THE HIDDEN LIFE OF DOGS By Elizabeth Marshall Thomas. Pocket Books, $5.99. An anthropologist and novelist imparts a canine view of the world, gleaned from her own dogs, whose daily peregrinations she followed. Her close observations support the theory that our pets do indeed think and feel. In 1993 our reviewer, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, described the book as "informative, delightful, innovative and full of an intimate knowledge." Also reissued is the groundbreaking MAN MEETS DOG, by Konrad Lorenz, translated by Marjorie Kerr Wilson (Kodansha, $12), which looks at the origins of the bond between animal and master. "Anyone with a minimum interest in either cats or dogs can spend a rewarding and entertaining evening with this book," Thomas Foster said in The New York Times in 1955.

WHERE DO YOU STOP? The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy (Continued) By Eric Kraft. Picador USA, $10. The subject of this novel follows a Proustian path, remembering his youth with vivid imagery and more than a little imagination. He enjoys not only the advantage of hindsight but also the freedom to rearrange and reinterpret events ranging from his junior high school classes to his first encounters with the opposite sex. In 1992 our reviewer, Walter Satterthwait, called the result a "sly and extremely funny book" in which the author "is at play . . . in the very best sense of the word." Picador USA has also reissued Mr. Kraft's LITTLE FOLLIES: The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy (So Far) ($13), which takes the hero from his crib to the cusp of puberty. Originally published as a series of short novels, it is "a real delight," Robert Plunket said here in 1985. HYPERSPACE: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension By Michio Kaku. Anchor/Doubleday, $14.95. The author jigs along the border separating physics and theology, speculating on the origin of the universe as a system with 10 dimensions instead of three. Last year our reviewer, Malcolm W. Browne, said of the book, "What a wonderful adventure it is, trying to think the unthinkable!" Science and spirituality -- and the attempts to reconcile the two -- are also explored in GOD'S LAUGHTER: Man and His Cosmos, by Gerhard Staguhn, translated by Steve Lake and Caroline Mahl (Kodansha, $13). A German journalist, Mr. Staguhn looks at the beliefs of cosmologists from earliest antiquity to the present. In 1992 one critic called it "an elegant, thoroughgoing, occasionally profound inquiry." One of the most influential thinkers in the discipline is celebrated in EINSTEIN: A Life in Science, by Michael White and John Gribbin (Plume, $11.95). "Mr. Gribbin's metaphors and analogies fairly propel you toward understanding" Einstein's triumphs in physics, Robert Kanigel said here last year. MARBLE SKIN By Slavenka Drakulic. Translated by Greg Mosse. Harper Perennial, $11. An artist makes a sculpture of her mother's body, a deeply symbolic work that causes the woman who inspired it to attempt suicide and her daughter to unveil all the hidden complexities of their relationship. " 'Marble Skin' is a novel that quietly comes at you, putting ice into your blood long before you're aware of it," Nicholas Christopher said here last year. CHILD-LOVING: The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture By James R. Kincaid. Routledge, $16.95. The author argues that today's obsession with the potential sexual abuse of minors is actually more extreme than that of the Victorians, whose fearful pronouncements only served to emphasize children as erotic objects. In 1993 our reviewer, Walter Kendrick, said, "He displays formidable erudition, but his style is rarely academic." Our forebears had conflicted feelings about aggression as well as sexuality, Peter Gay notes in THE CULTIVATION OF HATRED: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud. Volume III (Norton, $15), which was reviewed here by Mr. Kincaid. While condemning violence and enmity, the Victorians also found socially acceptable ways to channel them, from the playing of sports to the meting out of punishment. "The best feature of this volume . . . is the author's respect for the complexity of the Victorian bourgeoisie," Mr. Kincaid said in 1993. WHAT IS TOLD By Askold Melnyczuk. Faber & Faber, $11.95. Stretching from Eastern Europe to New Jersey and from the 10th century to the present, this narrative follows the fortunes of the Zabobon family, Ukrainian-Americans with more than a few ghosts in their past. Last year our reviewer, Alida Becker, called the book an "inventive, enormously assured novel." COMPULSORY HAPPINESS By Norman Manea. Translated by Linda Coverdale. Northwestern University, $13.95. Written by a survivor of both a Nazi concentration camp and the Ceausescu regime in Romania, these four novellas explore the terrors and isolation of life within a totalitarian society. Their protagonists are often tortured, either physically or spiritually. In 1993 our reviewer, Lore Segal, said, "These are the century's classic themes, but Mr. Manea's voice is radically new, and we are blessedly awakened and alerted by the demand his fiction makes on our understanding." DAYBREAK By Belva Plain. Dell, $6.99. This tale has the ring of recent headlines: two infants are switched at birth, and their real identities are discovered only during their adolescence, when one dies of a genetic disease. "Sheer voyeurism keeps us reading all the way," Jean Hanff Korelitz said here last year. LAUREL GRAEBER
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