Personal projects and free traits: Mutable selves and well beings

Personal Project Pursuit: Goals, Action, and Human Flourishing

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 375-400

  Little, Brian R ^a   Joseph, Maryann F ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 85076651539     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315089928-14     Document Type: Chapter

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