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The Craft of Social Anthropology focuses on the methodologies, approaches, and techniques used in the study of social anthropology, as well as anthropological analysis of marriage, divorce, and religious rituals. The book first discusses intensive study of small sample communities and quantification in social anthropology, including quantification and anthropological approach, role of quantification, types of quantitative data, and data collection and processing. The manuscript then examines the frequency of divorce. Topics include divorce ratios, marriage classified by duration, divorce witho

While Zoom classes may work at the college level, they don't work for all students. For PreK-12 students, educators quickly realized a dramatic and disruptive digital divide among families and students in economically-stressed urban and rural communities across the country. At the start of the 20-21 school year, with COVID-19 continuing, it is imperative to resolve the technology challenge to connect with all families and help all students keep learning.

In Apr 2004, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1540 (UNSCR 1540), obliging all member states to take steps to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), particularly by nonstate actors. Here, challenges in the drafting, enacting, & implementation of laws necessary to carry out this mandate are explored, drawing on the experience of the US with earlier statutory & regulatory provisions aimed at the prevention of bioterrorism that were developed before the terrorist attacks of 11 Sept 2001. The international treaty known as the Biological & Toxin Weapons Convention was signed in 1972 & the Biological Weapons Antiterrorism Act was passed in 1989. After the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) devised new regulations regarding the possession, handling, & use of "select" biological agents; controversial issues in such regulation are addressed. New biosecurity laws enacted after 9/11 & their relationship to UNSCR 1540 are examined; three case studies illustrate difficulties in their implementation. K. Hyatt Stewart