: 2002
ISBN: 870-10-4070-8
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This 32-page book is a brief and simple first introduction to the world of astronomy. The language used is very simple in order for children to understand without trouble the concepts of the book.
Title: Challenges 1
Author: Esnel Pérez Hernández, Gonzalo López Rueda, Marco Antonio García, et al.
Publisher: Esfinge
Year: 2003
ISBN: 970-647-592-3
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This 79-page book “proposes problems that, because of their conception and treatment, make the student build their own knowledge.”
Title: Challenges 2
Author: Esnel Pérez Hernández, Gonzalo López Rueda, Marco Antonio García, et al.
Publisher: Esfinge
Year: 2003
ISBN: 970-647-360-2
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This 79-page book “proposes problems that, because of their conception and treatment, make the student build their own knowledge.”
Title: Challenges 3
Author: Esnel Pérez Hernández, Gonzalo López Rueda, Marco Antonio García, et al.
Publisher: Esfinge
Year: 2003
ISBN: 970-647-593-1
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This 79-page book “proposes problems that, because of their conception and treatment, make the student build their own knowledge.”
Title: Rocks and Minerals
Author: Tracy Staedter
Translation: Ana Pérez Pérez
Publisher: National Geographic
Year: 2002
ISBN: 970-651-636-0
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This small 64-page encyclopedia is an amusing and educational trip through the world of rocks and minerals.
Title: Satellites
Author: Gregory B. Richards
Translator: Manuel Arbolí
Publisher: CONACYT y Ediciones El Ermitaño
Year: 1988
ISBN: 0-516-01708-X
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This 45-page book is a concise description of artificial and natural satellites.
Title: Secrets of Meteorology
Author: Pierre Marchand
Publisher: Ediciones B, S.A.
Year: 1997
ISBN: 84-406-6880-5
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
“Secrets is not only a book, but also a game… Discover the mysteries of the atmosphere and the phenomena of climate, and build your own weather station.”
Title: Lets Add with Dominos
Author: Lynette Long
Translation: Teresa Mlawer
Publisher: Charlesbridge
Year: 1997
ISBN: 0-88106-909-4
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This simple book has the purpose of helping children learn and/or review how to recognize numbers as well as to practice sums.
Title: Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Author: Lin Sutherland
Translator: Nieves López-Izquierdo
Publisher: Editorial Océano Colection: National Geographic
Year: 2003
ISBN: 970-651-716-2
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary
This small 64-page book has three chapters with colorful images. The author explains in an amusing and simple manner what are earthquakes and volcanoes. The author tries plant in the reader, in a simple manner, the desire to understand some of the phenomena that occur on Earth.
Title: From Earth to the Cosmos. Astronomy for Kids
Author: Deborah Dultzin, Julieta Fierro, Shahen Hacyan, et al
Publisher: D.R.
Year: 1996 (First Edition)
ISBN: 968-494-008-4
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This book is fun and easy to understand. In five chapters and 48 pages children will learn about the universe.
Title: The Earth. Encyclopedia Through Images
Author: Various
Translation: Susana Escudero, José Vicente Carretero
Publisher: Fleurus
Year: 1994 (First Edition)
ISBN: 2.215.061.44.8
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
With many extraordinary colorful images, this book introduces children to the facts of our planet Earth. It begins with the introduction of our place in the universe. Here the children learn about the formation of our planet, are introduced to the nine planets in our solar system, and discover our place in the Milky Way Galaxy.
Title: The Earth
Author: Miguel Ángel Herrera y Julieta Fierro
Translator: Antonio Navarro Gosálvez
Publisher: Sistemas Técnicos de Edición, S.A. de C.V.
Collection: Nuestro Mundo
ISBN: 968-6135-15-4
Year: 1987
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary
This free small 31-page book contains many colorful illustrations. This book is a brief introduction to the study of the Earth. The reader will learn about rocks, minerals, fossils…
Title: The Earth
Author: Trent Johnson
Translator: Una Pérez Ruiz
Publisher: Alfaguara
Year: 2003
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary
ISBN: 970-690-778-5
This small book contains colorful images and is very simple to understand. This book gives children a brief introduction to the Earth.
Title: The Universe. The Earth, the planets, the stars, the galaxies...
Author: Anna Alter and Pascal Weil
Translation: Sergi Torner Castellas
Publisher: Françoise Vibert-Guigue y Nathalie Weil
Year: 2000
ISBN: 84-8332-219-6
Suggested reader’s academic level: Elementary School
This book is fun to read and easy to understand. The children begin with Earth, where they learn that the Earth is a planet in the big empty universe and that Earth rotates on its axis. Later on, they learn about our solar system, about terrestrial and gaseous planets and that the Sun is a star. They learn about stars and galaxies, the birth and death of stars, super red giants, red giants, white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes.
More about The Universe. The Earth, the planets, the stars, the galaxies....
Middle and High School (6-12)
Title: Spying on the Stars
Author: Pierre Bourge and Jean Lacroux
Translator: Leonardo Javier Sánchez Peniche
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Year: 2001
ISBN: 968-16-6392-6
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
This 447-page book is an introduction to astronomy and the way in which it is studied. The book is divided into 44 chapters that go from the definition of astronomy to the explanation of the galaxy and the observation of the universe.
Title: Water
Author: Manuel Guerrero
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 2001 (Third edition)
ISBN: 968-16-6366-X (Third Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-5756-X (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-3634-1 (First Edition)
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
In this 117-page book the author explains what is water, its importance for life and for the earth, its use in cities...
Title: Albert Einstein, Solitary Navigator
Author: Luis de la Peña
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 2000 (Second Edition, First Reprint)
ISBN: 968-16-5702-0 (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-2566-8 (First Edition)
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
In 119 pages plus a series of pictures at the end of the book, the author tells us about the life of this very important man, as well as what was happening in the world during his time.
Title: Astronomy—The Océano Visual Atlas
Publisher: Océano
Year: 1999
ISBN: 84-494-1286-2
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
This book of 81 pages explains in depth the world of astronomy in a simple language for every person that wishes to understand it. The book has appealing color images that complement the text.
Title: Contemporary Astronomy
Author: Jorge Ruiz Morales
Publisher: Equipo Sirius S.A.
Year: 1998
ISBN: 84-86639-89-1
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
In five chapter and 213 pages, this book offers to the readers the possibility of understanding the existing knowledge of contemporary astronomy in a precise, simple, and assessable way.
Title: Astronomy. Guide to the Night Sky
Author: Robert Burnham, Alan Dyer, Jeff Kanipe
Translation: Dulcinea Otero-Piñeiro
Publisher: Weldon Owen Pty. Limited
Year: 2001
ISBN: 84-8076-413-9
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
This 432-page book is divided into two parts. The first is an introduction to astronomy, in which the author begins with a brief explanation of the cosmos and the expansion of the universe.
Title: Astronomy in Mexico
Author: Julieta Fierro
Editor: Lectorum
Year: 2001
ISBN: 968-5270-55-4
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
This book tries to explain the history of astronomy in Mexico. It begins with the life of the stars and then narrates on the study of the Cosmos during the times of ancient cultures. Finally, it explains the latest visions of the Universe that modern astronomers hold.
Title: Astronomy
Author: Álvaro Gimérez Cañete & Alberto Castro Tirado
Publisher: Equipo Sirius S.A.
Year: 1998
ISBN: 84-86639-83-2
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
In six chapters and 268 pages, this easy to understand book informs the reader about the astronomy that is not known to people. It introduces readers to one of the branches of modern astrophysics, through the exploration of X-rays.
Title: The Cambridge Star Atlas
Author: Wil Tirion
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2001 (Third Edition)
ISBN: 521-80084-6
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
This book contains 90 pages with color maps that help the reader learn everything that an amateur astronomer needs to know about the universe.
Title: From Bacteria to Mankind: Evolution
Author: Daniel Piñero
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 2002 (Third Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-6621-6 (Third Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-5765-9 (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-2540-4 (First Edition)
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
In this book of 113 pages, the author takes the reader from the very beginnings of life on earth to the origin and evolution of mankind, with the purpose of better understanding Darwin’s theory of the origin of species.
