How to be a successful scientist

Scientific and Technological Thinking

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 159-172

  Thagard, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

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EID: 84909353332     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781410611314     Document Type: Chapter

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