The topic of harmonisation of European private law, and European contract law in particular, is rapidly gaining in importance. The topic is not only widely studied by academics and students all over E
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The 1929 sociology classic Middletown: A Study of a Modern American Culture , still in print today, left something out the entire African-American population of its "typical" city of Muncie, Indiana.
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