Title: Come Down From My Electronic Cloud
Author: Plinio Sosa Fernández
Publisher: ADN Editorial, S.A. of C.V.
Year: 1997 First Edition
ISBN: 968-6849-20-3
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
This book is an introduction to chemistry. It contains 142 pages in 9 chapters and many easy to understand black and white illustrations.
Title: The Virtual Kiss
Author: Juan Tonda Mazón
Publisher: ADN Editorial, S.A. of C.V
Year: 1999 First Edition
ISBN: 968-6849-26-2
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
This book contains 103 pages over five chapters that narrate the history of one of the most important discoveries of this century: the laser beam. The first ruby laser was invented by Theodore H. Maiman.
Title: Big Bang: The History of the Universe
Author: Heather Couper & Nigel Henbest
Translator: Ignacio Fernández Bayo
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Limited
Year: 1997
ISBN: 970-656-045-9
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
This 45-page book teaches the reader about the origin of the universe in easy to follow language and with colorful images.
Title: Niels Bohr: Scientist, Philosopher, and Humanist
Author: Leopoldo García-Colín S., Marcos Mazari, Marcos Moshnisky, et. al.
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 1997 (Second edition)
ISBN: 968-16-5373-4
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
This 129-page book is divided into four parts. In the first part the authors talk about physics between 1900 and 1913, and the paradoxes that Bohr had to face in classical and modern physics...
More about Niels Bohr: Scientist, Philosopher, and Humanist.
Title: Elements Of Differential And Integral Calculus
Author: Granville
Translator: Steven T. Byngton
Publisher: Limusa
Year: 2003 (35th edition)
ISBN: 968-16-1178-X
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
This book has 686 pages in 27 chapters, starting with a summary of formulas with the purpose of making the student review algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and the Greek alphabet.
Title: Heat And Movement
Author: Magdalena Ruis de Riepen & C. Mauricio Castro—Acuña
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 1998 (Third Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-5817-5 (Third Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-4814-5 (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-3147-1 (First Edition)
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
In this 106-page book the authors try to extend the benefits of scientific culture to society.
Title: The Chemical House
Author: José Antonio y Rodrigo Chamizo
Publisher: ADN Editorial, S.A. of C.V
Year: 1998 First Edition
ISBN: 968-6849-25-4
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
With an easy to understand, non-technical language, the authors show the reader how the 109 atoms in all their possible combinations construct the universe.
Title: Catalysts, The Philosophical Stone of the 20th Century?
Author: Sergio Fuentes y Gabriela Díaz
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 2001 (Second Edition, Second reprint)
ISBN: 968-16-5233-9
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
This book has 93 pages, in which the authors describe catalysts and how they work by showing their everyday uses.
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Title: With the Sky in Our Pockets. Astronomy through History
Author: Eduardo Averbuj
Publisher: De la Torre
Year: 2000 (Third Edition)
ISBN: 84-7960-274-0
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
This book narrates a brief story about a few men that tried to comprehend our role and size in the cosmos.
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Title: The Science of Chaos
Author: Isaac Schifter
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 2001 (Second Edition, first reprint)
ISBN: 968-16-6327-6 (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-4438-7 (First Edition)
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
In this 106-page book the author explains chaos, why it exists, how it intervenes in our everyday life, the myths about it, and its consequences.
Title: How Does a Cell Work?
Author: Antonio Peña
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 2001 (Second edition, first reprint)
ISBN: 968-16-6322-5 (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-4365-8 (First Edition)
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
This 121-page book brings the reader into the amazing world of cells, their specialization, structure, the way in which their extraordinary functions are organized in such a small space...
Title: How Plants Live
Author: Carlos Vázquez Yanes
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 2001 (Second edition, first reprint)
ISBN: 968-16-5219-3-A (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-2711-3 (First Edition)
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
In this 94-page book, the author talks about the relationships between plants and their environment and the way in which they grow and evolve in diverse climates.
Title: The Cosmos, Our Unknown Home. Simple Theories
Author: Félix Ramírez Ramos
Publisher: Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Year: 2001
ISBN: 970-18-6215-5
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
In nine chapters and 151 pages, this book introduces in a simple manner the principal concepts in the study of the cosmos, including many simple modern and ancient theories.
Title: Cosmos
Author: Carl Sagan
Translator: Miquel Muntaner & M.ª del Mar Moya Tasis
Publisher: Planeta
Year: 2002 (20th Edition)
ISBN: 84-08-02042-0
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
This book is based on a 13-chapter program that professor Carl Sagan created for television. Cosmos talks about science in the broadest human context and explains how science and civilization develop together.
Title: Tales of the Year 2000
Author: Various Authors
Translator: María Durante
Publisher: Nathans
Year: 1999 (First Edition)
ISBN: 84-667-1395-6
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
Our ancestors have always been fascinated by the sky and for many years we have tried to understand the phenomena we see through stories. Astronomy is full of myths told many years ago. In this book, the reader will read many of the myths that were believed to occur in the year 2000.
Title: Quantum Stories
Author: Sergio De Régules Ruiz-Funes
Publisher: CONACULTA
Year: 2000 First Edition
ISBN: 970-18-4431-9
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
This book teaches the reader, in a simple and humorous way, the history and fundamental concepts of one of the most important theories of this century - quantum mechanics.
Title: The Development of Technology
Author: Fernando Alba Andrade
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 2000 (Second Edition, Fourth Reprint)
ISBN: 968-16-5266-5
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
In this 159-page book, the author explains space, time, mechanics, optics, electricity, magnetism, communications, computers, new materials, and energy in an enjoyable narrative about human history.
Title: The Discovery of the Universe
Author: Shaen Hacyan
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 2001 (Second edition, fourth reprint)
ISBN: 968-16-5922-8 (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-2393-2 (First Edition)
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
The author started this book because of his curiosity about what the universe is, whether it had a beginning or will have an end, what are its borders, and what is beyond those borders.
Title: Astronomy Dictionary
Author: Ian Ridpath
Translator: Alejandro Ibarra Sixto
Publisher: Complutense
Year: 1998
ISBN: 84-89784-70-1
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School and up
This dictionary is up to date and was written by a group of experts that worked to create a tool for students, teachers, amateur astronomers, etc.
Title: Physics Dictionary
Author: Oxford—Complutense
Translator: Alejandro Ibarra Sixto
Publisher: Complutense
Year: 1998
ISBN: 84-89784-55-8
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School and up
This dictionary is a guide for junior high school to college students.
Title: Chemistry Dictionary
Author: Oxford—Complutense
Translator: Inmaculada Julián, Regino Sáez y Susana Martínez
Publisher: Complutense
Year: 1998
ISBN: 84-89784-72-8
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School and up
This dictionary is an excellent reference for students of chemistry from junior high school.
Title: The Cosmos in the Palm of Our Hands
Author: Manuel Lozano Leyva
Publisher: Arena Abierta/Mondadori
Year: 2002
ISBN: 84-397-0939-0
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
In eleven chapters the author takes the reader through an easy and logical explanation of the basic concepts of quantum mechanics, nuclear physics, and general relativity, in order for the reader to understand better the origin and structure of the universe, the birth, life, and death of stars, the formation of the sun and its planets, and the origin of life.
Title: Electromagnetism. From Science to Technology
Author: Elizer Braun
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 2001 (Second edition, first reprint)
ISBN: 968-16-5700-4 (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-3742-9 (First Edition)
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
In this 159-page book the author provides a simple summary of the great importance of electricity, which gave birth to the electromagnet, rudimentary batteries, telegraph, telephone, and after the discovery of Hertz waves, communication through radio, television (with the aid of vacuum tubes such as bulbs), computers, laser, and possibly photonics, which according to the author is the future of electromagnetism.
Title: Encounter With A Star
Author: Silvia Bravo
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 2001 (Second Edition, Third Reprint)
ISBN: 968-16-5262-2 (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-2668-0 (First Edition)
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
In this 141-page book, the author offers an entertaining, simple, and clear narrative about the importance that the Sun has always had for humanity and the knowledge that we have about it nowadays...
