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WH Smiths Plc: Shopping Online at WH Smiths Plc Is So Easy! - Parker Reflex Ballpen Black Medium Nib The Reflex is comfortable modern and innovative. The elongated comfort grip makes it the most comfortable Parker ever. For a clean even writing line it is fitted with a standard Parker ball pen refill. It can be fitted with a retractable gel refill for intensity of colour and variation. ... DINOSAUR (COLLECTOR'S EDITION) (DISNEY) - (DVD) Computer-animated Disney adventure. After his egg hatches in a strange environment a young dinosaur grows up in alien surroundings "adopted" by a family of lemurs. When a meteor shower strikes the earth he must join a group of other dinosaurs to travel to the comparative safety of the "nesting grounds". The opening scenes of Disney's Dinosaur demand the biggest television you can get your hands on (illegal activities not withstanding - of course). An utterly jaw-dropping sequence in which a dinosaur egg is stolen from a nest and through a series of events taken on an extraordinary journey rendered in glorious computer-generated images across a prehistoric landscape. It's a breath-taking example of purely visual storytelling. Unfortunately once the egg has landed and the (implausibly cute) dinosaur emerges the creatures around it open their mouths and talk and you suddenly realise you're watching a Disney movie. It's a shame but not a crippling one. This is closer to The Lion King than Walking With Dinosaurs or Jurassic Park the nice dinos are big-eyed and cute have all-American accents and are essentially heroic beasties who must band together to defeat the unscrupulous bad-guys and save the day (before becoming extinct - naturally). As far as the computer-generated dinosaurs (placed in actual locations) go this looks very nice indeed although its probably the only time in which Disney's thunder has been stolen by the BBC. Of course if you're looking for a Disney adventure that the family should enjoy you really can't go wrong with this. Although a touch more violent that one would usually expect from the House of Mouse (Dinosaurs tending to eat each other etc.) it retains the usual charms which distinguish most Disney output. Besides it's worth seeing for the opening sequence alone. DVD Version: Collector's Edition - 2 Discs Widescreen: 1.85:1 Stereo: Dolby Digital 5.1 (English) Subtitles: English/English for the hearing impared Special Features 'Behind The Scenes' features & production notes Interactive virtual reality game - Aladar's Adventure 'Dino-search' game 'Dino-pedia' fact files Insight into development Creating the characters Introduction to the digital production process 3D animator workbooks Music compositions Abandoned sequences ... Permission to Land The darkness release their long awaited debut album. Says frontman Justin of the Album 'Permission To Land is less of a request to moor the good ship Darkness rather a demand to shift the rest cluttering up Rock's Runaway'. The album includes the singles Get Your Hands Off My WomanGrowing On Me and I Believe In A Thing Called Love. ... Just One Look A convicted hitman suddenly confesses to a twenty-year-old murder - the slaying of a District Attorney's sister. Why he chose this moment to reveal his secret he refuses to reveal... A businessman tries to go on the run from his family home when an old photograph turns up in a new roll of film. A photograph of him as a young man. But on leaving his house he is immediately snatched by a vicious trained killer and bundled into the back of a waiting car. These things are linked but by what or whom no one knows. Only that the past is coming back to haunt the present and people are getting hurt... ... Complete Book of the Olympics 2008 Between the covers of this encyclopaedic book should be everything anyone could possibly need or want to know about the modern Olympic Games. There is a complete statistical record of every event since the foundation of the modern Games in 1896 - whether it be one of the highlights such as the 100 metres or the marathon newcomers like trampolining and tae kwon do or a long-discontinued discipline such as Olympic cricket. But the book offers more than the bare facts and figures. David Wallechinsky has sieved through more than a century of Olympic history to assemble a wealth of thought-provoking analysis and a collection of anecdotes and dramas that range from the inspiring through the comic to the bizarre. The topics range from issues such as drug use and corruption to long-forgotten characters such as the boy who was plucked from the streets of Paris to act as cox for two Dutch oarsmen in the paired-oar event in 1900 and after steering them to victory and a Gold Medal returned to obscurity his name unknown to this day. This edition fully updated to include the results of the Sydney Olympics and with hundreds of new anecdotes and observations added aims to be a 'bible' for sport fans following the drama of Athens 2008. ... Pursuit of History Why do we study history? How do we construct our knowledge of the past? How objective can it be? Addressing these key questions this study offers a short and clear introduction to the methods and nature of historical research. ...
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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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