The Wheat Problem: Based on Remarks Made in the Presidential Address to the British Association at Bristol in 1898

by William Crookes

About the Book

Books that are a Catalog, or Catalogue, can refer to the catlogs that contain a listing of the books contained in a library or about almost any topic that requires classification and / or categorization, including art exhibitions and music collections. Titles include: A Catalogue of Italian Renaissance Woodcuts, A Catalogue of the Birds of the West Indies, A Catalogue of the Original Works of John Wyclif, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Historical Manuscripts in the Arabic and Persian Languages, Catalogue of Etchings and Dry-points, Catalogue of the Castellani collection of antiquities in the University Galleries, Oxford, Catalogue of the plants of Los Angeles county, Flora of Norfolk: A Catalogue of Plants Found in the County of Norfolk, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Catalogue of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Vases.

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Books about Contemporary Political Science discuss the issues that determine how countries, and communities are governed, draws on fields such as history, economics and philosophy. Titles include: English Socialism of To-Day: Its Teaching and Its Aims Examined, Popular Government; Four Essays (1885), The League of Nations at work, Why men fight; a method of abolishing the international duel, The veto power, its origin, development and function in the government of the United States (1789-1889), and Representative Government in England; Its Faults and Failures.

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Books about the Political Process discuss how political parties and political movements are formed, elections are conducted, and how governments are formed. Titles include: A Brief Enquiry Into the True Nature and Character of Our Federal Government, A Manual of Government in Canada, British Aristocracy and the House of Lords, Election by lot at Athens, How England is governed, Towards international government, The Foundations of American Constitutional Government, and The Empire on the anvil, being suggestions and data for the future government of the British Empire.

308 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1976

About the author

Sir William Crookes, OM, FRS (17 June 1832 – 4 April 1919) was a British chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, London, and worked on spectroscopy. He was a pioneer of vacuum tubes, inventing the Crookes tube. Crookes was the inventor of the Crookes radiometer, which today is made and sold as a novelty item.