Title: Energy and Life. Bioenergetics
Author: Antonio Peña and Georges Dreyfus
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 2001 (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-5229-0 (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-3479-9 (First Edition)
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
This little 98-page book offers a complete view of the energy that living beings need for their survival. In order to do that, the authors start the book with an explanation of basic concepts such as the different sources of energy, the basic chemical elements of a living organism, and the different ways those organisms have developed to catch energy.
Title: The Staircase of the Universe
Author: Carlos Chimal
Publisher: ADN Editorial, S.A. of C.V.
Year: 1996 First Edition
ISBN: 968-6849-08-4
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
In this book the reader will learn how the microcosmic physics is an important part in understanding the universe. This book contains 143 pages in 8 chapters and many illustrations in black and white.
Title: A Book From the New York Public Library. Amazing Space
Author: Ann-Jeanette Campbell
Translator: Magdalena Senestrari
Publisher: The New York Public Library and The Stonesong Press, Inc.
Year: 1997
ISBN: 950-04-1968-8
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
This book offers answers to the most-asked questions in astronomy. This book uses a simple format of questions and answers, accompanied by illustrations in black and white to help the reader understand many of the basic concepts of astronomy.
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Title: Space
Author: Alejandro Estallo
Publisher: Molino
Collection: Miniguía
Year: 2001 (Second reprint revised and updated)
ISBN: 968-766-859-8
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
This 160-page pocket-sized miniguide contains a detailed description of space.
Title: This is Chaos
Author: Edgar Gómez Marín
Publisher: ADN Editorial, S.A. of C.V.
Year: 1995 First Edition
ISBN: 968-6849-07-6
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
This book is about the order that exists in apparently disordered systems. In 126 pages over 6 chapters, with simple illustrations in black and white, the author covers the mathematical theory of chaos by using the love story of a young couple.
Title: Binary Interactive Stars
Author: Juan Echevarría
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 2002 (Third Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-6600-3 (Third Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-5239-8 (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-2712-1 (First Edition)
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
This book has 119 pages and is divided into three parts. In the first part, the author talks about stellar evolution and distances...
Title: The Stars and Planets
Author: Joachim Ekrutt
Translator: Fernando Martinez de Quirós
Publisher: Everest, S.A.
Year: 1998
ISBN: 84-241-2746-3
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
This easy to understand book explains to the reader how to identify simple constellations. Included in this book are seventy-two helpful maps. In addition to this, the reader will find colorful tables that have dates on solar and lunar eclipses for the next ten years, thirty color photographs of the universe and a hundred and seventy-five sidereal maps.
Title: Collins Pocket Guide Stars and Planets
Author: Ian Ridpath
Translator: Dulcinea Otero-Piñeiro
Publisher: Omega
Year: 2002 (Third Edition)
ISBN: 84-282-1314-3
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
This book full of colorful pictures is divided into two parts, the first in which the author introduces the reader to observation of the night sky and shows the difference between the northern and southern hemisphere skies.
Title: Stars and Planets
Author: Antonín Rükl
Translation: Luis Manuel López de Bulnes
Publisher: Aventinum Nakladatelství
Year: 1990 (First Edition)
ISBN: 84-305-7018-7
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
The purpose of this instructive atlas is to introduce the reader to a selection of graphic representations of objects in our solar system. In the beginning and at the end of each chapter, there are pages that clear up possible misconceptions. All of the illustrations in this book are drawn by hand and help facilitate a better understanding.
Title: Las estrellas (The Stars)
Author: Julieta Fierro
Editor: Tercer Milenio—Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes
Year: 1999
ISBN: 970-18-3494-1
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
This book provides to the reader a brief overview of astronomy. It is part of the Third Millennium Culture Collection for general public.
Title: The Evolution of Life from Outer Space
Author: Fred Hoyle & N.C. Wickramasinghe
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Year: 1992
ISBN: 968-16-3551-5
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
In this 191-page book the authors try to change the idea that carbon-based life originated only on Earth.
Title: Extra Terrestrials
Author: Julieta Fierro
Editor: Lectorum
Year: 2000
ISBN: 968-5270-10-4
Suggested reader’s academic level: 5th or 6th grade
This book is 177 pages long and is written in simple Spanish. It has various examples, images, and activities for the reader. The author’s purpose is to answer the following questions: When, where, why and how life comes to be? What is the relationship between living beings and the Universe?
Title: The Family of the Sun
Author: Julieta Fierro & Miguel Ángel Herrera
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica, S.A. De C.V.
Year: 1997
ISBN: 968-16-5372-6
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
In four chapters and 177 pages, this book uses many illustrations in black and white to teach the readers about the marvelous discoveries of the solar system.
Title: Fluids, Last Name Of Liquids And Gasses
Author: Ramón Peralta-Fabi
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 2001 (Second edition, first reprint)
ISBN: 968-16-6324-1 (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-4215-5 (First Edition)
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
In this 151-page book the author explains in very simple language the nature of fluids, how they are described in science, their history, and how they are found in galaxies, hurricanes, and drainages. He also explains turbulence and how is it created, and superfluids.
Title: Frontiers of the Universe
Compiled by: Manuel Peimbert
Editor: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Year: 2000
ISBN: 968-16-6103-6
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior and Senior High School
This book contains nine original essays on basic astronomy. The topics cover the study of the nearest regions of the Universe to the farthest. At the end of each essay, there is a section that explains related or complementary subjects. These are illustrated with images taken by some of the most advanced telescopes in the world.
Title: Vital Cosmic Force
Author: Fred Hoyle & N.C. Wickramasinghe
Translator: Agustín Barcena
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Year: 1992
ISBN: 968-16-3881-6
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
In this 153-page book the authors expose their theory in which they explain that bacteria and viruses carried on comets fell onto our planet, and through complex biochemical systems set the environment for the progressive evolution of the animal kingdom on Earth.
Title: Genesis and Transfiguration of Stars
Author: Joaquín Bohigas
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 2002 (Third Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-6598-8 (Third Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-5263-0 (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-3440-3 (First Edition)
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
In this 137-page book the author explains to the reader the path that the stars follow through their lives, from the way in which they are formed and born to their inevitable death, setting the stage for new generations.
Title: Genetics. The Continuity of Life
Author: Ana Barahona and Daniel Piñero
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 2002 (Third Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-6601-1 (Third Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-6321-7 (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-4534-0 (First Edition)
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
This 147-page book is an introduction to genetics. The authors explain with easy and clear language what is studied in this branch of biology...
Title: The Great Party of the Universe
Author: Félix Moreno & Juan Ignacio Medina
Publisher: SM
Year: 2000
ISBN: 84-348-7154-8
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
In 125 pages, with images in black and white, this fun book shows the reader in an easy to follow manner why astronauts see the sky black, why is the Sun burning out, where the universe ends, what is a galaxy, what is the Big Bang theory and many other widely-asked questions.
Title: The Great Illusion III. Gravitational Waves
Author: Jorge Flores Valdés
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 1997 (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-5236-3-1
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
In this book of 110 pages the author explains in a brief and clear way Weber’s experiment, Einsteins’s relativity, the ideas of the Greek, the processes of Galileo, Newton’s laws, the evolution of mechanics, light, electromagnetism, etc.
Title: Guide for Explorers of the Sky: Atlas of the Deep Sky with 50 maps of the Milenium Star Atlas, 96 celestial maps of the northern and southern hemisphere, and 150 color photographs.
Author: Vicente Aupí
Publisher: Omega
Year: 2003
ISBN: 84-282-1286-4
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
This book is a complete guide of what we can see in the sky with the naked eye and what we can see with ground and space telescopes, like the Hubble telescope.
Title: A Brief History of the Universe
Author: Ricardo Moreno
Publisher: Edition Rialp, S.A.
Year: 1998
ISBN: 84-321-3202-0
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
Ricardo Moreno takes you inside the history of the universe, beginning with the contributions of Galileo, Kepler and Newton, and later to the theories of cosmology. His non-technical language makes the book easy to follow and understand.
