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  Renewable energy finance:...

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  To make renewables bankable, investors need assurances against default due to various country-level risks. This brief examines sovereign guarantees and other risk mitigation options.

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  Kargil - From Surprise To Victory

  V.P. Malik

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  In February 1999, Pakistani Army personnel, disguised as jihadi militants, infiltrated into mountainous Kargil and occupied key vantage points. Their intrusion triggered a limited war between the world's newest nuclear states. It was a bitter battle, and one that threw up important lessons for India's defence preparedness, as also its responses to conflicts such as this. This incisive book by General V.P. Malik, former Chief of the Army Staff, analyses the reasoning behind the Pakistani Army's moves and tactics and reviews crucial issues such as the extent of intelligence and surveillance failure on the Indian side and the measures necessary to redress these failings. Away from questions of strategy and tactics, however, Kargil is also a reminder of the unalloyed heroism that was on display during those grim weeks, heroism that become a benchmark for valour.

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  Raising Chicken for Beginners -...

  Emma Bennet

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  "Raising Chickens for Beginners: From Coop Design to Egg Collecting" is a comprehensive guidebook for novice poultry enthusiasts embarking on their chicken-raising journey. This book provides a step-by-step approach to every aspect of chicken farming, offering practical advice and expert tips to ensure success from the ground up. From selecting the perfect breed to constructing a functional coop and managing nutrition, health, and egg production, this guide covers all the essentials to raise happy, healthy chickens. 
  The guidebook offers detailed information on coop design, including essential features, ventilation, predator-proofing, and nesting box setup. It also provides practical insights into chicken behavior, flock dynamics, and environmental considerations, enabling readers to create a safe and stimulating environment for their feathered friends. It also addresses common challenges and solutions, such as behavioral issues, environmental factors, and signs of illness, ensuring that readers are equipped to handle any situation. 
  Furthermore, "Raising Chickens for Beginners" emphasizes the joy and satisfaction of chicken keeping, from the daily routine of collecting fresh eggs to the companionship and connection with nature that comes with nurturing a flock. Whether readers are interested in starting a small backyard flock or expanding their poultry husbandry knowledge, this guide is a valuable resource for beginners and experienced poultry keepers alike. With its practical advice, expert insights, and engaging style, this book will inspire and inform anyone eager to embark on their chicken-raising adventure.

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  Astrotopia - The Dangerous...

  Mary-Jane Rubenstein

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  As environmental, political, and public health crises multiply on Earth, we are also at the dawn of a new space race in which governments team up with celebrity billionaires to exploit the cosmos for human gain. The best-known of these pioneers are selling different visions of the future: while Elon Musk and SpaceX seek to establish a human presence on Mars, Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin work toward moving millions of earthlings into rotating near-Earth habitats. Despite these distinctions, these two billionaires share a core utopian project: the salvation of humanity through the exploitation of space. 
   
   
    
  In Astrotopia, philosopher of science and religion Mary-Jane Rubenstein pulls back the curtain on the not-so-new myths these space barons are peddling, like growth without limit, energy without guilt, and salvation in a brand-new world. As Rubenstein reveals, we have already seen the destructive effects of this frontier zealotry in the centuries-long history of European colonialism. But Rubenstein does more than expose the values of capitalist technoscience as the product of bad mythologies. She offers a vision of exploring space without reproducing the atrocities of earthly colonialism, encouraging us to find and even make stories that put cosmic caretaking over profiteering.

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  Empower Your Nonprofit - Simple...

  Amy Neumann

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  Empower Your Nonprofit is a comprehensive, accessible, and highly practical guide to harnessing the power of emerging AI technologies in the nonprofit sector. This book delivers strategic research, tools, case studies, and advice to help nonprofits advance their missions through AI, with interviews, outlooks, testimonials, and quotes from nonprofit leaders and influencers in the AI industry delivering key insight to all listeners regardless of technical expertise. 
   
   
   
  Listeners will learn how to practically resolve the top ten most common nonprofit pain points through the utilization of AI, backed by current case studies of AI implementation for core nonprofit functions like fundraising, grants, marketing, and initiative event optimization. In this book, listeners will find information on the nonprofit sector's critical missions, success factors, challenges, and needs of today; AI as a way to automate inefficient internal processes, freeing talent to work on more inspired projects; and tools, tips, and tricks to get started with AI as soon as today. 
   
   
   
  Empower Your Nonprofit earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of all nonprofit leaders and involved donors seeking a comprehensive step-by-step guidebook on how this exciting new technology can be leveraged for greater nonprofit success.

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  Gentle and Fierce - Essays

  Vanessa Berry

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  To be gentle is to resist the privileging of command above compassion. It is a quiet voice, a persistent whisper, calm and consoling. Ferocity is an armour, a forceful expression of resolve and protection. To be fierce is to know the intensity of the edges of feeling. It is the voice that calls out, intending to be heard.  
  Gentle and Fierce focuses on the world that humans share with animals. Having spent her life in city environments, Vanessa Berry’s experiences with animals have largely been through encounters in urban settings, representations in art and the media, and as decorative ornaments or kitsch. The essays in Gentle and Fierce suggest that these encounters provide meaningful connections, at a time when our shared world is threatened by environmental destruction. Berry responds with attentiveness and empathy to her subjects, which include a stuffed Kodiak bear, a Japanese island overrun by rabbits, a porcelain otter and Georges Perec’s cat. The essays are accompanied by Berry’s illustrations, which reflect her eye for detail and her background as an artist and zine maker. 
  Who better than Vanessa Berry, with her pointillist attention and sly humour to document the surprising ways that animals enrich, inform and shadow our human natures. Whether recollecting Frank a taxidermied Kodiak bear, noting the snails that turn letters to Sylvia Plath into lace, or zipping together a personal history with flies, Berry elevates and commemorates those lives that are entangled – too often invisibly – with our own. Ethically astute, formally clever and deftly political, Gentle and Fierce evokes the work of John Berger and Jenny Odell. An urgent and poignant reminder of what we have lost and might yet gain from the more-than-human world. – Mireille Juchau

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