http://online.wsj.com/page/2_1167.html Books en-us copyright © 2008 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:52:43 EST http://online.wsj.com/img/wsj_sm_logo.gif http://online.wsj.com/page/2_1167.html http://collegejournal.com/article/SB122723292370246631.html?mod=rss_Books Niall Ferguson's "The Ascent of Money" is a timely reminder of the nexus between financial innovation and human progress. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:37:02 EST http://collegejournal.com/article/SB122731603896849837.html?mod=rss_Books Modern students balk at puzzling through Chaucer's medieval English. This is one reason why Burton Raffel has rendered "The Canterbury Tales" into modern English and mostly into verse. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:41:44 EST http://collegejournal.com/article/SB122731578183649807.html?mod=rss_Books As Thanksgiving nears, Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim picks her favorite rare books on early America. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:41:44 EST http://collegejournal.com/article/SB122668163226028735.html?mod=rss_Books Michael Barson, author of "True West: An Illustrated Guide to the Heyday of the Western," talks about cowboys and comics. Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:27:44 EST http://collegejournal.com/article/SB122714489697843157.html?mod=rss_Books How therapists and 'victims' seized on the idea of repressed memory, leveling false charges and ruining lives. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:43:24 EST http://collegejournal.com/article/SB122705760206139499.html?mod=rss_Books When ostrich feathers were in vogue, traders thought they would remain popular forever. Fortunes were lost. Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:50:58 EST http://collegejournal.com/article/SB122697432064836099.html?mod=rss_Books Margaret Thatcher: principled, charismatic and infuriatingly sure of herself. Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:26:48 EST http://collegejournal.com/article/SB122662043543126435.html?mod=rss_Books Without strong editors, writers are like cars with accelerators but no brakes, writes Cynthia Crossen. Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:27:27 EST http://collegejournal.com/article/SB122670139623729593.html?mod=rss_Books Photographer Annie Leibovitz's new book shows how she created some of her most celebrated photographs. Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:00:58 EST http://collegejournal.com/article/SB122688691348032415.html?mod=rss_Books Soldiers and savants try to transform a backward and oppressed culture. Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:29:52 EST http://collegejournal.com/article/SB122687265269431769.html?mod=rss_Books We've asked successful veterans from across various industries which books have influenced their management styles. Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:42:48 EST http://collegejournal.com/article/SB122671469296530435.html?mod=rss_Books In the thoroughly engaging "Outliers," author Malcolm Gladwell asserts that success seems to stem as much from context as from personal attributes. Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:55:52 EST http://collegejournal.com/article/SB122671590779130529.html?mod=rss_Books "In the Town All Year 'Round" is an accessible and entertaining wordless picture book that will draw small children to its large, glossy pages and keep them there. Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:46:58 EST http://collegejournal.com/article/SB122662959686427265.html?mod=rss_Books In "Ziegfield," the fabled history of famous theatrical producer Florenz Ziegfield is made fresh again. Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:58:45 EST http://collegejournal.com/article/SB122663468120427695.html?mod=rss_Books To his sorrow, a U.N. devotee saw the Oil for Food fiasco firsthand. Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:05:51 EST http://collegejournal.com/article/SB122654078549123177.html?mod=rss_Books The Civil War years of the Whitman sons, including Walt. The diaries of a soldier-brother influenced his poems. Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:52:00 EST http://collegejournal.com/article/SB122644756360418951.html?mod=rss_Books The James Bond from the books is a different character than the one seen in films. Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:40:43 EST http://collegejournal.com/article/SB122636808284616069.html?mod=rss_Books In "Death of a Gunfighter," Dan Rottenberg tries to get to the bottom of the story of Jack Slade, who was by all accounts the wrath of God when the West was still wild. Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:21:00 EST http://collegejournal.com/article/SB122635800348015413.html?mod=rss_Books Michael Crichton aspired to be more than a mere entertainer. He was fundamentally a novelist of ideas. Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:07:52 EST http://collegejournal.com/article/SB122628271049312453.html?mod=rss_Books Ted Turner was given a substantial cash advance for his autobiography, "Call Me Ted," which faces stiff competition from titles penned by Warren Buffett and T. Boone Pickens. Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:15:00 EST http://collegejournal.com/article/SB122602136426807289.html?mod=rss_Books Toni Morrison on her new novel, reading her critics and what Barack Obama's win means to her. Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:00:00 EST http://collegejournal.com/article/SB122611009677110535.html?mod=rss_Books Author Jay Parini identifies essential works that altered America's thinking in his book "Promised Land." Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:44:00 EST http://collegejournal.com/article/SB122601669935806895.html?mod=rss_Books V.S. Naipaul, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2001, sometimes seems like a mandarin literary figure from another age -- the Tolstoy of his time. Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:32:00 EST