Book description
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…
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1 author picked A Burglar's Guide to the City as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This unusual book deserves to be included in some list or another; to that end, I have included it here.
It views cities, from their urban high rises to McDonald’s roadside eateries, from the standpoint of a burglar (with an architect’s eye), examining how to break in, steal, and make a clean getaway. Although I’ve never broken into a home (other than my own after locking myself out), I found the book eye-opening.
Don’t put it down until you get to the description of the movie Die Hard, which rethinks the skyscraper as one of the key characters of…
From John's list on intriguing perspectives on who we are and how we live.
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