Prompt and circumstance: the generative contexts of personal projects analysis

Personal Project Pursuit: Goals, Action, and Human Flourishing

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 3-49

  Little, Brian R ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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