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WH Smith Online Store: Shopping Online at WH Smith UK Is So Easy! - 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. ... Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance (PS2) A new take on Hideo Kojima's bestselling tale of stealth heroism and double-crossing. Featuring new missions characters and settings created by the same team Metal Gear Solid 2 Substance retains the ground breaking stealth-based action of its predecessor with players guiding a series of characters through key terrorist situations. Solid Snake and his protégé Raiden return to the PlayStation 2 fold and their various abilities are further showcased in 150 alternative missions and across 350 VR missions designed to test their agility stealth and weapons skills within virtual reality scenarios where the normal rules of combat are altered to push the player to new levels. The game also drops Snake into five new 'Snake Tales' set within environments seen in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. The release includes The Document of Metal Gear Solid 2 DVD offering an overview of the game and allowing the player an unprecedented look into how it was created. ... Hamptons Diet: Lose Weight Quickly and Safely with the Doctor's Delicious Meal Plans The Atkins diet meets The South Beach Diet ... dieting secrets of the rich famous - and thin! Atkins results. Hamptons style. As the former medical director of the Atkins Center and a frequent guest on radio and television Dr. Fred Pescatore is one of today's most highly visible low-carb diet doctors. And his visibility is sure to increase now that he is taking over the customer base of the Atkins Center following Dr. Atkins's untimely death in early 2008. Building on the low-carb Mediterranean-style diet plan he pioneered in Thin For Good Dr. Pescatore now presents The Hamptons Diet a program that introduces a secret ingredient - macadamia nut oil the most monounsaturated oil on the planet - among other delicious components. Complete with 30-day meal plans featuring more than 100 mouthwatering recipes from celebrity chefs and just in time for the summer beach season The Hamptons Diet is 2008's exciting new low-carb diet book - a deliciously satisfying medically sound weight-loss program that can help anyone slim down and feel like the rich famous and thin. Fred Pescatore MD (New York NY East Hampton NY and Dallas T-X) is the head of the Centers for Integrative and Complementary Medicine and the author of Thin For Good (0-471-41012-8). ... Carol Vorderman's Maths Made Easy Ages 9-10 Book 2 This Key Stage 2 home-study workbook is designed to reinforce all aspects of children's school work. The exercises have been written in line with the National Curriculum requirements for maths incorporating the latest developments in the implementation of the National Numeracy Strategy. Gold stickers are provided as a reward for the child to put on each completed page. A fold-out fill-in achievement chart make it easy for children to see their progress and there is a certificate to award on completion of each book. A pull-out answer section with parents' notes provides hints and tips and describes how the scheme links with the National Curriculum in the UK and the general curriculum order in the US and Australia. ... Ahead of the Class Imagine a school where the staff are too fearful to leave the staffroom at breaktime where stealing and absenteeism are rife where vicious fights continually break out in the bleak playground and children wander the corridors chatting on mobile phones. Now imagine a school where children turn up early to have breakfast and play football in a playground furnished with goalposts and attractive plants where the corridors are empty and classrooms full during lessons where classical music plays over the intercom and where pupils welcome visitors such as Lenny Henry Ralph Fiennes and Cherie Blair to give talks. This is the transformation that Marie Stubbs effected at St George's an inner-city comprehensive in London's Maida Vale. The school had gone into decline after the murder of its head Philip Lawrence outside the school gates in 1995. When Marie Stubbs took over it was threatened with closure after a damning Ofsted report. St George's pupils had been depicted in the press as demons but within 15 months this 61-year-old grandmother had given them back their self-respect. Attendance rose examination results improved and in March 2001 the school received a glowing report from Ofsted. Marie Stubbs' approach combines conviction imagination old-fashioned discipline and modern management techniques. This is her account of how she and her chosen task force turned round the school that had lost hope. ... Depressive Illness The Curse of the Strong In contrast to many books on depression this text takes the view that those most susceptible to depression are people with strong personalities. Being naturally conscientious and reliable they tend to carry on under great stress where weaker people would simply give up. In the end the burden becomes too much and they succumb to depression rather like a rubber band which will snap if stretched too far. The work attempts to explain the cause of depression and how it can be treated - by looking after yourself antidepressant treatments and talking therapies. ...
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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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