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The Idea of the Brain: A History

Matthew Cobb

A monumental, sweeping journey from the ancient roots of neurology to the most astonishing recent research, which Henry Marsh (Admissions) called an 'intellectual tour de force'

HistoryHistory · medium confidenceHistory81 signalsLlm Classifier: History -> HistoryGoogle Books: Science -> ScienceTopic Classifier: Intellectual Biography -> BiographyIntellectual BiographyIntellectual History & Ideas

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionMajor2020FinalistSecondary source
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This is an unverified interpretation of the catalog description, offered as an opt-in discovery experiment—not as bibliographic fact.

  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • Henry Marsh36%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    55 / 100 academic

    Trade / academic crossover

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 42%.