The Idea of the Brain: A History, Matthew CobbShortlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize This is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe: the human brain. Today we tend to picture it as a computer. Earlier scientists thought about it in their own technological terms: as a telephone switchboard, or a clock, or all manner of fantastic mechanical or hydraulic devices. Could the right metaphor unlock the its deepest secrets once and for all? Galloping

Arthur Phillip

Like women themselves

Pullmans Grimm Tales of wicked wives

sharply etched

From the author Time magazine has called "the man who can't miss

Dinah Lasker grew up in the shadow of her sister

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nationality

Khaled Hosseini

As many around the world are questioning who and what we memorialise

so he's a little disoriented to find himself alive and surrounded by outlandish concepts such as 'washing machine'

of any kind