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: