Northeastern University Libraries

The Northeastern Universities Libraries provides a generous handful events to the Boston community FREE every month. This month, the library is hosting three Meet the Author events. General information is included below. For more information, visit www.lib.neu.edu.

Back by popular demand, Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein return to Snell Library to share their newest book, titled "Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife and Everything in Between." The pair uses a witty and lighthearted approach to examine what major philosophers such as Kierkegaard, Descartes, and Sartre wrote about death.

Open to the public. FREE BREAKFAST included.

Held in room 90 Snell on October 24, 2009 at 10:30 AM.

For more information, visit www.lib.neu.edu 

Sponsored by Northeastern University Libraries, the Northeastern Office of Admissions, and the Northeastern Bookstore.

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Lynne Joiner, author of “Honorable Survivor: Mao’s China, McCarthy’s America and the Persecution of John. S. Service”

Lynne Joiner is an award winning broadcast journalist, news anchor, and documentary filmmaker. She tells the true story of John S. Service, a U.S. Foreign Service Officer in wartime China who had the misfortune of predicting Mao Tse-Tsung’s revolution when no U.S. policymakers would listen. The book describes Service’s later trials and tribulations at the height of McCarthyism.

Open to the public. FREE LUNCH included.

Held in room 90 Snell on October 23, 2009 at 12:00 PM.

For more information, visit www.lib.neu.edu 

Part of Parent’s Weekend Programming. Sponsored by Northeastern University Libraries, the NU School of Journalism and the Northeastern University Bookstore.

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Christos Papidamitriou, author of “Logicomix”

This beautiful graphic novel tells the true story of Bertrand Russell, British logician, anti-war activist, and Nobel Prize winner, and his colleagues in the fields of math, science, and philosophy. It is set against the historical backdrop of major twentieth century events, including the two World Wars, and explores Russell’s passionate quest for mathematical truth.

Open to the public. FREE LUNCH included.

Held in room 90 Snell on October 23, 2009 at 12:00 PM.

For more information, visit www.lib.neu.edu 

Sponsored by Northeastern University Libraries and the Northeastern University Bookstore.