Alex Wade is a respectable professional man, with a responsible white-collar job. But once in a while he puts on his gloves, steps into a boxing ring and hits another man in the face while trying to avoid getting hit in return. Welcome to the world of the 'Real Fight Club', where lawyers, surveyors and City traders swap their pinstripes for mouthguards and experience the kind of adrenaline rush that only unarmed combat can bring. But what drives these largely middle-class, often affluent men to invite a punch to the head? For Alex Wade it became a way of addressing his own demons, and facing up to the fact that, despite the respectable veneer, his first three decades had been marked by a tendency to violence and self-destruction. As he describes in this gripping and moving memoir, it was only through a world of organised violence that he truly came to know himself.

Wrecking Machine : A Tale of Real Fights and White Collars

Wade, Alex

Scribner

Floor plans, drawings, specifications, and descriptions are provided for efficiently and ecologically designed family houses, studio livingspaces, hillside homes, and underground and passive solar-tempered houses

30 Energy-Efficient Houses...You Can Build

Science & Math

Ewenstein, Neal

Technology

Rodale Pr

Thirty Energy-Efficient Houses You Can Build

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Rodale Press

Guidelines for designing, and building energy-efficient houses

A Design and Construction Handbook for Energy-Saving Houses

Offers designs for inexpensive homes which take advantage of solar technology and new building techniques

Alex Wade's Guide to Affordable Houses

St Martins Pr

Offers designs for inexpensive homes which take advantage of solar technology and new building techniques

Alex Wade's Guide to affordable houses

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

This eclectic mix of surfing stories has something for everyone, from classic tales of monster waves and epic battles to stories of when life among the breakers goes wrong. There are accounts of death and disaster, as well as bravery and triumph. The bizarre and the extreme rub shoulders with perfect breaks and beautiful beaches. Be thrilled by legendary surfers, as well as learning about local heroes who never made the headlines. Each compelling tale has been chosen to stoke the fire of armchair surfers and hardcore wave-riders alike, and many are illustrated with colour photographs.

Amazing Surfing Stories: Tales of Incredible Waves & Remarkable Riders (Amazing Stories)

Sports & Outdoors

Biographies

Fernhurst Books

Alex Wade is a respectable professional man, with a responsible white-collar job. But once in a while he puts on his gloves, steps into a boxing ring and hits another man in the face while trying to avoid getting hit in return. Welcome to the world of the 'Real Fight Club', where lawyers, surveyors and City traders swap their pinstripes for mouthguards and experience the kind of adrenaline rush that only unarmed combat can bring. But what drives these largely middle-class, often affluent men to invite a punch to the head? For Alex Wade it became a way of addressing his own demons, and facing up to the fact that, despite the respectable veneer, his first three decades had been marked by a tendency to violence and self-destruction. As he describes in this gripping and moving memoir, it was only through a world of organised violence that he truly came to know himself.

Wrecking Machine: A Tale of Real Fights and White Collars

Biographies & Memoirs

Pocket_Books

Through interviews with developers, gamers, and journalists examining the phenomena of bedroom coding, arcade gaming, and format wars, mapped onto enquiry into the seminal genres of the time including driving, shooting, and maze chase, Playback: A Genealogy of 1980s British Videogames examines how 1980s Britain has become the culture of work in the 21st century and considers its meaning to contemporary society. This crucial and timely work fills a lacuna for students and researchers of sociology, media, and games studies and will be of interest to employees of the videogames and media industries.Research into videogames have never been greater, but exploration of their historic drivers is as elided as the technology is influential, giving rise to a range of questions. What were the social and economic conditions that gave rise to a billion dollar industry? What were the motivations of the early 'bedroom coders'? What are the legacies of the seminal videogames of the 1980s and how do they inform the current social, political and cultural landscape? With a focus on the characteristics of the UK videogame industry in the 1980s, Wade explores these questions from perspectives of consumption, production and leisure, outlining the construction of a habitus unique to this time.

Playback – A Genealogy of 1980s British Videogames

Computers & Technology

Games & Strategy Guides

Bloomsbury Academic

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Books by Wade, Alex

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Wade, Alex. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Wrecking Machine : A Tale of Real Fights and White Collars

30 Energy-Efficient Houses...You Can Build

Thirty Energy-Efficient Houses You Can Build

A Design and Construction Handbook for Energy-Saving Houses

A Design and Construction Handbook for Energy-Saving Houses

Alex Wade's Guide to Affordable Houses

Alex Wade's Guide to affordable houses

Amazing Surfing Stories: Tales of Incredible Waves & Remarkable Riders (Amazing Stories)

Wrecking Machine: A Tale of Real Fights and White Collars

Playback – A Genealogy of 1980s British Videogames