As a result of that experience I went on to read the Q'uran for the first of four different times, and embarked on a journey towards understanding one of the most important countries of the Muslim world that eventually led me to my lifelong passion for the Republic of Turkey.
Inspired by Stevan Riley's marvellous 2011 film of the same name, this is Simon Lister's shot at describing and understanding one of the finest sports teams ever – or "several dots on the map, dominating the world" as their fast bowler Andy Roberts puts it – and the effect it had on that world.
The wave equation has also proved useful in understanding one of the strangest, but most important, physical ideas in the past century: quantum mechanics.
The treatment records and investigations by the clinic's doctors have been crucial, medical experts around the country say, to understanding one of the worst cases of asbestos contamination in the nation's history.
Monod's discoveries, Dr. Carroll writes, helped provide the intellectual scaffolding for understanding "one of the greatest mysteries of biology: the development of a complex creature from a single fertilized egg".
With this system, we're a step closer to understanding one of the most sophisticated biological machines ever created.
