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Hi, I'm looking for kind of a begginers-intermediates book, but something with diagrams more complicated than cranes(for example).

any suggestions?

Start with John Montroll - he's got well-drawn diagrams for well-designed animals. His models range from easy to low complex, great for anyone who's just learning.

How about Peter Engel's "Origami from Angelfish to Zen".
Not only does it have a good balance of easy to high-intermediate models, it also has a very nice set of articles about origami history, math, etc.

First my suggestion is Origami Omnibus (what was disccussed here before) and second one is Kawasaki's Doctor's origami world:
http://new.origami.cz/index.php/Vysn%C4 ... k_na_to%3F

In addition to the suggestions already given, you might check out the local library or used book store for books by Randlett, Harbin, and some of the dollar bill origami books.

Even some of the advanced origami books will have beginner-intermediate folds in the beginning of the book.

Montroll and Shafer are both good to look at.

- Hank Simon

I'm going to have to anti-recommend Angelfish to Zen and the Harbin books. They're cool in their own right, but not what you want to learn from. My recommendation would be John Montroll's Teach Yourself Origami. Any Montroll book besides the Enthusiast books, and the polyhedra books would be a good choice.

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I would recommend my book "Kreative Falt-Ideen". While it includes the crane as well, this model is among the easier models of the book to explain some of the basics for the rest of the book.

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I agree with origamimasterjared, Harbrin's books are not for begginers, but... in his era they were for begginers. Why not today? It is harder to follow than for example Kawasaki's books, but it is of course possible. Man need not to be lazy...