Title: The Gobsmacking Galaxy
Author: Kjaartan Poskitt
Translator: Conchita Peraire del Molino
Publisher: Scholastic Publications Ltd.
Year: 1997
ISBN: 84-272-2055-3
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
In 159 pages this book shows the reader many interesting facts about astronomy.
Title: The Tracks of the Atom
Author: Horacio García Fenández
Publisher: CONACULTA
Year: 2000 First Edition
ISBN: 970-18-4429-7
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
This book is a literary self-portrait for those that would have wanted to be seated next to a famous scientist. The reader will learn about the famous Greek philosophers, the atomic model, the invention of the atomic bomb by Julio Vente, Boyle’s ideas on the nature of matter, and the ideas of Del Río on chemistry and the atom.
Title: Introduction to Astronomy
Author: J.L. Fuentes Yagüe
Publisher: Mundi-Prensa
Year: 1999
ISBN: 84-7114-838-2
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
This book discusses many of the fundamental concepts in astronomy including the solar system, the characteristics of the stars and galaxies, and the theory of the formation of the universe. It is designed for people that want to learn about astronomy or those that are simply curious.
Title: Young Astronomers. Guide for the Young Amateur Astronomer
Author: Harry Ford
Translation: Pep Verger
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd.
Year: 1998 (First Edition)
ISBN: 84-272-4971-3
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
This book is an introduction to the basic concepts of astronomy. It contains safe and easy to follow activities that the reader can do while learning. The book will introduce the reader to the solar system, the characteristics of the planets, the luminosity of the stars and to many other interesting concepts.
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Title: Light
Author: Ana María Cetto
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 2000 (Second edition, first reprint)
ISBN: 968-16-5921-X (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-2565-X (First Edition)
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
This 129-page book is an invitation to penetrate the extraordinary and mysterious world of light and optical phenomena.
Title: Manual of the Skies and its Myths
Author: Emma Harding
Translator: Georg Massanés
Publisher: Blume
Year: 1998
ISBN: 84-8076-354-3
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
This book consist of 176 pages in which the author simply describes how to find the constellations and their Greek and Chinese myths.
Title: Practical Manual for the Amateur Astronomer
Author: José María Oliver
Publisher: De Vecchi, S.A.
Year: 1998
ISBN: 84-315-0043-3
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School/High School
This magnificent book is a great guide that will help you understand the changes that occurs in our sky. It will help you find the planets, stars and constellations. It also explores the movement of planets and their satellites.
Title: Einstein’s Apple
Author: Francisco Noreña Villarías
Publisher: ADN Editorial, S.A. of C.V.
Year: 1997 First Edition
ISBN: 968-6849-15-7
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
In 135 pages divided into five chapters, this book makes reference to Albert Einstein, creator of the special and general theories of relativity. It uses many black and white illustrations to explain the subject in an easy to understand manner.
Title: From the Vapor Machine to Absolute Zero (Heat and Entropy)
Author: Leopoldo García-Colín S.
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 2000 (Second Edition, Third Reprint)
ISBN: 968-16-5371-8 (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-2392-4 (First Edition)
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
In this 147-page book the author explains in simple language the processes that transform one type of energy into another. Examples include the transformation of electricity into light in a lamp and the transformation of the chemical energy in gasoline into the movement of a car.
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Title: Dark Matter in the Universe
Author: Arcadio Poveda and Miguel Angel Herrera
Publisher: CONACYT and Equipo SIRIUS
Year: 1992
ISBN: 84-86639-52-2
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
This 122-page book talks in a simple language about the matter that astronomers cannot see but know exists because of the behavior of the matter that is visible.
Title: Man’s Cosmic Home
Author: Marco Arturo Moreno Corral
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 1997
ISBN: 968-16-5421-8
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
In this 278-page book the author presents to the reader a very complete view of astronomy from the ancient times in which we first asked what is the place of the earth in the universe and what does the universe look like to our current astronomy.
Title: From the Quantum World to the Expanding Universe
Author: Shaen Hacyan
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 2002 (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-6604-6 (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-4435-2 (First Edition)
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
In 107 pages, the author explains in simple language how in the 20th century quantum mechanics and relativity (the fundamental theories of modern physics) radically combined ideas about energy and matter, force, time, and space.
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Title: The World of Stars
Author: José Luis Comellas
Publisher: Equipo SIRIUS
Year: 1997
ISBN: 84-86639-92-1
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
This 213-page book provides a very complete and simple description of the stars. The author explains magnitudes of stars, distances in the sky, their effects (absolute magnitudes), the colors of stars...
Title: Us in the Universe
Author: Josep María Trigo I Rodríguez
Translator: Xúlio Ricardo Trigo I Rodríguez
Publisher: Complutense
Year: 2001
ISBN: 84-7491-617-8
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
This book is part of the collection La Mirada de la Ciencia (The Look of Science). It is divided into two parts, the first with four chapters in which the author talks about astronomy, the solar system in our galaxy, life in the universe, and the forces that constitute it.
Title: Our Home In Space
Author: José Francisco Valdés
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science from Mexico
Year: 1988
ISBN: 968-16-2919-1
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
The purpose of the 116-page Our Home In Space is to encourage the development of research and popular knowledge of earth science.
Title: The Nine Numbers of the Cosmos
Author: Michael Rowan-Robinson
Translation: Alejandro Ibarra
Publisher: Oxford University
Year: 1999 (First Edition)
ISBN: 84-7491-616-X
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
Michael Rowan-Robinson explains the nine principles of cosmology, in ten chapters and 219 pages, with easy to follow black and white illustrations. He begins with the basic knowledge, such as that we exist and that we do not live in a special place.
Title: Observing the Sky. A Practical Course of Astronomy
Author: Grupo Astrófilo Lariano
Publisher: De Vencchi
Year: 2002
ISBN: 84-315-2629-7
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
This book has 254 pages and is divided into two parts, the first about the theory and practice of astronomical observation. Here the author talks about the characteristics of each one of the planets of our solar system, the moon, the sun, the galaxy, and the comets...
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Title: A Look at Matter
Author: Guillermo Aguilar Sahagún, Salvador Cruz Jiménez y Jorge Flores Valdés
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 2000 (Second Edition, Second Reprint)
ISBN: 968-16-5267-3
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
This 170-pages book tries to briefly explain the current state of physics in language that is as simple and non-technical as possible.
Title: Traditional And Modern Optics
Author: Daniel Malacara
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 2002 (Third Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-6618-6 (Third Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-5226-6 (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-3240-0 (First Edition)
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
This book has 126 pages and it is written according to the author, “in the most descriptive and simple possible way, with the purpose of making it accessible to all types of readers. If this book awakens an interest and admiration for optics in at least some young people, then the author could consider his aspiration in writing this book to be satisfied.”
Title: The Origin of the Solar System
Author: Josep Maria Trigo I Rodríguez
Translation: Xúlio Trigo I Rodríguez
Publisher: Complutense, S.A.
Year: 2001
ISBN: 84-7491-619-4
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
As the title indicates, this book clearly and briefly explains the origin of the solar system, its location in our galaxy, the origin of the chemical elements and diversity, the formation of terrestrial and giant gaseous planets, the role of comets, asteroids and meteorites in the study of the evolution of the solar system, other planetary systems in our galaxy, and the habitability of other worlds.
Title: The Origin of the Universe
Author: Miguel Ángel Herrera Andrade
Publisher: CONACULTA
Year: 1999 First Edition
ISBN: 970-18-3230-2
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
In 155 pages over seven chapters, the author teaches the reader what we know today about the birth of the cosmos. The reader will learn about the famous scientists who made contributions in astronomy and physics.
Title: Solar Gold And Other Sources Of Energy
Author: Juan Tonda
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 2000 (Second Edition, First Reprint)
ISBN: 968-16-5706-3 (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-4268-4 (First Edition)
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
This 150-page book uses anecdotes to relate the history of energy, the different types of energy that we use nowadays, the places where this energy is obtained in distinct forms, and the naive way in which we all use it everyday.
