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WHSmiths Books • WHSmiths Music • WHSmiths DVD & Video • WHSmiths Games • WHSmiths Stationery • WHSmiths Magazines • WHSmiths Special Offers • WHSmiths Bookshop • WHSmiths Internet Store First Light This is the memoir of a young man (17 years old when the story begins) who enlisted into the RAF weeks before the outbreak of World War II. We follow Geoffrey's progress through the demanding early stages of his training: he was distinctly below average and was reminded of this continually. He was obviously a sensitive young man and pressure on him tells. As the war raged in the air over the channel Geoffrey by then an 18-year-old spitfire fighter pilot with minimal experience was posted to a squadron based on the south coast. He remained here for two years and despite the appalling casualty rate - friends disappearing almost after every sortie - he became a brave decorated fighter pilot. Running through the book are his inner feelings - angst bravado comradeship - and it is this powerfully evoked sense of self that is one of the most moving aspects of the book. Geoffrey describes his first flights in a spitfire as well as his first experience of aerial battle and one dreadful sortie over the English Channel where his radio broke and he was coping with thunderstorm cloud and German planes. Finally in the writing one begins to see through small references at first the effect on Geoffrey of this endless stress and tiredness. He began to doubt himself things went wrong and finally he snapped. ... Anastacia Self titled third album from the self professed performer of 'Sprock' music (soul pop and rock). Following on from 2002's 'Freak Of Nature' 'Anastacia' keeps to the melodic pop style fueled by soulful vocal lines as seen on previous releases. However this release shows a maturity in lyric writing less evident on her earlier albums. ... Raising Boys Why Boys Are Different - and How to Help Them Become Happy and Well-balanced Men This text argues that boys need to be parented in a different way from girls with their own very special psychological and physical make-up. Home society and education have failed boys badly - and these failures lead to unhappy men who cannot fully become emotionally confident adults. The author Steve Biddulph goes on to assert that it is essential that boys spend more time learning about manhood from their fathers. Through the teen years a boy ideally needs a male mentor outside his immediate family to teach him the best way to live. Without these things boys can turn to alcohol drugs and despair and fail to grow up into feeling responsible adults. In this text Biddulph provides advice on: the stages of boyhood; how a mother teaches about life and love; how schools need to change to be made a good place for boys; testosterone and how it changes behaviour; how to be a good father; and how to teach boys to have a caring attitude towards girls and sex. ... My Wounded Heart This is the story of a gifted Jewish doctor the mother of five who after separation from her Aryan husband is arrested on an absurd charge and sent to a corrective labour camp in 1942. Lilli was a prolific letter writer and miraculously almost all her letters to her children and friends together with a huge number of their letters to her (smuggled out of the camp at Breitenau before she was sent to Auschwitz) survived World War II and only came to light on the death of her son in 1998. In the letters and in Martin Doerry's commentary we see the deterioration of a whole country through the eyes of an ordinary family driven asunder by pressure from the Nazi regime. We see Lilli's initial optimism and love for her husband begin to crack. We see her trying to support and run the family from Breitenau camp but relying totally on her 12 year-old daughter Ilse and we see the difficulties for the children of living with Ernst's mistress now his wife after a bombing raid destroys the family home. Prehaps most of all we see Ilse's heroic attempts to meet her mother even though it means going into the labour camp itself and Lilli's courage in the face of her inevitable end. ... Compiler Construction Principles and Practice This compiler design and construction text introduces students to the concepts and issues of compiler design and features a comprehensive hands-on case study project for constructing an actual working compiler. ... Man with the Red Tattoo When a British businessman and his family are killed in Japan James Bond is sent to investigate. It soon becomes a race against time as Bond confronts man and nature in a desperate attempt to stop the release of a deadly virus that could destroy the Western world. ...

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