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WHS Plc: Shopping Online at WHS Plc Is So Easy! - Dr No (DVD) The original (some say best) James Bond movie. Sean Connery steps into the role which made him a true star with finesse. Action packed - and still exciting. Connery here proves he was a star all along just waiting to hit the screens. Add original Bond girl Ursula Andress (rising from the waves) while Joseph Wiseman provides a suitably hissable villain. Despite the franchise hitting 40-years-old and 20 films this still stands up well today as an exciting spy thriller. ... Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - A Trilogy in Five Parts When Earth is destroyed to make way for a Hyperspatial express route Arthur Dent discovers that space is big as he is taken on a hair-raising tour of the Galaxy and its very strange inhabitants by his friend Ford Perfect. This is a new edition which incorporates the fifth part of the trilogy. ... Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Adult Edition Harry Potter is a wizard. He is in his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It's always a relief after summer with the Dursleys however Harry doesn't realise that this year will be just as eventful as the last two! The atmosphere at Hogwarts is tense. There's an escaped mass murderer on the loose even the Muggles have been warned. The sinister prison guards of Azkaban have been called in to guard the school and Harry Ron and Hermione rapidly discover why all witches and wizards live in fear of being sent to Azkaban Lessons however must go on and there are lots of new subjects in the third year - Care of Magical Creatures and Divination among others. Plus the delights of Hogsmeade the only village in the UK entirely populated by the magical community. ... Crimson Tide - (DVD) Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington star in the suspense thriller Crimson Tide. No-nonsense combat veteran Captain Frank Ramsey (Hackman) and his newly instated first officer Ron Hunter (Washington) are caught in the middle of a global crisis. On board a nuclear submarine they're heading for Russia where radical nationalists are threatening to start World War III. But when they receive an unverified message to launch their missiles Ramsey and Hunter clash over the validity of the orders. With nuclear holocaust close at hand mutiny erupts on the sub - pitting the entire crew against each other in a showdown that will decide the fate of the world... ... Good The Bad And The Ugly Special - (DVD) Set during the American Civil War the story deals with three mean desperadoes who have their eyes on a 200000 dollar treasure. Besides battling with the local authorities they also have each other to contend with. ... AA Big Road Atlas Britain 2008 This title offers 50 town plans plus a ten-page indexed central London map. A re-designed map grid should enable you to locate places faster and there is journey planning information together with a route-planning section. Additional sections such as information on the central London congestion charging zone and the M6 toll motorway ('Birmingham Expressway') combine with an up-to-date risk-rating map of Britain's motorways and trunk roads to make this atlas both informative and easy-to-use. To further aid this each page is titled with its geographic location so you can turn to the page you need more easily. ...
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WHSmith (WHS) is one of the UK's leading retail groups incorporating market leading companies in retail, publishing and news distribution. The Group has 1,464 stores world-wide, 30,747 employees in 12 countries and sales of some £2.9bn.
WHSmith is the UK's number one family retailer selling a range of products that extends across education, entertainment and information. Each year WHSmith High Street stores sell enough pens to circle the earth; enough books to fill a library shelf from London to Edinburgh; and enough paper to write a letter to everyone in the world. WH Smith also sell 122 million magazines and newspapers each year - enough to make a pile 69 times taller than Mount Everest.
The first High Street store was a small news vendor opened in 1792 in Little Grosvenor Street, London, by Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna. Today, WHSmith has 545 High Street stores, covering over 3 million square feet of selling space and employing 17,000 staff. Clubcard, the Company's loyalty scheme, has more than 5 million members.
Books, newspapers, magazines and stationery form the core of the High Street business. WHSmith sell more books than any other retailer in England, Scotland and Wales. For example, one in three copies of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire were bought from WHSmith in the first weekend of release. WHSmith promote new authors with their Fresh Talent showcase and also have the Thumping Good Read Award that is voted for by members of Clubcard.
WHSmith's major stores stock more than 45,000 product lines, whereas an average food supermarket carries around 10,000 lines.
WHSmith currently holds a strong market share in each of the core categories in which it trades - books, stationery, news, magazines and entertainment. WH Smith's strategy is to exploit the strength, power and potential of the WHSmith brand to provide the very best service and value for money for their customers, shareholders and wider community.
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World Book Encyclopedia 2010
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