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The ideas in Time gate may not, as one reviewer has put it, be unique or new anymore - including the idea of cloning dinosaurs or its support of Gould's punctuated equilibrium theory, mars panspermia, life under the ice of Jupiter's moon Europa. But that's the point: these ideas were very new and unique 20 years ago, before such things as "Jurassic Park" brought them into every household. Today they have turned out to be correct and may even be "old hat," but in 1982 they were attacked quite loudly. The reviewer below expresses a common misunderstanding, when he talks about attacks, against this book, from the scientific community. Let me correct this misunderstanding, which arises from the deliberately confusing name given by the attackers, to themselves (namely, "scientific creationists"). The scientific community did in fact support Pellegrino's "heresies" and even gave him shelter in the united states after his laboratory was destroyed. The destroyers were not "scientists" but quite the opposite: anti-evolutionists who called themselves "scientific creationists" - which should probably be enshrined somewhere as the biggest oxymoron of the 20th century. In New Zealand these scientific creationists included Dr Richard Bliss and "Icons of Evolution" author Jonathan Wells (of the Unification Church). In the U.S., about 1984, the book was in fact publically burned by Rev. Jerry Falwell's organization, along with books by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., in front of a library in Cleveland Ohio. The so-called "scientific creationists," the anti-evolutionists, claimed only to want "equal time," with Darwin,in the classrooms. The history of "Time Cate" revealed, at least in New Zealand (where it was banned completely and the author was put on trial literally as a heretic), what could happen when religious extremism masquerading as a plea for "equal time" ended up in full control.

Basically, the concept of "Time Gate" is pretty much similar to the much more famous book "powers of ten" (but with more text and less images).

Starting in New York of 1984, the book examines how the World looked at various points in the past. The first step is 4 years, sending us to 1980. And each further step is twice as large as the previous one: Thus the second frame is at 1972, the third is at 1956 and so on... the book goes on until the Big Bang is reached after 34 steps.

The book has quite a few cool photographs depicting the various time periods. The explanations are concise and clear.

Now you are probably asking: What the heck is the connection between this nice little book and the review by that guy from Seattle? (If he is really from Seattle...)

I'm as baffled as you are. The fact is, a copy of "Time Gate" was available in our Californian school in 1987. I don't know what happened in New Zealand, but in the USA the book was never banned or even publicly condemned by scientists. The reason it isn't available today is simply that it is a 16 year old book. Only best-sellers survive that long, and "Time Gate" was never even close to such success.

I don't know. Maybe it's just a marketing trick to lure innocent readers to buy a used copy...

Anyway, if you can't find the book at reasonable price, don't buy it. For despite it being a very fine book, "Time Gate" doesn't contain anything incredibly unique. The concept of "powers of ten through time" has been explored in countless other works. About the only thing that makes it real special, is the fact that the Twin Towers are shown in the first few frames (1984, 1980, 1972). Still, I don't think this alone would make it worth hundreds of dollars, although some people might think otherwise.

There's a reason this book is auctioned or sold to collectors at a premium (amount), even in bad condition. In it, you will read how life on Earth could have been added to, or helped along, by microbes blasted from the surface of Mars by asteroid impacts billions of years ago, how dinosaurs might be cloned from DNA carried by blood feeding flies preserved in amber, how extraterrestrial life may lie hidden in new oceans waiting to be discovered beneath the surfaces of Europa, Ganymede, Titan - and how Chaos Theory keeps it all from falling apart. All of these things are now acceptable, but not 2 decades ago, in New Zealand, to "Scientific Creationists" who put Pellegrino on trial as a heretic and a "corruptor of youth" when he spoke about and dared to publish his theories. This book has a history stranger than most any other. One of the reasons "Time Gate" is so rare is that it was banned and then publicly burned in New Zealand, where pellegrino was stripped of both his university position and his home, and where his laboratory was literally smashed to pieces by an angry mob. It must have been all the more horrifying, when he fled to the United States, to see his books publicly burned in a trash bin, by Creationist extremists, in front of a library in Ohio (New Zealand extremists, who have dogged him in the American courts up to the present day, might actually have organized the American burnings - which moved Ray Bradbury to send Pellegrino the original manuscript of "Farenheight 451," personally inscribed with New Zealand slurs - - - Now THAT just HAS to be a collectable!). Pellegrino did finally have the last laugh. In 1993, the New Zealand government gave Sam Neil an award for ACTING in the movie based on the same dinosaur cloning theory for which they threw Pellegrino out a decade earlier simply because he came up with it (Yes, you're reading this right: They gave the actor an award, and trashed the scientist). A Purchasing tip: The hardcover is the one you want. Most dealers deeply discount it because it is "without dust jacket." The truth is that there never was a dust jacket. The hardcovers were attached only for shipping to libraries, and only 1000 of these originally existed. Note also that while the book was so widely condemned that it never saw a second printing, it did have almost unprecidented influence in both Hollywood and NASA, and even before publication caught the attention of Isaac Asimov, who wrote in the Foreword: "I have myself written well over 300 books now, on all sorts of subjects, so I have small cause to envy any other writer, but I envy Pellegrino this book. I wish I had written it. My consolation is the knowledge that, had I written it, I would not have done anywhere near the beautiful job he has done, and that, in any case, reading it has been for me almost as much fun as writing it would have been."

There are very few books that defend a "non-evolutionist" position and this one is, among them, without doubts, the most important and decisive. Dewar exposes, scientifically, all the maneuvers undertaken by those that intended to make of a thesis scientifically unviable, an unassailable law for the world. The truth is that nobody ever demonstrated scientific evidences that a species "developed" for another.Countless neologisms,incomprehensibles for the lay ones, reveal themeselves entirely insignificants and often nonsenses when examined by Douglas Dewar. What is more astonishing to us is that a book so important is inacassible since so many years.Other titles of the same author, especially the ones that denounce the fake "evolutionism", are equally almost impossible to be obtained. - Why ???

_The Transformist Illusion_, first published in 1957 and republished by Sophia Perennis et Universalis, by Douglas Dewar is a fascinating debunking of the Darwinian account of evolution from the perspective of a noted creationist. In recent times, the debate between evolutionists and creationists (as well as those who advocate "Intelligent Design") has become particularly pronounced and politicized. Public denial of evolution often leads to the permanent branding of noted scientists. However, the proponents of one school of thought, the Traditionalists, followers of thinkers such as Rene Guenon and Ananda Coomaraswamy, have long maintained that evolution conflicts with traditional metaphysics and involves an acceptance of the fallacy of progress. In particular, thinkers sympathetic to the Traditionalist school such as Frithjof Schuon, Titus Burckhardt, Martin Lings, Marco Pallis, S. H. Nasr, Lord Northbourne, Huston Smith, and Wolfgang Smith have argued against evolution and have often cited this work of Dewar to support their case. Douglas Dewar (1875 - 1957) was a British biologist and ornithologist. He studied under Sedgewick at Cambridge. In his youth he believed in the theory of evolution; however, later he came to doubt this theory. He was a founder of the Evolution Protest Movement in London in 1932. He also debated leading evolutionists including H. S. Shelton, J. B. S. Haldane, and Joseph McCabe. However, as a scientist opposing the Darwinian account, he was relegated to the sidelines and thus this book (which assembles a vast amount of palaeontological and biological evidence against the theory of evolution) had to be published in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and has been relegated to obscurity. Nevertheless, the points made in this book are important and should not be naively rejected out of hand.

