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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.
