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This is an elementary book in algebraic topology. It covers the following topics: Covering spaces, Singular homology, CW-complexes and an introduction to Sheaf theory. The book does not treat more advanced topics (as for instance product in cohomology), but it does not pretend to do so, as it is pointed out in the introduction. It presents the theory without using too much machinery, but at the same time it presents good concrete examples as well as methods for computing the homotopy invariants. For this purpose it includes the Mayer-Vietoris sequence, cellular homology, the Van-Kampen theorem. The more sophisticated part of the book is its connection with analysis. It contains the De Rham theorem and a standard introduction of sheaf theory together with indication of its connection with analysis. The presentation of the book is more algebraic than geometric. It contains a good collection of exercises which helps the reader to fix the concepts and learn how to prove some interesting results in topology. By its elementary features it is not a book which is written for a graduate student, even for those which do not pretend to specialize in algebraic topology. On the other hand, at the undergraduate level, the book has the merit of providing the reader with relevant concepts of these parts of algebraic topology, in a concrete way and compatible with their background. One more revision for misprints is desirable.