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- ↑ Paper presented at conference ‘Creativity in Practice’, Zakopane, Poland, 1998, published in Creativity in Practice, Published by Drukamia Akademicka Instytutu Postepowania Tworczego Sp.zo.o., Poland.
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- ↑ In Routledge Companion to Creativity, ed. by M. Runco, T. Rickards and S. Moger, Routledge (Taylor and Francis).
- ↑ In Expoloring the Maltese Media Landscape, ed. by J. Borg, A. Hillman and M.A. Lauri, Allied Publications, Malta.
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