“christopher barrow”

A comprehensive introduction, by one of the world's leading experts, to a neglected and ever more important form of agricultural irrigation --runoff agriculture. Runoff agriculture uses surface and subsurface water and enables small farmers as well as commercial agriculturalists to improve yields an... More

The production of a business plan is a commonplace challenge, yet it is essential to the future of any enterprise. Business plans are necessary to raise finance for new ventures and provide a blueprint for management in the future. Without such a plan, no bank or venture capital house will consider ... More

The continual degradation of the planet's environment is something that affects every person in every country, be it developed or developing. Statements and policies are made at international levels, but their effectiveness is questionable. Also, are techniques of environmental management (EM) used ... More

The Handbook of Business Enterprise has helped hundreds of participants on the Business Growth and Developemtn Programme achieve their ambitions. Many of their businesses have grown spectacularly while others have raised millions in new capital to fund expansion. Now it's your turn.... More

'If you are fascinated by the limits of knowledge, you will be richly rewarded by this book' New Scientist What can we never do? Barrow looks at what limits there might be to human discovery, and what we might find, ultimately, to be unknowable, undoable, or unthinkable. Science is a big success s... More

'Barrow explains nothing with great clarity, a lovely lightness of touch and enormous erudition' Spectator From the zeros of the mathematician to the void of the philosophers, from Shakespeare tot he empty set, from the ether to the quantum vacuum, from being and nothingness to creatio ex nihilo, th... More

'Fascinating-The major strength of the book lies in the diversity of topics discussed' Nature The constants of nature are the numbers that define the essence of the Universe. They tell us how strong its forces are, and what its fundamental laws can do: the strength of gravity, of magnetism, the spee... More

A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless. Everything you might want to know about infinity -- in history, and all the way to today's cutting-edge science.Throughout history, the Infinite has been a dangerous idea. Men have lost their lives, their careers, or their freedom for talking abo... More