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In Ed Miller's "getting started..." book, he recommends playing a short stack and he says to raise pairs down to 77 in late position. I don't understand the reasoning behind the move, nor how you could continue if you didn't hit your set. Can anyone explain it?

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I haven't read the book, but I think the raise allows you to represent a better hand and use position to steal the pot later. Let's say you raise preflop with 77 and two players call. If they both check to you on a drawless flop, you may be able to steal the pot with a 3/4 pot bet. Even if an Ace hits on the flop, you can represent top pair if they both check to you. The preflop raise gives you another way of winning the pot if you don't hit your set. It also builds the pot for when you do hit.