First, it should be noted that Dewar regards transformism as "The doctrine that all organisms are derived from a common ancestor, or two or three ancestors." (from his Glossary). To begin with Dewar considers biology in light of the physical sciences. From the very beginning, two immediate difficulties arise for the theory of evolution. To this date these difficulties have not been resolved (despite various experimental attempts, including the "Miller experiments"). The first is the problem of the origin of life (a difficulty so great that evolutionist J. B. S. Haldane refused to debate the topic of evolution unless it was not part of the debate) and the second is the issue of entropy (evolution appears to fly in the face of entropy and the evolutionist must maintain that while the universe is like a "clock running down" the living world is like a "tiny clock running up" within that "clock running down"). Following these obvious objections, Dewar turns to the evidence from the fossils, noting that the fossils remain "hostile witnesses" to the theory of evolution. Dewar states "Not a single fossil of vital importance for support of the theory has come to light." This is the issue of the lack of transitional forms in the fossil record. Indeed, Darwinism rests largely on the following three alleged evidences: 1. structural, 2. physiological, and 3. historical, and Darwin himself largely dismissed the evidence of the fossils. For example, Dewar brings up the issue of the lack of pre-Cambrian fossils (in the Cambrian period a great marine fauna appears abruptly). Darwinists have searched for such fossils in vain and have variously tried to explain this lack of fossils all to no avail as Dewar shows. Dewar next considers the succession of the faunas, showing the fossil evidence from each of the respective geological periods. Following this, Dewar discusses the origins of the families and evolution of the families, discussing for example the cases of the sea-cow and the horse. After this discussion, Dewar turns to the alleged fossil links between man and non-human ancestors, showing each of these alleged links to be problematic. Dewar also discusses transformism versus the geological record, showing the absurdity of such ideas as "clandestine evolution". Following this, Dewar brings up evidence from experiments (showing the failure of breeders to prove the transformist correct) as well as evidence of the geological distribution of animals. Dewar also considers the case of nascent and vestigial structures (such as the appendix in man) showing that while these structures are often assumed to be vestigial that they are often not so. Next, Dewar considers the case of blood-precipitation tests which were used as evidence for evolution in the Scopes trial; however, he shows such evidence to be faulty. Dewar also considers the development of the animal embroyo, fully refuting Haeckel's claim that "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" (now not accepted by many evolutionists) and shows Haeckel to have been a confabulator in other cases. Dewar also considers the cases of metamorphosis and parasitism and the alleged evidence they offer for evolution. Dewar also considers some transformations posited by the theory of evolution, mentioning the alleged transformation from fish to amphibian to reptile. However, as he shows this alleged transformation is problematic, despite cases of lung-fish and pteradactls (or archaeopteryx). Dewar also considers some characters incompatible with evolution and the role of instincts (which also offers evidence against the theory of evolution). Dewar ends by concluding that the transformist hypothesis is discredited as an illusion and that while the theory of evolution claims to do away with miracles, it in fact involves more miracles than the creationist account (which only involves one miracle). From this Dewar concludes, that the creationist account of the origins of life makes more sense. Dewar includes several appendices and a glossary of useful terms. The first appendix deals with the issue of classification, the second appendix deals with the dating of geological deposits (something which Dewar also calls into question), the third appendix deals with some characteristics of birds that are apparently incompatible with the theory of evolution, and the last appendix deals with some discoveries concerning early man (including the case of the Piltdown man, which ironically, for the evolutionist, turned out to be a forgery!).

For anyone trying to understand the debate of the origins of life, this book remains an important one. Today, evolution reigns supreme among most scientists; however, many of us secretly harbor doubts. Too often evolution is accepted as simply fact merely because noted scientists say so. However, as Dewar's book shows, the theory itself (the transformist hypothesis) has a lot to account for, which it cannot. This is essential reading for those trying to grapple with this issue and is highly recommended.

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In the Twentieth Century United States, the long war of Christianity to quell reason achieved a new intensity. There, the casualities weren't a reticent Copernicus or a timorous Galileo, but uncountable thousands of innocent schoolchildren. In that nation, supposedly founded on the separation of religion and the secular, the battleground shifted. Instead of the contestants clashing in academic debating rooms, the confrontations occured in lawcourts. Larson offers the first comprehensive survey of Christian forays into public education in the United States, and the legal disputes that ensued. He does it with a sense of detachment not easily attained in dealing with this topic.

Larson outlines the background to American forms of Christianity [which have few counterparts elsewhere], before homing in on the 1925 landmark trial in Dayton, Tennessee. Although "fundamentalism" may have germinated early in the 19th Century, it was the post WWI years that brought fruition and gave it voice, according to Larson. The voice came to be centred in the three-time Presidential candidate, William Jennings Bryan. Although a "reformer" with many causes, it is his role as an anti-Darwinist that captured enduring attention. A "Biblical literalist", Bryan found all social values stemming from "the Bible". As a fundamentalist champion, once he overcame an initial reluctance, he endorsed state legistlation banning Darwin from the classroom.

