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Home Used & Out of Print On Being Certain : Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not

On Being Certain by Robert Burton

On Being Certain : Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not by Robert Burton

  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
  • Pub. Date:  02/05/2008
  • ISBN-13: 9780312359201
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