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The notion of exterior differential form was firstly introduced by E. Cartan around 1902. He and other mathematicians then developed it into a powerful conceptual and computational tool. Differential forms are practically indispensible in differential geometry, differential topology and theoretical physics. They can be viewed as a complement to a classical course of vector calculus. In the book under review, the author presents in an elegant manner, with complete proofs and details, some aspects from the theory of differential forms. The material is organized as follows: I. Differential forms, II. Oriented manifolds, III. Differential forms revisited, IV. Integration of differential forms over oriented manifolds, V. The generalized Stokes's theorem, VI. For the advanced reader. It has also an appendix, solutions and hints to the exercises from the book, and an index.