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    The best books on Virtual Living, recommended by Aleks Krotoski

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    The best books on Virtual Living - Life on the Screen by Sherry Turkle

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    Life on the Screen
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    The best books on Virtual Living - My Tiny Life by Julian Dibbell

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    My Tiny Life
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    The best books on Virtual Living - Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

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    Snow Crash
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    The best books on Virtual Living - Neuromancer by William Gibson

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    Neuromancer
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    The best books on Virtual Living - Six Degrees by Mark Lynas

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    Six Degrees
    by Mark Lynas

  • The best books on Virtual Living - Life on the Screen by Sherry Turkle
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  • The best books on Virtual Living - Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
  • The best books on Virtual Living - Neuromancer by William Gibson
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The best books on Virtual Living, recommended by Aleks Krotoski

‘There was a research study done in the 1960s that identified that people will open themselves up to a stranger on a train and tell them deep personal information they would never tell their closest friends, partially because they have this sense that they can confess.’

The best books on Virtual Living, recommended by Aleks Krotoski

    The best books on The History and Diversity of Language, recommended by Nicholas Ostler

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    The best books on The History and Diversity of Language - Dying Words by Nicholas Evans

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    Dying Words
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    The best books on The History and Diversity of Language - La Révolution Technologique de la Grammatisation by Sylvain Auroux

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    La Révolution Technologique de la Grammatisation
    by Sylvain Auroux

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    The best books on The History and Diversity of Language - The Stories of English by David Crystal

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    The Stories of English
    by David Crystal

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    The best books on The History and Diversity of Language - Linguistic Diversity by Daniel Nettle

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    Linguistic Diversity
    by Daniel Nettle

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    The best books on The History and Diversity of Language - Le Ton Beau de Marot by Douglas Hofstadter

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    Le Ton Beau de Marot
    by Douglas Hofstadter

  • The best books on The History and Diversity of Language - Dying Words by Nicholas Evans
  • The best books on The History and Diversity of Language - La Révolution Technologique de la Grammatisation by Sylvain Auroux
  • The best books on The History and Diversity of Language - The Stories of English by David Crystal
  • The best books on The History and Diversity of Language - Linguistic Diversity by Daniel Nettle
  • The best books on The History and Diversity of Language - Le Ton Beau de Marot by Douglas Hofstadter

The best books on The History and Diversity of Language, recommended by Nicholas Ostler

The scholar of language tells us about the progress of the spoken word from 3000 BC to today, how two languages disappear every month, and the 50,000-word novel written without using the letter “e”

The best books on The History and Diversity of Language, recommended by Nicholas Ostler

    The best books on The Internet, recommended by David Soskin

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    The best books on The Internet - Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte

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    Being Digital
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    The best books on The Internet - dot.bomb by J David Kuo

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    dot.bomb
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    The best books on The Internet - The Search by John Battelle

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    The Search
    by John Battelle

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    The best books on The Internet - Click by Bill Tancer

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    Click
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    The best books on The Internet - The Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick

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    The Facebook Effect
    by David Kirkpatrick

  • The best books on The Internet - Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte
  • The best books on The Internet - dot.bomb by J David Kuo
  • The best books on The Internet - The Search by John Battelle
  • The best books on The Internet - Click by Bill Tancer
  • The best books on The Internet - The Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick

The best books on The Internet, recommended by David Soskin

The co-founder and former chief executive of the website Cheapflights tells us what (not) to do to succeed online, and how to learn from Google and Facebook

The best books on The Internet, recommended by David Soskin

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