Bob Cousy was by all accounts one of the finest ball-handlers to have played pro basketball.  But his story, told in “The Last Pass”, is part of a bigger picture, of a team that won 5 straight titles and of teammates who were in the forefront of civil right controversies.    “Brief Answers to the big Questions” by Stephen Hawking probes the mysteries of time and space; “Identity Crisis” by John Sides probes the mysteries of 2016. “Killing the SS” by William O’Reilly is a breathless account of the hunt for Nazi war criminals.