Ian Butler: 9 books

In English for Life Grade 10 you will be covering a range of fascinating, thought-provoking and often humorous texts with integrated activities through which you will also improve your knowledge of some of your other subjects. The texts form the basis for extending your understanding and application...

This key text covers the knowledge and skills that social workers need to get into practice with children and families. The book covers core components of child and family work such as building effective relationships, assessment, child protection practice and working with the law. Clear and...

In English for Life Grade 11 you will be covering a range of fascinating, thought-provoking and often humorous texts with integrated activities through which you will also improve your knowledge of some of your other subjects. The texts form the basis for extending your understanding and application...

Drawing on a three-year multidisciplinary study of children of divorced parents, the authors, leading academics in their fields, present a much-needed guide to understanding the experience of children who are experiencing parental separation. This book provides an in-depth account of how children...

Surveys reveal that domestic abuse is more commonplace among teenagers and young adults than older populations, yet surprisingly little is written about young men’s involvement in it. Reporting on a three-year study based in the UK, this book explores young men’s involvement in domestic abuse,...

Paul Castle loves his son Jack and hates being a 'Burger Bar Dad'. Seeing his son only on Wednesdays and Saturdays pulls him apart. His ex-wife is a thrusting ambitious banker and he is a middling, not very ambitious Birmingham journalist with hopes of being a playwright. The divorce gave her the house,...

PORTALS: What mysteries…or horrors…await you on the other side? The lure of an open doorway is hard to resist. What lies beyond? Where will it take you—and how will you be transformed? Will it lead to paradise…or a living hell? You’ll never know, unless you have the courage to take...

An apparently contradictory yet radically urgent collection of texts tracing the genealogy of a controversial current in contemporary philosophy. Accelerationism is the name of a contemporary political heresy: the insistence that the only radical political response to capitalism is not to protest,...

Taps interest in environmental issues following wide spread disappointment stemming from the recent string of Global Climate Change summits Written in accessible language by experts on the science and social content of the topic Interest in the subject has been spurred by Al Gore's An...