A retired high school teacher who also worked as a bilingual puppeteer and artist-in-residence for the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Handler has been a dedicated poet since her retirement. Sheila Handler of Provincetown has published her fourth volume of poetry. Available at Provincetown Bookshop and Provincetown Art Association and Museum) 'Poems from Earth and Wind,' by Sheila Handler (Sheila Handler, P.O. I matured.' Rivalries aside, who doesn't love baseball history? Gittleman writes a loving history of the 'Big Three' - Yankees pitchers Allie Pierce Reynolds, Victor Raschi and Eddie Lopat (originally Lopatynski) - who helped rewrite Yankees and baseball history during a pivotal five-year reign on the mound.

In his accompanying note, he wrote that he 'was a Yankee fan as a kid growing up, but no more. Here's a baseball book all lovers of the sport will appreciate - even if it is about the Yankees! Sol Gittleman, a professor of literature and history at Tufts University, summers in Cotuit. 'Reynolds, Raschi and Lopat: New York's Big Three and the Great Yankee Dynasty of 1949-1953,' by Sol Gittleman (McFarland, ISBN 978-0-7864-3055-0, 230 pages, $25.95) The essays put subjects like stem cell research, the evolution versus intelligent design debate and alternative medicine in historical context, but are written with the general reader in mind. Author of eight books, including 'Woods Hole Cantata,' 'Darwin's Audubon' and 'The Year of the Genome,' he's now published a collection of 20 essays that cover some of the hottest scientific and medical topics of our time. Gerald Weissmann, a research professor of medicine and director of the Biotechnology Study Center at New York University School of Medicine, divides his time between New York City and Woods Hole.

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