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　　Simon and Garfunkel once famously sang “I am a rock, I am an island”．It's a great song, but is simply isn't true! For whatever reason, we all seem afraid to ask for help, even from those closest to us, regardless of whether we need or deserve it．There's something in our society than seems to dictate that we have to do it all by ourselves-either the views that we'll be seen as weak, or just simply pride．

　　This, however, doesn't seem to be true of successful people．They haven't bought into the fallacy that asking for help is wrong．They know the truth that great things are achieved when people cooperate．

　　We all have different skills, knowledge and experiences．Each person you know is a whole new set of untapped(未使用的)reference material and expertise．So if you want to get hold of it and use it, all you have to do is ask them．People are rarely unwilling to assist-it's in our nature to be part of communities．

　　A good example I sometimes use in seminars is to pick a delegate at random and ask him how many people he knows in total．The usual answer is somewhere between 200 and 500．For the sake of this illustration, let's select the lower figure and call it 200．Then I ask the person how many people each of those people knows．On the assumption that they have similar-sized corc; es．they almost certainly know at least 200 people each．On this basis, the people within one degree of separation(1度分割理论：朋友的朋友形成一个小世界)for a person who knows 200 people comes to 40, 000-can you imagine the size of that experience and knowledge pool?

　　Looking as it this way, giving your friends, family and colleagues the opportunity to help you open your resource bank to thousands of people．That's a whole army of potential volunteers all waiting to be praised!

　　So, next time you need help, don't suffer in silence．Pick up the phone or mention it to a friend．You'll be pleasantly amazed at what you can achieve together．

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Tales From Animal Hospital

David Gram

　　David Gram has become a familiar face to millions of fans of Animal Hospital．Here Dr Gram tells us the very best of his personal stories about the animals he has treated, including familiar patients such as the dogs Snowy and Duchess, the delightful cat Marigold Serendipity Diamond．He also takes the reader behind the scenes at Harmsworth Memorial Animal Hospital as he describes his day, from ordinary medical check-ups to surgery(外科手术)．Tales From Animal Hospital will delight all fans of the programme and anyone who has a lively interest in their pet, whether it be cat, dog or snake!

　　￡14.99 Hardback 272pp Simon Schuster

　　ISBN 0751304417

　　Lsaac Newton：The Last sorcerer

　　Michael White

　　From the author of Stephen Hawking：A Life in Science, comes this colourful description of the life of the world’s first modern scientist．Interesting yet based on fact．Michael White’s learned yet readable new book offers a true picture of Newton completely different from what people commonly know about him．Newton is shown as a gifted scientist with very human weaknesses who stood at the point in history where magic(魔术)ended and science began．

　　￡18.99 Hardback 320pp Fourth Estate

　　ISBN 1857024168

　　Fermat’s Last Theorem

　　Simon Singh

　　In 1963 a schoolboy called Andrew Wiles reading in his school library came across the world’s greatest mathematical problem：Fermat’s Last Theorem(定理)．First put forward by the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat in the seventeenth century, the theorem had baffled and beaten the finest mathematical minds, including a French woman scientist who made a major advance in working out the problem, and who had to dress like a man in order to be able to study at the Ecole Polytechnique．Through unbelievable determination Andrew Wiles finally worked out the problem in 1995．An unusual story of human effort over three centuries, Fermat’s Last Theorem will delight specialists and general readers alike．

　　￡12.99 Hardback 384pp Fourth Estate

　　ISBN 1857025210

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