The famous "Scopes trial" set in motion a sequence of enactments in various States, not all Southron ones, to prevent Darwin's Idea from polluting young minds. Many of these laws were sketchily enforced, but their very existence led to a wave of self-censorship among text-book publishers. It isn't necessary to ban what isn't there, as Larson makes clear. Two generations of children passed through school without learning how life works.

An unexpected trigger led to a fresh wave of challenges to the vacuities of science teaching in the United States. Larson cites the Soviet Union's launching of a silvery sphere in orbit around the planet as prompting a new outlook. Cries of betrayal led to sharp looks at how science was considered in American schools. Among the topics, of course, evolution was given fresh attention. With many States banning or eroding the topic, a fresh wave of court cases resulted. However, State control of education was a given - how then to proceed against restricted curricula?

It was also a given that religion and government remain apart. Challenges to the new legislation focused on The Establishment clause of the constitution which prohibited laws favouring religion. Since evolution was forbidden, what to teach inevitably meant reverting to biblical texts. Various laws were successfully overturned as promoting religion in public schools. Larson takes us carefully through the various cases, particularly the 1981 Arkansas "McLean" decision. For the first time, expert witnesses were allowed to cinch the case for evolution. This decision, and a succeeding one in Louisiana, seemed to some to have finished the disputations. Enter the ICR and a new Christian wave eroding Darwin's insight.

Larson describes Henry Morris' Institution for Creation Research as a prime mover in launching the new challenges to reason. Although Morris was a key figure, Larson, keeping with his legalist theme, brings lawyer Phillip Johnson's "Darwin On Trial" to front stage. Johnson's books, which have been described as Christian "legal briefs", express a dichotomy: life is either spiritual or material. He opts for spiritual, condemning evolution as "athiestic" and lacking morals. Johnson is joined by Michael Behe's "intelligent design" movement that is now struggling for recognition. Aspects of life, Behe argues, is too complex to have emerged without a "guiding hand". Larson depicts this without judgmental asides, leaving the reader to form their own conclusions.

This book is the result of painstaking research, ably presenting a wealth of complex issues. Legal disputes rarely permit frivolous narrative, but Larson's book offers clarity and succinctness. A text that might have been horribly ponderous, given the legalist basis, proves a delight to read. He's to be congratulated for taking up this theme and how well he describes events and the people involved. The book will remain a fundamental resource for any future studies and should be read by a wide audience. [stephen a. haines - Ottawa, Canada]

Larson's book is excellent. It focuses only on the legal history of 20th Century Creationism. The book was quite objective and thorough and it is hard to discerne the author's position on the matter, although one suspects he may not be sympathetic to the Creationist cause since he is familiar with their sometimes devious and irrational strategies for manipulating public opinion, the courts and state legislatures to "overrule" the scientific community in the matter of evolution. He succeeds in amply illustrating his main thesis, namely that the response of the courts to Creationism has been profoundly influenced by public opinion. Well written and recently revised to bring it up to date.

Trial and Error: The American Controversy over Creation and Evolution by Edward J. Larson is the definitive history of the ongoing American argument of the place of religion and science in the public schools. The author does a superb job in giving the reader the history of biology texts from the 19th century into the 20th century. The book traces the history of legislation and court cases in the ongoing controversy of the place of evolution and creation science in American education. I read this book after I read Larson's later work, Summer Of The Gods. In this earlier work Edward J. Larson is even handed and objective. He presents the facts and history of each court case in understandable terms. This book shows how both sides are really the same, fundementalists, unwilling, really, to listen to what the other side has to say. Anyone interested in this aspect of American history can do no better than to consult Trial and Error: The American Controversy over Creation and Evolution by Edward J. Larson.

This is an issue that will not go away, despite the hopes of both sides in this fight. In light of the pending Dover, PA court case it is a good idea to keep any of Larson's books handy.

This is a truely exceptional autobiography of Colby Buzzell's tour of Iraq. It is compelling, funny, dignified, and soulful..Every American should read this book.

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For any child who is developing an interest in the marine life sciences this is the book for them.

"Under the Sea" is well structured and logically laid out. It starts with the physical environment of the oceans. The main part of the book is a systematic coverage of the various marine environments that are classified according to their depth and temperature. . The characteristic biotas that occupy each ecological niche are well described.

