Anna from Vienna wrote: "very often I receive requests from high school students to name a couple of books about the history of Origami for some school projects they are working on."
I recommend Peter Engel's book 'Folding The Universe.' To quote from Martin Gardner's comment on the book's back cover, Engel provides "a crisp history of the art, and explores it's connections with nature, painting, music, literature, Buddhist philosophy, the psychology of creativity, and even recent developments in science and mathematics such as chaos theory and fractal geometry." All of this is included in his densely illustrated first 80 pages, one of the best inspiring reads in any origami book. David Shall