Title: A Walk Through the Heavens
Author: Milton D. Heifetz and Will Tirion
Translator: Julieta Bermejo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2002 (Third Edition)
ISBN: 0-521-62513-0
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
This is a book that in four chapters guides the reader through the stars, constellations, and their legends in a simple and detailed way. It contains maps and tables that will helps to find the constellations with the naked eye.
Title: Mathematical and Astronomical Thought in Pre-Columbian Mexico
Author: Guillermo Garcés Contreras
Publisher: Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Year: 1995
ISBN: 968-29-7871-8
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
This book contains 103 pages over five chapters that narrate the history of one This 360-page book is a very complete and simple description of how mathematics and astronomy were conceived in the time of the Mayan and other cultures. No advanced knowledge of mathematics or astronomy is required in order to enjoy the book, which is divided into three parts...
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Title: Remote Sensing. Our Eyes In Space
Author: Jorge Lira
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 1997 (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-5230-4
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
This 150-page book provides a detailed analysis of all aspects of a new science called remote sensing.
Title: Blue Planet, Gray Planet
Author: Mónica Lavín
Publisher: ADN Editorial, S.A. of C.V.
Year: 1997 First Edition
ISBN: 968-6849-21-1
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
This book talks about pollution, a worry to all of those who inhabit this planet. The author shows the reader the effects that pollution has on Earth, using many illustrations in 188 pages and 13 chapters.
Title: The Planets
Author: David McNab y James Younger
Translator: Leopaldo de Miguel
Publisher: Gedisa Editorial, S.A.
Year: 1999
ISBN: 84-7432-765-2
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
In eight chapters with colorful images this book introduces the beauty of astronomy. The reader will learn about the solar system, the moon, stars, atmospheres, the origin of rocks, volcanoes, remains of supernovas, high-energy particles, the Milky Way and its structure, elliptical and spiral galaxies, the history of the universe, and many more interesting facts.
Title: Chemistry and the Kitchen
Author: José Luis Córdova Frunz
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 2003 (Third Edition, First Reprint)
ISBN: 968-16-6608-9 (Third Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-5402-1 (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-3568-X (First Edition)
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
In this book of 151 pages, the author tries to create in the reader a sense of curiosity for chemistry through explaining that scientific knowledge and common knowledge are very closely related.
Title: Chemistry, Universe, Earth, and Life
Author: Alfonso Romo de Vivar
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 2003 (Third Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-6799-9 (Third Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-6126-5 (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-2705-9 (First Edition)
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
In this book of 160 pages, the author explains the importance of the chemical reactions through the Earth’s, humanity’s, and the universe’s history.
Title: Radioactivity
Author: Silvia Bulbulian
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 2001 (Second Edition, first reprint)
ISBN: 968-16-5814-0 (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-2651-6 (First Edition)
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
This book has 121 pages and according to the author its purpose is to “show how a series of experiments that took place around the end of the 19th century and that could have passed without anybody noticing them, generated a series of discoveries that took the world in less than half a century, to the most outstanding scientific era in history.”
Title: Stories of Science
Author: Ana María Sánchez Mora
Publisher: ADN Editorial, S.A. of C.V
Year: 1996 First Edition
ISBN: 968-6849-11-4
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
This book is very entertaining to read because the reader will learn important information about science in a simple and humorous language.
Title: What Do We Know About the Universe?
Author: Juan Perez Mercader
Publisher: DeBOLSILLO
Year: 2001
ISBN: 84-8450-496-4
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
In this 253-page book the author takes the reader by the hand through 11 chapters in which he tries to explain what is the universe, how it formed, and how it works. In order to do this the author puts the reader in context with respect to the sizes, distances, and space-time of our universe.
Title: Schrödinger: Creator Of Wave Mechanics
Author: Roberto Jiménez
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 2001 (Second edition)
ISBN: 968-16-6373-X (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-3466-7 (First Edition)
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
This 93-page book is a compilation of papers written by Mexican scientists on the life and work of the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger.
Title: The Sun And The Earth. A Stormy Relationship
Author: Javier A. Otaola, Blanca Mendoza, and Ramón Pérez
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 2000 (Second Edition, First Reprint)
ISBN: 968-16-5925-2 (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-3741-0 (First Edition)
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
In this 119-page book the authors talk about the relationship between the earth and the sun, which involves the heliosphere, magnetosphere, ionosphere, terrestrial atmosphere, the interconnections between the diverse regions in the space between the celestial bodies, and the mechanisms through which energy is transferred inside the system.
Title: Superconductors
Author: Luis Fernando Magaña Solís
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 2000 (Second Edition, Second Reprint)
ISBN: 968-16-5329-7
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
This 123-page book is about superconductivity, a state of matter that does not present any kind of electrical resistance, and how it is obtained.
Title: The Third Planet. Age, Structure, and Composition of Earth
Author: Juan Manuel Espíndola
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 2002 (Third Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-6599-6 (Third Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-5237-1 (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-3040-8 (First Edition)
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
This 125-page book is divided into two parts. In the first part the author talks about the way in which scientists have estimated the age of Earth through radioactivity and the study of meteors and moon rocks...
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Title: Weather and Climate
Author: Ma. Millán
Publisher: Molino
Collection: Miniguía
Year: 2001 (Second reprint revised and updated)
ISBN: 968-766-862-8
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
This 160-page pocket-sized miniguide contains a simple, but detailed description full of images of everyday meteorological phenomena that affect the weatherand determine the climate. It helps us understand the characteristics of a determined place as well as its evolution through out the year and through history.
Title: Earth, an active planet
Author: Various
Publisher:
Year:
ISBN: 84-667-1395-6
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
This book describes some amazing facts about the Earth in ninety-five pages. It is divided into three sections: a living planet, rocks and minerals, and the atmosphere and climates. The book contains many color photos, maps, and diagrams with many informative easy to follow instructions.
Title: Earth
Author: Alejandro Estallo
Publisher: Molino
Collection: Miniguía
Year: 1999 (first reprint)
ISBN: 968-7668-61-X
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
This 160-page pocket-sized mini-guide contains a detailed description of the earth.
Title: Light Traps
Author: Carlos Ruiz Mejía
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 2000 (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-5221-5-1
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
According to the author, this 204-page book explains what happens in the atoms of materials that work as light traps. It involves a discussion about the nature of light, of crystalline matter, and the interaction between light and matter. The title of the book comes from the very well known phenomenon of phosphorescence.
Title: Disturbing the Universe
Author: Freeman Dyson
Translator: Jenny Kesnikoff and Juan José Utrilla
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica and CONACYT
Year: 1983
ISBN: 969-16-1293-0
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
This 316-page book is a summary of 50 years of the author’s life and work. Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer, Freeman Dyson makes reflects on his life and his interest in biology and genetics.
Title: Trigonometry
Author: Thompson
Translator: Ricardo Ortíz Vázquez
Publisher: Limusa
Collection: Math At Everyone’s Reach
Year: 1993 (second reprint)
ISBN: 968-16-4270-7
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
This book covers trigonometry as an area that follows algebra and geometry, so for the reader that already has knowledge of these areas, the language used in this book is simple and even self-teaching.
Title: The Universe in the Third Millennium
Author: R. Alemán, F. Anguita, M. Barceló, X. Barçons, et al
Publisher: Equipo Sirius S.A.
Year: 2000
ISBN: 84-95495-02-3
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
This book promotes science literacy. It is a compilation of various experts in astronomy.
Title: The Universe in a Nutshell
Author: Stephen Hawking
Translator: David Jou
Publisher: Crítica/Planeta
Year: 2003 (8th Edition)
ISBN: 84-8432-293-9
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
With his peculiar enthusiasm, professor Hawkings invites the reader to accompany him on a colossal voyage through space and time...
Title: Essential Science: The Expanding Universe
Author: Mark Garlick
Translator: Valerian Stoopen Barois
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Limited, a Penguin Company
Year: 2002
ISBN: 0-7513-3714-5
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
“Mark A. Garlick creates a history map of the expanding universe, from is explosive beginning to the formation of stars, galaxies and planets, and the origin of life.”
