Love Yourself: The Relationship of the Self with Itself in Popular Self-Help Texts

Journal of Sociology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 413-428

  Hazleden, Rebecca ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

experience; fear; future; imagination; time; workplace change

Indexed keywords

EID: 25844452144     PISSN: 14407833     EISSN: 17412978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0004869003394006     Document Type: Article

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