At the heart of Geoff Manaugh's A Burglar's Guide to the City is an
unexpected and thrilling insight: the city as seen through the eyes
of robbers. From experts on both sides of the law, readers learn to
understand the city as an arena of possible tunnels and picked
locks and architecture itself as an obstacle to be outwitted and
second-guessed. From how to pick locks (and the tools required) to
how to case a bank on the edge of town, readers will learn to
detect the vulnerabilities, blind spots, and unseen openings that
surround us all the time. This simultaneously allows us to view the
city from specific buildings and individual rooms to whole
neighbourhoods through the privileged eyes of FBI investigating
agents and security consultants, people dedicated both to solving
and to preempting these attempts at devious entry. Full of absurd
and marvelous stories of heists and capers, A Burglar's Guide to
the City offers a kind of criminal X-ray of our built environment.
Never again will readers enter a bank without imagining the vault
geometry, or visit a museum without plotting ways to bring their
favourite painting home with them.
General
Imprint: |
Farrar Straus Giroux
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
April 2016 |
First published: |
August 2015 |
Authors: |
Geoff Manaugh
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Dimensions: |
190 x 126 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
292 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-374-11726-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Architecture >
General
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LSN: |
0-374-11726-8 |
Barcode: |
9780374117269 |
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