Some readers may find this approach formulaic but a rigorous scientific methodology is necessary if the information it contains is to be comprehensible and of real value.

The illustrations accompanying the text are bright, accurate but definitely not garish. The pictures and their captions provide good support to the text.

This book is an ideal companion to another book by the "Nature Company Discoveries" title "Mammals" which is edited by George McKay

This book provides an ideal launching pad for those children who are keen to learn about the natural world. This book is definitely out of the ordinary.

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This book is very educational, no matter how old you are. I am a student at UWF and I used this book as part of my sea life lesson plan. The children loved looking at the bright illustrations. I recommend it to everyone.

Two DNA arise out of one. Each daughter cell will receive a DNA molecule have the exact same nucleotide sequence as the parent.

DNA polymerase travels down the DNA and produces an messenger RNA. The DNA strand separates as DNA polymerase and other proteins bind to the DNA. Nucleotides are added to the growing chain of the old strand which has been unzipped. The (A) DNA polymerase moves continueously in the direction of the unzipping and (B) DNA polyermarse moves in the opposite direction. DNA ligase join the fragments. Mutations occur during the replication, for example a T may mutate to a U.

Gene Expression. In RNA polymerase generates Messenger RNA strand. The RNA polymerase connects to a recognition site.
An amino acid connects to an enyzme and Transfer RNA connects to the amino acid then the amino acid and tRNA are released. The tRNA connects to the codon sugar on the mRNA as the Ribosome translates the mRNA. Each gene has a start and terminator codon. When the ribosome encounters the terminator codon the protein chain is released.

A ribosome connects to the mRNA and produces a peptide chain of amino acids. The ribosome creates the protein chain with the help of tranfer RNA. There are 20 amino acids and each one has a corresponding tRNA. The tRNA, enzyme, and Amino Acid are assembled into a peptide; the ribosome reads the mRNA code and a matching tRNA links too it; as new codons are read the previous tRNA is released with the previous amino acid bond too the new amino acid; at the end of the mRNA the amino acid chain is released.

RNA polymarse primes, connects at the origin, and traverses a section of DNA sugars producing a mRNA for a specific gene. mRNA is created and the ribosome creates the protein.

Gene splicing. Enzymes cut the dna into fragments at specific locations called restriction sites. These enzymes are called restriction nucleases. A bacteria or phage can be used as a host. Plasmids and DNA are cut by the enyzems, the fragments are separated and recombined using DNA ligase resulting in a plasmid that contains human DNA fragments and plasmid fragments. The plasmid are reintroduced to the bacteria and grown producing the desired proteins. A bacteria contains the chromosomes, plasmid, and phila. A male bacteria uses the phila to pull in the female bacteria and injects the plasmid into the female making it male. The bacteria divide with the new dna.

Cell division. The DNA unzips and forms two daughter cells. The nucleus wraps around each of the replicated DNA strands. What is interesting about cell division is that one strand replicates in the direction of the unzipping and the other replicates in the opposite direction and leaps back to the point of unzipping creating segments of replication connect by ligase.

For someone who already went through a college-level molecular biology course, Drlica's book is an especially good refresher. The book also goes into good detail on various protocols used by biochemical and mol/cell labs today.

This is the book that we ask all new undergraduates, time-slip students, high school students, and technicians to read before they start work in our lab. It is also the book I recommend to non-specialists like my father who want to know what I am doing. It is an excellent introduction.

Von Schlegell provides a context for some of the deepest tryps I've ever taken. A good place to reflect on all those things that we should be asking but don't. Don't be a busy dude, let it take you on that tryp.

Venusia is the first book I've ever read that takes time travel to its logical conclusions, where the coming undone of the fabric of reality is not just a threat but a given from the first page. It is the most complicated narrative meditation on reality and the imagination I expect I will ever encounter. Reading it is something like walking through one of Salvador Dali's paintings after another.

It takes place in a post-literate society where daily flower feedings are mandated by law and scanner helmets allow both doctors and police to enter people's minds and alter them. Its unlikely hero is an antiquities dealer on the verge of the biggest deal of his career who finds himself falling in love with a reality-TV journalist.

This book is fully realized, completely original, deeply plotted and compulsively readable. I would recommend it to anyone who liked Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or the Hitchhiker's Guide.

