The Eye of the World an all-female committee, headed by a Wisdom. This was also illustrated in the introduction of a world ruled by the White Tower, which represented an exclusively female group of powerful political players, the Aes Sedai. These women did not only wield the One Power but they were also manipulators of the world leaders, directing the course of history, and the lives of ordinary people. In January 2002, Starscape Books released "The Eye of the World" into two halves, part one being titled "From the Two Rivers" () and part two titled "To the Blight" (). ATOM, a British publishing house,
Sclera pass. The thickness of the sclera varies from 1mm at the posterior pole to 0.3 mm just behind the rectus muscle insertions. The sclera's blood vessels are mainly on the surface. Along with the vessels of the conjunctiva (which is a thin layer covering the sclera), those in the episclera render the inflamed eye bright red. In many vertebrates, the sclera is reinforced with plates of cartilage or bone, together forming a circular structure called the sclerotic ring. In primitive fish, this ring consists of four plates, but the number is lower in many living ray-finned fishes, and much higher