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1Concept of Nature

By Alfred North Whitehead

In <i>The Concept of Nature</i>, Alfred North Whitehead discusses the interrelatedness of time, space, and human perception.<BR />The idea of objects as 'occasions of experience', arguments against body-mind duality and the search for an all-encompassing 'philosophy of nature' are examined, with specific reference to contemporary (Einstein, with whose theory of relativity he has some complaints) and ancient (Plato, Aristotle) approaches. (Summary by mb)

LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 different recordings of <em>The Je Ne Scai Quoi</em> by William Whitehead. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of March 30th, 2008.

3Hunting In Many Lands

By Henry T. Allen, George S. Anderson, Daniel Moreau Barringer, Winthrop Chanler, George H. Gould, Madison Grant, William Woodville Rockhill, Theodore Roosevelt, Elliott Bulloch Roosevelt, Alden Sampson, Henry L. Stimson, Charles E. Whitehead, Caspar W. Whitney and Roger D. Williams

The first volume published by the Boone and Crockett Club, entitled "American Big Game Hunting," confined itself to sport on the American continent. This second volume presents a number of interesting sketches written by club members who have hunted big game in other lands. Essays include: Hunting in East Africa, To the Gulf of Cortez, A Canadian Moose Hunt, A Hunting Trip in India, Dog Sledging in the North, Wolf-Hunting in Russia, A Bear-Hunt in the Sierras, The Ascent of Chief Mountain, The Cougar, Big Game of Mongolia and Tibet, Hunting in the Cattle Country, Wolf-Coursing, Game Laws, and Protection of the Yellowstone National Park. - Summary by Michele Fry

Gather 'round for a pair of West Indies folk horror stories ripped from the pages of Weird Tales Magazine brought to you by master of the weird Henry S. Whitehead! - Summary by Ben Tucker

5Science and the Modern World

By Alfred North Whitehead

It is fortunate that in the twentieth century, science and philosophy are beginning to be united in the same person as they were in the seventeenth century before their fatal divorce occurred. Prof. Whitehead's latest book cries out to be read and re-read and meditated upon (and to that end if possible possessed) by every man of science who is not content to live merely in his own special‘; groove of routine ’ and is concerned in the trend and tendency of science as a whole; and by every philosopher who desires, as he must, to keep himself in contact with the thoughts of science. It is a work not only of the first importance but also of great beauty. Apart from the vivid writing, the reader's delight arises from two sources: in the first place, from the rapid characterisation of the various epochs into which Prof. Whitehead divides the history of modern scientific thought; and secondly, from his method of pointing out in each epoch just how the central thought of the epoch bears, in the way of contribution or of defect, upon the central thought of the present as the author conceives it. The poet prefiguring him wrote: ‘ and as he works, the industrious bee computes his time as well as we.’ One result of this procedure is that while the bulk of each historical chapter is simple and luminous reading, each chapter contains a few pages which demand the closest attention, but work with cumulative preparation towards the dramatic outcome. - Summary by S Alexander