Title: An Expanding Universe
Author: Luis F. Rodríguez
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 2002 (Third Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-6510-4 (Third Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-5223-1 (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-1198-2 (First Edition)
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
This 110-page book is a clear and simple introduction to the world of astronomy. The author talks about the earth, the sun, the birth of a star, the three possible deaths of a star, the Milky Way and other galaxies, the expanding universe...
Title: The Universe
Author: Various
Publisher: Larousse
Year: 1997
ISBN: 84-8016-704-1
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
This book includes many color photos, drawings and diagrams that are accompanied with a plethora of information about the universe and famous astronomers. The book is divided into four parts: observation of the sky, the Solar System, stars and galaxies, and the exploration of space.
Title: The Universe
Author: Christopher Oxlade
Translator: María de la Serna
Publisher: CITEM
Year: 2001
ISBN: 950-11-1541-X
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
This book of 24 pages has brief and concrete information about maps and theories of the open and closed universe, the sun, the life of a star, etc.
Title: The Universe at Your Fingertips
Publisher: Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High and High School
A Collection of Hands-on Astronomy Activities in Spanish from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
Title: The Universe
Author: Julieta Fierro
Editor: Tercer Milenio—Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes
Year: 1997
ISBN: 970-18-0240-3
Suggested reader’s academic level: : Junior High School
This book addresses the organization, composition, proportions, shape, origins, and probable destiny of the Universe through simple definitions and examples. It is 63 pages long and is accessible to all ages. It is part of the Third Millenium Culture Collection.
Title: Vacuum And Its Applications
Author: Laura Talavera and Mario Flores
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science from Mexico
Year: 1998 (Second Reprint)
ISBN: 968-16-4734-3
Suggested reader’s academic level: High School
In this 85-page book the authors explain in a simple, clear way relationships between humans and vacuum, including the ways to create a vacuum and the many applications of vacuums in everyday life, the laboratory, and industry.
Title: Extraterrestrial Life
Author: Miguel Ángel Herrera
Publisher: Tercer Milenio
Year: 1999
ISBN: 970-18-2327-3
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
In this 63-page book the author answers in a brief and clear way questions such as “What fantasies did extraterrestrial life provoke in our ancestors? What is the opinion of the modern man on this theme? Have the ideas changed with time? What is the real possibility that life exists elsewhere? What do scientists think about the topic?”.
Title: ...And they landed on the moon. From Fiction to Reality
Author: Hergé, Bob de Moor
Translation: Rafael Clemente
Publisher: Exclusivity Casterman
Year: 1985 (1st Edition)
ISBN: 84-261-319-8
Suggested reader’s academic level: Junior High School
This book is very easy to understand. The book shows us how Hergé invented with his great talent as a narrator, a story with many realistic aspects. The book contains 41 pages, which introduces us to the fiction and reality of landing on the Moon.
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Advanced (College/University)
Title: Advanced Linear Algebra
Author: José Antonio de la Peña
Publisher: UNAM y Fondo de Cultura Económica
Year: 1996
ISBN: 968-16-5040-9
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This 195-page book “is directed at students of science or engineering that have taken their first elementary course of linear algebra. It can be used as a text book for a semester course that emphasizes the applications of calculus”.
Title: Linear Algebra
Author: Stanley I. Grossman Translation: Marcia González Osuna
Publisher: McGraw Hill Interamericana
Year: 1996
ISBN: 970-10-0890-1
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This 634-page book intends to teach linear algebra to students of all disciplines without them needing to have prior knowledge of calculus.
Title: Algebra
Author: Raymond Barnett, Michael Ziegler, and Karl Byleen Translation: Javier León Cárdenas
Publisher: McGraw Hill Interamericana
Year: 2000
ISBN: 970-10-2967-4
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This 657-page book “presents a totally student-oriented focus. Because of this and in order to facilitate the comprehension of this material... it presents more than 270 examples solved step by step and more than 4000 carefully selected problems”.
Title: Algebra Everywhere
Author: José Antonio de la Peña
Collection: Science for Everyone
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Year: 1999
ISBN: 968-16-6052-8
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This 195-page book has the purpose of “showing the reader that mathematics are beautiful, useful, and exciting.
Title: Algebra and Trigonometry
Author: Dennis Zill and Jacqueline Dewar Translation: Gloria Ramírez Mariño and Yelka García Rodríguez
Publisher: McGraw Hill Interamericana
Year: 2000
ISBN: 958-41-0162-5
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This 657-page book is divided into twelve chapters in which the authors try to carry the student by the hand so that he or she can learn and understand: logic and sets of numbers, fundamental concepts of algebra, equations and inequalities...
Title: Breviary of Climatological Terms
Author: Arturo Carrillo Sánchez, Ma. Alejandra Sánchez Trejo
Publisher: Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo
Year: 2002
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This 69-page book covers concepts that “for the student of biology these are of great importance, since it opens the panorama of the relationships among biology and climatology, particularly the role of climatology in the relations of organisms with their environment and their consequences”.
Title: Differential and Integral Calculus
Author: Stefan Banach Translation: Alvar Noé Barra Zenil y Guillermos García Talavera
Publisher: Niriega Limusa
Year: 1996
ISBN: 968-18-3949-8
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This 386-page book was written as an introduction to differential and integral calculus. The book presents the most important theorems and the least complicated demonstrations of them, so that it will be easier for students to learn. The book is divided into 23 chapters...
—Fragment taken from the back of the book.
Title: Differential and Integral Calculus
Author: Aburto Barragán
Publisher: Niriega Limusa
Year: 1998
ISBN: 968-18-5555-8
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This 323-page book was written “especially as a didactic aid for the students of all areas of engineering, putting special emphasis on solving problems of integral and vector calculus of several variables.”
—Fragment taken from the back of the book.
Title: Today’s Earth Science
Author: Servando de la Cruz-Reyna
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Year: 1994
ISBN Number: 968-16-4363-1
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
“The intent of this book is to present a sample of some of the aspects of earth science that are presently being studied in the field.”
Title: Specialized Dictionary of Chemistry
Author: Arnoldo Ramírez Barco
Publisher: Norma Educativa
Year: 2001
ISBN Number: 958-04-0031-8
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
“The Dictionary of Chemistry of the collection the Key to Science responds to the questions and doubts in this area, at a university and professional educational level.”
Title: Collazo Dictionary English—Spanish of Informatics, Computing, and other subjects. Volumes I (A-R) and II (S-Z)
Author: Javier Collazo
Publisher: McGraw Hill Interamericana
Year: 1999
ISBN: 970-10-3828-7 (Complete Work)
ISBN: 970-10-3829-5 (Volume I)
ISBN: 970-10-3830-9 (Volume II)
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This work has two volumes which define more than 2500 words about boolean algebra, calculating, computer graphics, computers, minicomputers, electronica, satellite communications, internet...
Title: Encyclopedic Dictionary of Chemistry
Author: Jacques Angenault
Publisher: CECSA
Year: 1999
ISBN: 968-26-1313-2
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This dictionary has “2500 defined terms, 80 pages of tables and pictures and 200 biographies of chemists... For each term, it has various levels of detail, according to the needs for information”.
Title: Technical Dictionary, English—Spanish, Spanish —English
Author: F. Beigbeder Atienza
Publisher: Díaz de Santo
Year: 1995
ISBN: 84-7978-221-8
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This dictionary “covers an extensive technical terminology applied to fields such as civil engineering, electronics, information science... among others”.
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Title: Differential Equations of Physics
Author: España González Series: Mathematics
Collection: Textos Politecniscos
Publisher: Niriega Limusa
Year: 1998
ISBN: 968-18-5553-1
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This 111-page book has as the objective “to illustrate and explain in a detailed way, the evolution of the most representative physical concepts and to illustrate them in mathematical terms using differential equations.
Title: Differential Equations
Author: José Antonio de la Peña
Publisher: UNAM y Fondo de Cultura Económica
Year: 1996
ISBN: 968-16-5040-9
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This 297-page book contains 33 chapters that explain in a detailed way what are and how to solve differential equations.
