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Northeastern holiday gift guide 2022: The best reads for the bookworm in your life
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Northeastern holiday gift guide 2022: The best reads for the bookworm in your life

Human rights should be a factor in philanthropic giving, writes Northeastern professor in new book
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Human rights should be a factor in philanthropic giving, writes Northeastern professor in new book

Looking for a book to curl up with this winter? Try these recommendations.

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Looking for a book to curl up with this winter? Try these recommendations.

Here are some books on the Black experience to add to your bookshelf
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Here are some books on the Black experience to add to your bookshelf

Here’s how Northeastern’s Snell Library reinvented itself during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Here’s how Northeastern’s Snell Library reinvented itself during the COVID-19 pandemic

What LSD, mushrooms, and toad venom taught Michael Pollan about spirituality
Throughout his psychedelic trips, Pollan experienced epiphanies of love, which, he acknowledges, can ring banal. Some of his visions left him crying. As he recovered from the abject nothingness set forth by the venomous toad, he experienced a profound sense of gratitude for his being. Photo by Adam Glanzman for Northeastern University

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What LSD, mushrooms, and toad venom taught Michael Pollan about spirituality

What the 311 system can tell us about the future of smart cities
Boston’s 311 reporting system is the subject of O’Brien’s latest book, The Urban Commons: How Data and Technology Can Rebuild Our Communities. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

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What the 311 system can tell us about the future of smart cities

What do Beyoncé, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Sandra Day O’Connor have in common? Empowdered Sugar, a cookbook celebrating famous women in pop culture, politics, and history.
Empowdered Sugar celebrates the accomplishments of famous women in pop culture, politics, and history. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

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What do Beyoncé, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Sandra Day O’Connor have in common? Empowdered Sugar, a cookbook celebrating famous women in pop culture, politics, and history.

Northeastern University graduate Kenzie Swanhart, who promotes her recipes on QVC, has co-authored The New Newlywed Cookbook to ‘celebrate the partnership of cooking’
Northeastern graduates Kenzie Swanhart and Julien Levesquev say that their culinary partnership was built in the kitchen of a small apartment in Boston’s Fenway neighborhood. Now the duo is about to release The New Newlywed Cookbook: 100 Recipes for Every Couple to Cook Together to unite people through the joys of cooking and eating. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

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Northeastern University graduate Kenzie Swanhart, who promotes her recipes on QVC, has co-authored The New Newlywed Cookbook to ‘celebrate the partnership of cooking’

Here’s how the scribblings of John Adams might help build a better search engine

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Here’s how the scribblings of John Adams might help build a better search engine

Philip Roth remembered as an ‘acerbic recorder of Jewish life’

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Philip Roth remembered as an ‘acerbic recorder of Jewish life’

Professor’s book explores the essence of comics—from superheroes, to sex, to the suburbs

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Professor’s book explores the essence of comics—from superheroes, to sex, to the suburbs