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The Royal Navy's Submarine Command Course, or 'Perisher', is a unique course, training, assessing and qualifying officers for submarine command which is, itself, unique, challenging and demanding; the epitome of mission command, with no succour, referral or support in a continuously threatening environment. It is therefore essential that those 'in command' are proven to be worthy and capable of their appointment. The evolution of 'Perisher' is in recognisable periods: the earliest days, following the submarine's introduction into the Royal Navy, was an autodidactic existence with COs learning from their peers and by experimentation. By 1917 circumstances had conflated to create the Periscope School and the Periscope Course to train and qualify COs whose characteristics were now fully formed. The interwar period was a difficult time, but it produced new submarines and technological innovations just in time for the Second World War and the most intense evolutionary period for 'Perisher'. Post-1945 to 1969 experienced two evolutions: Commander Sandy Woodward's codification of the art of attacking and a shift in emphasis from purely 'periscope eye' attacking toward the development of safety and tactical prowess in students. In the 1970s-1980s, two parallel courses satisfied the demand for COs from an expanding diesel-nuclear submarine fleet using SSKs and then in 1989, an SSN. The final period, 1990-2017 continues today with an all-nuclear Perisher and a curriculum to meet a changing battlespace, new weapons and tactics. Throughout its history, 'Perisher' has shaped the submarine commanding officer and he, in return, has shaped 'Perisher'.

Meet Billy. a young donkey who lives with his mum and dad in the resort town of Blackpool in the North-West of England. He expects nothing more out of life than to follow in the family tradition of providing rides along the beach for tourists visiting Blackpool during the summer months. Little does he know that his father had the foresight to save his pennies for the time when he and his wife would retire and the courage to move the family to a place where most days in the year are filled with warmth and sunshine!Having arrived on Spain's Costa del Sol, Billy immediately falls in love with his new home in Mijas, where his passion for life and desire to help others in need truly blossom.On his first day alone, he unknowingly saves the life of a young Spanish bull and from here the adventures continue, from fixing a wonky church bell to making English cakes for the local children's charity ... our little Billy's imagination and enthusiasm seem to know no limits!

Based on over thirty years of research of government sentencing policy and work within the criminal justice system, David Fraser demonstrates that Britain's increased reliance on alternatives to imprisonment has allowed violent crime to flourish. The number of life-threatening attacks has increased rapidly over the last forty years but justice officials have masked this development within a blizzard of deceptive statistics.Anti-prison groups tell the public that violent offenders can be managed in the community under supervision and that prison makes offenders worse. Contrary to this misleading propaganda, the evidence presented here informs us that criminals under probation supervision as an alternative to imprisonment commit hundreds of the most serious crimes every year, while the government's figures - which are kept away from the public eye - make it clear that long prison sentences are our best protection against violent crime.Licence to Kill demonstrates that the death penalty was an effective deterrent to homicide but does not argue for its reintroduction. Instead, by acknowledging its effectiveness, David Fraser argues the case for a re-vamped sentencing system that is as effective as was the fear of the hangman's noose. By providing readers with an alternative perspective, he invites them to consider the idea of a new criminal sentencing framework.

The British public today endure some of the world's worst crime levels. According to the government's own estimates, 132 million indictable crimes alone are committed every year, the vast majority of which go unrecorded and undetected. Burglary is rife; street crime burgeoning and violence is escalating to unprecedented levels. Fear of crime means that many of us - especially the vulnerable and the elderly - have become prisoners in our own homes, leaving predatory criminals free to roam our streets.In this meticulously researched and passionately argued study of the contemporary British justice system, David Fraser offers a sobering indictment of post-war British governments, who have not only overseen but also fostered this spectacular and terrifying rise in crime. Almost without exception, governments - and the civil servants and academics who abet them - have sought to persuade us that criminals are victims of society and that they are best rehabilitated within the community rather than punished inside prisons. So pervasive has this 'anti-prison propaganda' become that few of whatever political complexion are now prepared to question its truth.However, as David Fraser cogently argues, community supervision and probation orders have simply left criminals free to reoffend, while the criminal justice system's near obsession with the well-being of criminals has come to override its concerns for their victims, whose interests and sufferings are callously ignored. Moreover, he suggests successive governments' failure to carry out what is their first duty - to protect their citizens - threatens to undermine our democracy, as more and more people - exasperated by the blatant injustice of the justice system - take the law into their own hands. Britain has indeed become 'a land fit for criminals'.

The title Here and There was chosen to signal a poetry collection that places the emphasis on the movement and change which are inescapable features of human existence. The concepts "here" and "there" are bonded by experience, can be oppositional and can suggest in a conversational way the sense of being all over the place. In preparing the collection for publication, the author remembered Seamus Heaney's marvellous poem Postscript, which contains the lines, "You are neither here nor there, / A hurry through which known and strange things pass." The wisdom of Heaney's assertion - that the attempt to inhabit an unassailable Here is unrealistic - is deeply appealing and links to the need for a stabilising version of what Keats called 'negative capability' in navigating life's conflicting currents.So, there are poems of migration and adaptation; poems of travel and reaction to other ways of doing things; poems of family evolution and change; poems addressing zeitgeist challenges like Brexit and the Coronavirus epidemic; poems that focus on Shakespearean characters in their attempts to manage unwieldy circumstance. And flights of fancy.The poems in Here and There deal with continuity and change, movement and stability in challenging, sometimes frightening contexts. "Here" and "there" are relative concepts, interchanging with surprising ease. Adaptability emerges from a reading of these poems as the crucial behavioural factor if we are to lead lives enriched by confidence and optimism.

In It's All Narrative Nick Dux expertly draws on his extensive experience working with children and families to give the reader a clear method of how to build Resilience in children. He presents his theory of Transformative Communication in a clear and concise manner, with plenty of practical case studies to bring it to life. It's All Narrative illustrates how to communicate proactively to build a strong inner voice in children, before moving on to detail how to positively challenge negative and/or worrying behaviour. This is an invaluable tool for all parents, teachers and anyone working with children and young people who wish to help their children grow into strong, successful, resilient adults.

Mummy and Daddy have a little surprise for Suzie.Helping Mummy and Daddy do some little jobs will earn Suzie a shiny coin on Pocket Money Day.Follow Suzie as she earns, saves and spends her pocket money in her new piggy bank.What will she spend it on?You will have to wait and see!