The Origin of Others

The authoritative account of Islam's schism that for centuries has shaped events in the Middle East and the Islamic world.

One day in 1900, German physicist Max Planck told his son that he had made a breakthrough as important as Isaac Newton's discovery of the workings of the universe. Planck had reached the surprising conclusion that light behaves as if it is packaged in discrete amounts, or quanta, a seemingly simple observation that would lead to a powerful new field of physics called quantum mechanics.

Conceived, written and illustrated by fantasy artist and writer Patrick Woodroffe, The Pentateuch was his first fully-fledged art-book combined with Dave Greenslade's second solo album, released at a time when the punk revolution had revised the outlook of many former Prog musicians!

Life is unique to Earth. So how did it come to be? And why here? Weve all wondered about the origins of life, but one scientist in San Diego believes that he and his mentor found the answer. Others take a completely new approach to find lifes originsby attempting to create from scratch in the lab. From Hawaiis volcanoes to Greenlands glaciers to meteorites in Australia, Finding the Origin of Life tracks teams of international scientists as they race to solve the mystery of how life forms.