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1. 1. Flood

   

   An intense disaster thriller that follows the collapse of London's flood defenses when an unprecedented storm surge overwhelms the Thames, plunging the city into chaos. Through interwoven perspectives—emergency crews, engineers, politicians and ordinary families—the narrative traces desperate rescue operations, political and technical failures, and personal sacrifices as people struggle to survive. The book combines suspenseful action with a critique of complacency about infrastructure and warning signs of climate change, offering both stark scenes of catastrophe and humane portrayals of courage and failure.

2. 2. Darwin's Pharmacy

   Sex, Plants and the Evolution of the Noosphere

   

   A provocative, interdisciplinary study arguing that plant chemistry—especially psychoactive compounds—has played a formative role in animal and human evolution and the emergence of collective minds; drawing on botany, evolutionary biology, ethnobotany, neuroscience, and cultural history, it traces how plants’ sexual and chemical strategies coevolved with animal behavior and how human use of mind‑altering plants helped shape cognition, language, ritual, and social organization, urging a rethinking of plant agency and our ecological relationship with the vegetal world.

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