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Uses paper engineering to illustrate the daily activities and life cycle of a funny bird.

The creator of Funny Birds offers a dazzling new three-dimensional pop-up book - in which a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly - that will delight myriad fans of all ages.

The creator of the brilliant Funny Birds is back with a 3-D pop-up celebration of artist Victor Vasarely that will delight readers of all ages. Widely accepted as the "father" of op art, Victor Vasarely worked his whole life to create mesmerizing works that were visually both complex and accessible. Now paper artist Philippe UG has transformed seven of Vasarely’s most beautiful works into paper sculptures in his newest pop-up book. As readers turn the pages, Vasarely’s creations spring to life in delicate and vibrant three-dimensional structures that trick the eye and excite the imagination. Whether you’re a long-time fan of Vasarely or pop-up books in general, this unique book offers a visual experience that readers will turn to again and again.

A young soldier thrown to the mercies of total war This is remarkable story of a young Rhinelander caught up in the whirlwind of war that raged in Europe in the early 19th century. As one of the smaller Germanic states his homeland was always in an ambiguous position between the great powers. His brother was a proud Cuirassier in Napoleon's Army and Philippe himself became-in his turn-a conscript in the French infantry sent to Spain to fight the British and Spaniards. Captured, he suffered privations and dangers until incarcerated on the prison island of Cabrera where he was offered release if he would change his allegiances by joining the Kings German Legion. The end of war found him in service of a military man with whom he travelled to the East in a British East Indiaman which struck a reef, throwing him into a hair-raising experience of shipwreck and the battle for survival.