The reconstruction, led by science historian John van Wyhe of the National University of Singapore, catalogs more than 195,000 pages of text and 5,000 illustrations. The project began in 2006 when van ...

DARWIN AND THE BEAGLE by Alan Moorehead. Illustrated. 280 pages. Harper & Row. $15.Any pleasant Sunday afternoon aboard H.M.S. Beagle, outward bound from Plymouth in 1831 on a scientific voyage ...

Stephen King, Author, Peter S. Beagle, Author, Laura Kasischke, Author. Underland $14.95 (318p) ISBN 978-0-9802260-8-9 Brockmeier (The Brief History of the Dead ) compiles 20 eclectic and ...

USA TODAY’s Jocelyn McClurg scopes out the hottest books on sale each week. 1. “Target Alex Cross” by James Patterson (Little, Brown, fiction, on sale Nov. 19) What it’s about: Alex Cross ...