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This is a textbook in Spanish for a basic course in differential topology. It would seem ideal as a sequel to a course in classical differential geometry. The material is presented in a rather unsophisticated style without excess abstraction, so that, for example, manifolds are subsets of Euclidean space as are tangent bundles. One rather surprising feature is that emphasis is on manifolds with boundary instead of manifolds. With that exception, the choice of topics is fairly standard: immersions and submersions, regular values and transversality, normal bundles and tubular neighbourhoods, approximation of maps and homotopy. The final section contains attractive applications: Brouwer fixed point theorem, Jordan separation theorem, Hopf's theorem on homotopy classes of maps to spheres, vector fields on spheres. A nice set of problems appears at the end. The book gives an excellent impression. The authors have obviously put a lot of effort into choice of material and presentation. It makes me want to try the book with a class.