|
WHSmith Online Bookstore: The Leading UK High Street Store - Online! - Kisscut In a small Southern town in America a teenage quarrel explodes into a deadly gun battle. When the smoke clears the police chief and the medical examiner are blocked at every turn of their investigation by the families and children who all close ranks. ... Exclusive - Were going on a bear hunt cd Story music games and activities based on the favourite children's book. ... Air Battle Force Maverick pilot Patrick McLanahan takes aerial warfare into unknown territory in an explosive new adventure from the bestselling author of FLIGHT OF THE OLD DOG WARRIOR CLASS and WINGS OF FIRE. On America's newest combat base McLanahan and his crew are devising the air combat unit of the future -- the Air Battle Force. An elite team backed by leading-edge technology they control an armada of unmanned planes that can reach any spot on the globe within hours and they will have their first target when an oil dispute turns Turkmenistan into an international battleground. But can a handful of commandos and an unproven force of experimental warplanes fight and win a war in which seemingly everyone -- even 'friendly' forces at home -- wants them to fail? ... I'm a Teacher Get Me Out of Here At last here it is. The book that tells you the unvarnished truth about teaching. By turns hilarious sobering and downright horrifying it contains the sort of information that you won't find in any school prospectus government advert newspaper article or Hollywood film. In this memoir Francis Gilbert candidly describes the remarkable way in which he was trained to be a teacher his terrifying first lesson and his even more frightening experiences in his first job at Truss comprehensive one of the worst schools in the country. Follow Gilbert on his roller coaster journey through the world that is the English education system; encounter thuggish and charming children terrible and brilliant teachers; learn about the sinister effects of school inspectors and the teacher's disease of 'controloholism'; and spy on what really goes on behind the closed doors of inner-city schools. ... Angel Series 4 Part 1 (VHS) It's fair to say there's a bit of tension in LA with Angel in a watery grave Cordelia a higher being Wesley something of an outcast and Connor a stroppy teen. Cue impending armageddon... ... Last Of The Summer Wine Box Set - (DVD) First transmitted in 1973 this release features every episode from series One And Two of The Last Of The Summer Wine. EPISODE TITLES: Short Back And Palais Glide Inventor Of the 40 Foot Ferret Pate and Chips Spring Fever The New Mobile Trio Hail smiling Morn or Thereabouts Forked Lightning Who's that Dancing Wit Nora Batty then? The Changing Face Of Rural Blamire Some Enchanted Evening A Quiet Drink Ballad For Wind Instruments and Canoe Northern Flying Circus... ...
|
|
|
WHSmith Online Bookstore: The Leading UK High Street Store - Online!
|
|
| |
Shop online with
WHSmith - The Leading UK Retailer. Books, Stationery, Games, DVD & Video...and more!
|
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.
[Prime Source: WH Smith Plc. Content edited for presentation]
|
|
|
World Bookstore - for Quality Encyclopedia and Reference Books
World Book Encyclopedia 2010
|
|
|
|
|