Title: Exercices and Problems of Mathematical Analysis
Author: Picard
Translation: Guillermo García
Series: Mathematics
Collection: Textos Politecniscos
Publisher: Niriega Limusa
Year: 1999
ISBN: 968-18-5786-0
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This 171-page book, “contains themes on quadratures, differential equations, integral equations of Fred Holm and Voltera, as well as equations of second-order partial derivatives.”
Title: Exercises in electricity and magnetism
Author: Sterelkov, Eltsin, and Yakovlev
Publisher: Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Year: 1996
ISBN: 968-7724 58-7
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This 202-page book Polytechnic Institute. This collection has the purpose of producing less expensive textbooks that support the teaching and learning process.
Title: Physics. Volume 1
Author: Resnick, Holliday, and Krane Translation: Efrén Alatorre Miguel
Publisher: CECSA
Year: 2002
ISBN: 970-240257-3
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
“This it is the fifth edition of the classic book written by David Halliday and Robert Resnick... a text for introductory courses of physics based on calculus”.
Title: Physics for Science and Engineering. Volume 1
Author: Serway and Beichner Translation: Víctor Campos Olguín and Ana Elizabeth García Hernández
Publisher: McGraw Hill Interamericana
Year: 2000
ISBN: 970-10-3581-X
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This book has a CD-Rom that “covers the fundamental concepts of physics through simulations, animations and videos”. The explanations and demonstrations are clear so the solution of problems becomes very easy.
Title: Physics for Science and Engineering. Volume 11
Author: Serway and Beichner Translation: Víctor Campos Olguín and Ana Elizabeth García Hernández
Publisher: McGraw Hill Interamericana
Year: 2002
ISBN: 970-10-3582-8
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This book has a CD-Rom that “covers the fundamental concepts of physics through simulations, animations and videos”. The explanations and demonstrations are clear so the solution of problems becomes very easy.
Title: Physics. Concepts and Applications
Author: Tippens Translation: Ángel Carlos González Ruiz
Publisher: McGraw Hill Interamericana
Year: 2001
ISBN: 970-10-3514-3
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This 943-page book “was written for a physics course without calculus designed for students in technical or industrial careers or for those that desire a very clear introduction of the applications of the principles of this discipline.
Title: General Physics
Author: Frederick J. Bueche Translation: José Hernán Pérez Castellanos Serie: Schaum
Publisher: McGraw Hill Interamericana
Year: 2001
ISBN: 970-10-3455-4
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This 570-page book was written for a physics course that does not require calculus, but does require basic algebra, principles of trigonometry and a very small amount of vector analysis. There is a review of mathematics in the appendices, nevertheless “the concepts are developed in the corresponding theme”.
Title: Physics. Visual Ocean Atlas
Publisher: Oceano
ISBN: 84-494-1282-X
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This small encyclopedia can be a good tool for students who are required to take a basic course of physics without calculus.
Title: University Physics. Volume 1
Author: Sears, Zemansky, Young, and Freedman Translation: Roberto Escalona García
Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman
Year: 1998
ISBN: 968-444-277-7
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This 696-page book is the “result of two decades of investigation of the obstacles that students usually face when learning physics.
Title: General Physics
Author: Van Der Merwe Translation: Luis Gutiérrez Díez and Angel Gutiérrez Vázquez Serie: Schaum
Publisher: McGraw Hill Interamericana
Year: 1991
ISBN: 968-422-927-5
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
In this book of 276 pages, “each chapter establishes in a concise and clear form the definitions, principles and theorems, problems so much proposed as resolved are exposed in ordered form from smaller to greater difficulty degree, and comply the function of reviewing the exposed theory in each chapter”.
Title: Physical Chemistry
Author: Gilbert W. Castellan
Translator: María Eugenia Costas Basín y Carlos Amador Bedolla
Publisher: Pearson Educación
Year: 1998
ISBN Number: 968-444-316-1
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This 1045-page book has 35 chapters and contains black and white illustrations that complement the text, tables of group characteristics, thermodynamic chemical properties, answers to problems and an index.
Title: Stellar Formation
Compiler: Luis Felipe Rodríguez
Publisher: UNAM and Fondo de Cultura Económica
Year: 1996
ISBN: 968-16-4437-9
Suggested reader’s academic level: Science Teachers and/or College Students
This 330-page book gathers the work done during the courses given by the Institute of Astronomy of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in the First Mexican School of Astrophysics, in which students and researchers from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain, United States, and Venezuela participated.
Title: Principals of Physical Chemistry
Author: Samuel H. Maron & Carl F. Prutton
Translator: Manuel Aragonés A.
Publisher: Editorial Limusa, S.A. de C.V.
Year: 2003
ISBN Number: 968-18-0164-4
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This 803-page book has 21 chapters that contain black and white illustrations that complement the text. In the "pages, the student can learn, without great effort, the main laws and methods of physical chemistry and appreciate the most recent advances in this field."
Title: Fundamentals of Geology
Author: Reed Wicander, James S. Monroe
Translation: Enrique Palos
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
Year: 1999 (Second Edition)
ISBN: 0-534-54774-5
Suggested reader’s academic level: College/University
This book is designed for a first semester geology course at the university level. This second edition is easier to read because the text is written with a clear informal style. The students are introduced to geology, the system of the Earth, the tectonic plates, the Earth’s interior, the processes of terrain surface and to geological time.
Title: Fundamentals of Normalization and Metrology
Author: Vicente Martínez Llebrez
Publisher: Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Year: 1998
ISBN: 970-18-1883-0
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This 539-page book explains normalization, its organization, the national system of normalization, techniques and tendencies, normalization and the economy, basic metrological concepts, international system of units, measurements, and methods of measurement.
Title: Fundamentals of Heat Transfer
Author: Jaime Cervantes de Gortari Series: Scientific University Texts
Publisher: UNAM and Fondo de Cultura Económica
Year: 1999
ISBN: 968-16-5964-3
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This 583-page book was written “as a text book and as a reference book for those in the careers of physics, engineering (of all types), and architecture...
Title: Guide to the Universe
Author: José Luis Comellas
Publisher: Rialp, S.A.
Year: 1999 (6th Edition)
ISBN: 84-321-1976-8
Suggested reader’s academic level: College/University
This book contains what is necessary for readers to orient themselves when observing the sky. Containing many diagrams, maps, and charts, this book is an excellent guide for the amateur astronomer. It explains how to obtain the best observations through a telescope. A background in astronomy is required in order to understand some of the material in this book.
Title: History of Astronomy in Mexico
Compiler: Marco Arturo Moreno Corral
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 2001 (Second Edition and Reprint)
ISBN: 968-16-5769-1 (Third Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-4808-0 (Second Edition)
ISBN: 968-16-2391-6 (First Edition)
Suggested reader’s academic level: Science Teachers and/or College Students
This 255 page book is divided into 12 chapters in which the authors tell us how the vision of astronomy changed from the pre-Hispanic epoch to today.
Title: History of Mathematics
Author: E.T. Bell Translation: R. Ortíz
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Year: 2003
ISBN: 968-16-1879-3
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This 654-page book carries the reader from the birth of mathematics to the uncertainty and probability studied nowadays.
Title: Introduction to Physics. A Conceptual Focus on Classical Mechanics
Author: Antonio Lara-Barragán Gómez, Guillermo Cerpa Cortés, and Héctor Núñez Trejo
Publisher: Universidad de Guadalajara
Year: 2003
ISBN: 970270378-6
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This 157-page book “emphasizes the conceptualization of classical mechanics in an alternative plan of instruction founded on a framework more philosophical than pedagogical or psychological...”
—Fragment taken from the back of the book.
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Title: Introduction to Meteorology
Author: Raúl Castro Zavala, Mario Vázquez Peña y José Luis Jiménez Rojas
Publisher: Universidad Autónoma de Chapingo
Year: 2002
ISBN: 970-651-636-0
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
In this 247-page book “it is intended that the reader becomes familiar with the basic concept of atmospheric phenomena and with current themes of environmental deterioration.”
