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...prospect of another difficult read might make readers wary of taking on the University of Cambridge physicist's latest work, The Universe in a Nutshell (Bantam; 216 pages; $35). That would be a loss. Hawking takes on plenty of intimidating topics in Nutshell, including space-time geometry, quantum mechanics and the ominously titled M-theory. But he does it in a much more accessible way this time, using plenty of comprehensible analogies and no small amount of humor, often self-deprecating. Example: "Newton occupied the Lucasian chair at Cambridge that I now hold, though it wasn't electrically operated...
...Sisters Ada and Rosella are part. Since 1986, University of Kentucky scientist David Snowdon has been studying 678 School Sisters--painstakingly researching their personal and medical histories, testing them for cognitive function and even dissecting their brains after death. Over the years, as he explains in Aging with Grace (Bantam; $24.95), a moving, intensely personal account of his research that arrives in bookstores this week, Snowdon and his colleagues have teased out a series of intriguing--and quite revealing--links between lifestyle and Alzheimer...
Unlike many contemporary memoirists, Susan Travers waited to write her first book until its publication would no longer cause a scandal. At 91, the British-born Travers can rest easy. Tomorrow to Be Brave (Bantam Press; 287 pages) won't damage any careers or break any hearts. The book, which tells the fascinating story of the only woman ever to serve in the French Foreign Legion, is a rich, rewarding read. The Legion takes recruits from all over the world, subjects them to grueling training in some of the bleakest spots on earth and spits them out, five years later...
...yesterday's featured match pitted Harvard's Deepak Abraham against Trinity's Michael Ferreira, an English phenom who has earned the No. 1 position in a Bantam lineup loaded with international talent...
DEATH EDUCATION Honesty is the best policy with grieving children, say Mary Ann and James Emswiler, the authors of Guiding Your Child Through Grief (Bantam). "Death education should be like sex education," they say. "Of course, you'll want to make sure your child understands what dead means (that the body doesn't work anymore--no feeling, no seeing, no breathing) before you explain subjects like cremation or embalming...