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Event
Geoff Manaugh in conversation with Robin Sloan
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
7:30pm
Seating Area opens at 6:30pm
Kepler's Books
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025
"A Burglar's Guide to the City"
Encompassing nearly 2,000 years of heists and tunnel jobs, break-ins and escapes, A Burglar's Guide to the City offers an unexpected blueprint to the criminal possibilities in the world all around us. You'll never see the city the same way again.
Studying architecture the way a burglar would, Geoff Manaugh takes readers through walls, down elevator shafts, into panic rooms, up to the buried vaults of banks, and out across the rooftops of an unsuspecting city.
With the help of FBI Special Agents, reformed bank robbers, private security consultants, the L.A.P.D. Air Support Division, and architects past and present, the book dissects the built environment from both sides of the law. Whether picking padlocks or climbing the walls of high-rise apartments, finding gaps in a museum's surveillance routine or discussing home invasions in ancient Rome, A Burglar's Guide to the City has the tools, the tales, and the x-ray vision you need to see architecture as nothing more than an obstacle that can be outwitted and undercut.
Full of real-life heists-both spectacular and absurd-A Burglar's Guide to the City ensures readers will never enter a bank again without imagining how to loot the vault or walk down the street without planning the perfect getaway.
Geoff Manaugh is the founder of BLDGBLOG, one of the most popular architecture sites on the Web. Geoff also wrote The BLDGBLOG Book, which Eroll Morris, director of Fast, Cheap & Out of Control and the Academy Award-winning documentary Fog of War, says provides "the reader with an excursion into a new world--part digital fantasy, part reality at the intersection of art, architecture, landscape design, and pure ideas. Like the blog, the book is personal, idiosyncratic, and, best of all, incredibly interesting."
Robin Sloan is the author of the best-selling novel Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. He splits his time between San Francisco and the internet.
This event is free but please register here.
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LocationKepler's Books (View)
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025
United States
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