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This is an uncommon book with an interesting idea behind it, which is given in the title: to give an intuitive approach to algebraic topology. Instead of stating theorems in full generality or proving them rigorously with all technical details (or proving them at all), the author rather tries to make the reader familiar with ``the idea'' of the central notions of algebraic topology. Of course this approach has some dangers, it might be very misleading. The book should not be considered a textbook to learn algebraic topology. But it might be very helpful for a student to use this book parallely to a ``rigorous'' textbook. Then he might profit very much of the short and concise treatment of the points. The book consists of nine chapters covering the following subjects: 1: Homeomorphisms and homotopy equivalences; 2: Topological spaces and cell complexes; 3: Homotopy; 4: Homology; 5: Homology groups of cell complexes; 6: Cohomology; 7: The universal coefficient theorem; 8: Fiber bundles and vector bundles; 9: Spectral sequences.