Forget cyber punk, nano-tech, and that tired victorian future...whatever. Venusia is hard core! A story that can't be condensed and described, you have to experience it. This is truly a messed up pyschedelic trip through speculative fiction, a post modern rollercoaster ride that never feels academic. The thrills of six flags combined with the fantasy and attention to detail of old school disneyland all in a portable, easy to carry, compressed universe called a book. Do you love PKD and Delany? Do you crave dense, mind expanding, tongue twisting, mushroom chewing meditations on the limits of the imagination? Then this is your thang. Dr. Bloodmoney meets Palmer Eldritch meets Dreams in the Witch House meets Perdido Street Station meets the Secret Life of Plants. Yeah, I said it, The Secret Life of Plants. Don't be fooled by the high falutin publisher and the text-book like cover, this is pulp at its best.

An excellent and comprehensive guidebook for professionals involved in the area of threat assessment and incident management. This is a sorely needed text that covers the critical issues that the practitioner in this relatively newly developing field faces everyday. Corcoran and Cawood share the knowledge gained from their years of experience in a readable and well organized format. I highly recommend this book for either novices interested in this area of study, or for experienced practitioners to use as a primary reference.

Mike and I have attempted to provide a very detailed and practical book to aid practitioners in managing case load. Sometimes it is with teams of talented people (wonderful when it happens) and sometimes it is triage, by yourself, late on a Friday afternoon when no one else is around. We assume that you know how to form teams and know why you would want to do violence risk assessment, the question is how to do it the best possible way, considering as many factors as possible to guide the best outcome. I think this book provides a variety of tools, insights, and ideas in one place that you, the practitioner will find helpful and that anyone who is working with emotionally and mentally destablized people will find of practical benefit, including law enforcment in any assignment, mental health practitioners, legal professionals, human resource professionals, and people interested in the field.
We hope you find it valuable and that it enhances your safety and the safety of the people and communities that you work for and with.

I am new to the field of violence assessment and this book is an excellent tool. I now use it as the guide line for my cases. I have learned so much from it as well as earning the confidence of my employers with the tools it helped me to develope. I encourage eveyone who is associated with the field of threat assessment to purchase this book. I think that even very experienced professionals will learn something important from reading this handbook.

All of the books of this series are exceptional resources for biologists (amateur and professional), zoo workers or frequenters, students, teachers, or Discovery Channel watchers. The scope of information includes descriptions of basic biology, like diet, habitat, reproduction, and life cycle, and also has in-depth scientific information for those who would use it as a scholarly resource. I would recommend these books to anyone with an interest in the subject.

Before I got this book, I didn't know about pramates at all. Because I didn't have much interest to primates. And now I'm interested in primates, and want to know more. On this book, there're many photos and stories about primates. You can enjoy primates world with this book.

This book is an excellent resource if you're looking to do any type of research, it would also be perfect to use as a ready reference tool for identiying certain species, but it is written in a dictionary type of style so it is not an incredible easy read.

A completely original take on the topic of anatomy/human biology. Definitely written for the more curious youngster. Flashy lay-out and interesting topics.

Highly recommended!

I love this book!! It has great illustrations, lots of fun trivia and facts, very kids friendly!

This is truly an amazing book. It is very nicely illustrated and the text is clear and to the point. The first half of the book, on the structure of the body, the organs etc. is very good, but really nothing that cannot be found in many other "Human Body" books for young readers. Where Winston stands out and gives his best, is in the second half of the book. "The brain is the organ that creates the real you" says Winston as he introduces wonderfully simple and yet informative and thought provoking chapters in which he touches on "Thoughts", "Daydreaming", "Right or left handed", "Memory", "Can I change my brain", "Personality: introvert, extrovert", "Dreams", "Emotions", "Body language" and more. All expalined clearly, and with the aid of many examples, simple experiments and fun tests.
Reading this book with my children has been a really fun and engaging adventure.

This is an excellent book that I received as a gift. I purchased a copy for my brother to motivate and inspire him.

This book really inspired me. I couldn't put it down and dog-eared almost every page.

I really enjoyed this book. If you like to use motivational statements, this book is packed full of them. The contents are useful for managers to use with staff, teachers with students and in your own personal life.