Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

5 best books like Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall (Tim Mohr): Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster, Charlesgate Confidential, Year of the Monkey, Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
AuthorAdam Higginbotham
ISBN1501134612
The definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research.

April 25, 1986, in Chernobyl, was a turning point in world history. The disaster not only changed the world’s perception of nuclear power and the...
Charlesgate Confidential
AuthorScott Von Doviak
An ingenious debut-novel unraveling the heist of the century, in 1946, 1986 and present-day Boston

A group of criminals in 1946 pull off the heist of the century, stealing a dozen priceless works of art from a Boston museum. But while the thieves get caught, the art is never found. Forty years...
Year of the Monkey
AuthorPatti Smith
ISBN0525657681
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.

Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti...
Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction
AuthorAlec Nevala-Lee
ISBN0062571966
“[Astounding] is a major work of popular culture scholarship that science fiction fans will devour.” — Publishers Weekly

"Alec Nevala-Lee has brilliantly recreated the era. . . . A remarkable work of literary history." — Robert Silverberg

"Science fiction has...
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
AuthorPeter Pomerantsev
ISBN1541762118
When information is a weapon, every opinion is an act of war.

We live in a world of influence operations run amok, where dark ads, psyops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, and Trump seek to shape our very reality. In this surreal atmosphere created to disorient us and undermine our...
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