Neil Vickers

A serious illness often changes the way others see us. Few, if any, relationships remain the same. The sick become more dependent on partners and family members, while more distant contacts become strained. The carers of the ill are also often isolated. This book focuses on our sense of self when ill and how infirmity plays out in our relationships with others. Neil Vickers and Derek Bolton offer an original perspective, drawing on neuroscience, psychology and psychoanalysis, as well as memoirs of the ill or their carers, to reveal how a sense of connectedness and group belonging can not only improve care, but make societies more resilient to illness. This is an essential book on the experience of major illness.

We gaze into the sky full of stars, captivating our senses. What lies beyond them, millions of miles away, lost in the abyss of space? Will we ever discover new worlds in new galaxies? Will we ever have the vehicle to travel millions of miles when it's still virtually impossible to put a man on Mars, one of our closet planets? We had not made leaps and bounds in space travel and so much was still undiscovered, yet a team of all-American scientists are instrumental... Working in a secret laboratory, they had found the way to unlock the universe without matter, to travel and discover the galaxies. It was all new in its inception but we were out there in space creating history as we travelled. We had unlocked the code to be able to travel at lightning speed and beyond to meet our destiny.

A fast-paced action romance thriller where life hangs on a thread. A couple are pursued with violent and relentless intentions to obtain top-secret destabilising information in pursuit of greed and world domination.

An exciting powerful love story with a twist of fate and the characters are caught up in a violent thriller taking them into surreal situations with life changing consequences.

What did Coleridge know about medicine and how did it influence the development of his critical thought? Neil Vickers sets out to answer this question in this radical reinterpretation of Coleridge's career between 1795 and 1806. Coleridge and the Doctors changes the way we look at Coleridge's intellectual development and reveals the richness of his involvement in the eighteenth-century tradition of 'philosophical medicine' and its determining influence on his critical and philosophic stance. The book also contains a revisionary analysis of Coleridge's dealings with opiates and offers a comprehensive account of British early Romantic medicine.