Title: Advanced Mathematics for Engineering. Volume 1 and 11
Author: Erwin Kreyszig Translation: Rodolfo Piña García and Hugo Villagómez Velázquez
Publisher: Limusa Wiley
Year: 2002
ISBN: 968-18-5310-5 (Volume 1)
ISBN: 968-18-5311-3 (Volume 11)
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This 721-page book was written with students of engineering, physics, mathematics and computer sciences in mind.
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Title: Mathematics for Humanities Students
Author: Moris Kline Translation: Roberto Helier
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Year: 2001
ISBN: 968-16-3093-9
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This 574-page book “binds the achievements of sciences such as physics with methods of mathematics, and makes the reader see the subtle relations of the science of numbers with the economy, politics, sociology, philosophy, and art”.
Title: Mathematics II
Author: Pedro Aranda García, Teofilio Gallardo Sainz, Enrique Minor Campa, et al.
Publisher: Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Year: 1999
ISBN: 968-29-1738-7
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This 185-page book will teach students about linear equations, linear equations with one unknown variable, linear systems of equations with two or three unknown variables...
Title: Meteors. Fragments of Comets and Asteroids
Author: Josep María Trigo I. Rodríguez
Publisher: Equipo SIRIUS
Year: 1996
ISBN: 84-86639-81-6
Suggested reader’s academic level: Science Teachers and/or College Students
This book has 371 pages that are divided into 21 chapters in which the author “denotes having a lot of hours of observation through out his life. He transmits his global interest for the interplanetary matter, using very simple language and, at the same time, he gives generous explications.”
Title: Fundamental Notions of Mechanics. Volume 111
Author: Valentín Gama
Publisher: Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Year: 1999
ISBN: 968-7001 71-2
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This 467-page book is part of a new collection of books that was created by the National Polytechnic Institute. This collection has the purpose of producing less expensive textbooks that support the teaching and learning process.
Title: Óptica
Author: Justiniano Casas
Editor: Librería Pons
Year: 1994 (7th Edition)
ISBN: 84-605-0062-4
Suggested reader’s academic level: University/College
Optics is one of the many growing branches in physics with a very promising future. This book is designed for a college student in an introductory optics course. The main purpose of this book is to teach students in science, in general, and optics majors specifically how to understand many of the concepts and uses of optics.
Title: Óptica
Author: Eugene Hecht
Translation: Raffaello Dal Col
Editor: Addison Wesley Longman, Inc.
Year: 1998 (3rd Edition)
ISBN: 0-201-30425-2
Suggested reader’s academic level: University/College
This third edition serves as an introduction to the advances in optics technology and their importance in our society. There are 708 pages and 13 chapters with easy to follow diagrams and some technical language. This book is helpful to students in a college introductory course in optics.
Title: Problems of Differential and Integral Calculus
Author: Guillermo García Talavera
Publisher: Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Year: 1999
ISBN: 970-18-2383-4
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This 517-page book “offers a collection of 682 problems about differential and integral calculus with their solutions.
Title: Problems and Exercises of Quantum Mechanics
Author: Luis de la Peña and Mirna Villavicencio
Publisher: UNAM y Fondo de Cultura Económica
Year: 2003
ISBN: 968-16-7035-3
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This book “discusses in detail the solution to each one of the problems suggested to the reader... it is aimed at college students that desire to acquire a solid knowledge of the principles of quantum mechanics...”
—Fragment taken from the back of the book.
Title: Selected Problems of Elemental Physics. Volume 1
Author: Bújovtsev, Miákishev, Krívchenkov, and Saráeva Translation: Marina Kostritsina
Publisher: Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Year: 1998
ISBN: 968-7001 18-6
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This 225-page book is a collection of problems about mechanics, heat, molecular physics, electricity and magnetism, oscillations and waves, geometric optics and physical optics.
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Title: Problems of Basic Chemistry. Volume 2
Author: Raymundo Luna Rangel, Maria Esther Martínez Morales, Eva de los Ángeles Chapa Rezendez, et al.
Publisher: Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Year: 1990
ISBN: 968-29-2631-9
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This 410-page book contains “260 problems on solubility and solutions, solved by different procedures”. This book that can serve as a great aid for those students who desire to acquire practice in the solution of problems.
Title: Chemistry—The Central Science
Author: Theodore L. Brown, H. Eugene LeMay, Jr. And Bruce E. Bursten
Translator: Héctor Javier Escalona y García y M. En C. Roberto Escalona
Publisher: Pearson Educación
Year: 1998
ISBN Number: 970-17-0169-0
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This 987-page book has 25 chapters with colorful illustrations and it includes a CD-Rom. The students will acquire a significant understanding of many of the themes in chemistry.
Title: Chemistry
Author: Gregory R. Choppin y Lee R. Summerlin
Translator: Hortensia Corona de Contin
Publisher: Publicaciones Cultural
Year: 2000
ISBN Number: 968-439-138-2
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
In 623 pages and five chapters with black and white images the student will learn the importance of the properties of water, aqueous solutions, characterization of acids and bases, velocity of chemical reactions...
Title: General Chemistry
Author: Ma. Guadalupe Osuna C.
Publisher: Alfaomega and Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Year: 2002
ISBN: 970-36-0002-6
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This 215-page book, “directed at a first course of general college-level chemistry, presents its fundamental bases, from the analysis of the atomic structure, the atomic nucleus, Bohr’s model, and descriptive chemistry to chemical bonds”.
Title: Chemistry
Author: Teresita Flores de Labardini, Arcelia Ramírez de Delgado et. al.
Publisher: Publicaciones Cultural
Year: 2000
ISBN Number: 968-439-589-2
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This 512-page book has 15 chapters and gives the students the opportunity to simply acquire the knowledge necessary to understand many of the themes in chemistry. This book contains a table of elements, answers to the exercises, a glossary and many black and white illustrations that complement the text.
Title: Organic Chemistry
Author: Robert Thornton Morrison & Robert Neilson Boyd
Translator: Rosa Zugazagoitia Herranz y Peter Fielder
Publisher: Pearson Educación
Year: 1998
ISBN Number: 968-444-340-4
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
“The authors reorganized the material and added new information with the purpose of presenting the text in such form that students can assimilate it better.”
Title: Springs of Scientific Creativity. Essays About the Founders of Modern Science
Authors: Ruther Aris, H. Ted Davis y Roger H. Stuewer
Translator: Juan Almela
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Year: 1995
ISBN Number: 968-16-3283-4
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
“Through twelve biographical essays, recompiled from a series of conferences on the theme, this book offers a panorama that goes from Galileo, Newton, J.P. Joule and Maxwell to J.W. Gibbs, Rayleigh and Sperry...
Title: Introduction to Algebraic Functions Theory
Author: Gabriel Daniel Villa Salvador
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Year: 2003
ISBN: 968-16-7075-2
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
“This work is an introduction to the algebraic-arithmetic theory of the fields of algebraic functions of one variable”.
—Fragment taken from the back of the book.
Title: The Earth, That Different Planet
Author: S. Ichtiaque Rasool y N. Skrotzky Translation: Luis Justo
Publisher: Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo
Year: 1989
ISBN: 84-7432-363-0
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This 201-page book talks about the effects of changes in the biosphere of our planet, “the uniqueness of the Earth, [and] its value as a true miracle. The authors alert us to the need of preserving it”.
Title: The Course of the Universe
Author: Frank Durham and Robert D. Purrington
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
Collection: Science for Everyone
Year: 1996
ISBN: 968-16-3083-1 (First Reprint)
Suggested reader’s academic level: Science Teachers and/or College Students
This 293-page book tries to explain cosmology as a sub-field of both astronomy and physics.
Title: Scientific and Technical Vocabulary
Author: Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales
Publisher: ESPASA
Year: 1994
ISBN: 84-239-9407-4
Suggested reader’s academic level: College
This dictionary is divided into three large sections: exact sciences, chemical and physical sciences, and natural sciences. This it is an excellent tool for the professional that desires to have an exact definition to a series of terms about the areas before mentioned.
