1989, il Muro di Berlino sta per cadere e nella DDR al tramonto quattro bambini discutono un piano per rubare una pistola e scatenare una guerra contro la Germania Ovest. La guerra non scoppia, ma nel giro di poco la Germania Est cessa di esistere lasciando smarriti i suoi abitanti. Un romanzo di formazione al contrario, che si legge trattenendo il fiato mentre la narrazione si fa sempre più inquietante e dura e il protagonista, da giovane ingenuo e timido, si vede circondato da amici che collezionano cimeli del Terzo Reich, scatenano risse e si rasano i capelli a zero coltivando idee antisemite. Come è stato possibile che i pionieri del socialismo crescessero e si trasformassero in neonazisti e picchiatori? Un romanzo poetico, crudo e politico, descrizione magistrale dei giovani nati in DDR e cresciuti durante gli anni Novanta con il mito dell'Occidente e le svastiche tatuate sul petto.

The retail sector is an essential part of modern economy and a strong retail sector is a key element of the vitality and competitiveness of cities, towns and villages throughout the country and indeed the country as a whole. Shopping centers play a key role in the development of retail sector. It is very important that the design process provides a clear framework for the continued development of shopping centres.

The main goal of this book is to give an exclusive overview of shopping center design through various types of malls, showing readers planning and design examples, spatial organisations and arrangements, as well as design trends. A collection of fascinating projects and technical information in this book, as well as a broad overview of additional features which a modern shopping center of today should provide, make this book unique in its column.

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 199.

Dynamics of the Earth's Radiation Belts and Inner Magnetosphere draws together current knowledge of the radiation belts prior to the launch of Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RPSP) and other imminent space missions, making this volume timely and unique. The volume will serve as a useful benchmark at this exciting and pivotal period in radiation belt research in advance of the new discoveries that the RPSP mission will surely bring. Highlights include the following: a review of the current state of the art of radiation belt science; a complete and up-to-date account of the wave-particle interactions that control the dynamical acceleration and loss processes of particles in the Earth's radiation belts and inner magnetosphere; a discussion emphasizing the importance of the cross-energy coupling of the particle populations of the radiation belts, ring current, and plasmasphere in controlling the dynamics of the inner magnetosphere; an outline of the design and operation of future satellite missions whose objectives are to discover the dominant physical processes that control the dynamics of the Earth's radiation belts and to advance our level of understanding of radiation belt dynamics ideally to the point of predictability; and an examination of the current state of knowledge of Earth's radiation belts from past and current spacecraft missions to the inner magnetosphere. Dynamics of the Earth's Radiation Belts and Inner Magnetosphere will be a useful reference work for the specialist researcher, the student, and the general reader. In addition, the volume could be used as a supplementary text in any graduate-level course in space physics in which radiation belt physics is featured.