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Australia has a proud history of being an international leader in electoral administration, and Australian electoral commissions continue to have a professional, non-partisan approach to the management of elections. Yet their independence is constrained by the electoral laws they need to administer, and parliamentary committees charged with the oversight of the conduct of elections do so with a clear partisan bias. Elections are all about winners, but who decides who the winners will be? Voters definitely have a big say, but it is the electoral system that determines how votes translate into seats in parliament. Any changes to the electoral system require the support of those in power, and it is important to question who benefits from electoral reforms.

In A Cold War in the Soviet Bloc, Sheldon Anderson uses recently declassified documents from Polish and East German communist party and foreign ministry archives to examine the interplay of national interests with the exigencies of communist party relations within the Soviet bloc during the Cold War. Anderson explores how Polish-East German relations were strained over the permanence of the Oder-Neisse border, the correct road to socialism, German repatriation from Poland, and trade policy; he provides an inside account of the heated debates that seriously divided the Polish and East German communists.Anderson delves into how and why the rift culminated in the return of the anti-Stalinist Wladyslaw Gomulka in October 1956, and he delineates how the Polish-East German conflict undermined the unity of the Soviet bloc on its most strategic flank. In doing so, he reveals the persistence of nationalism and ethnic prejudice in the former communist countries. In this timely text, Anderson pinpoints how nationalism has reemerged as a powerful political force following the end of the Cold War. With A Cold War in the Soviet Bloc, Anderson markedly fills the gap in the existing scholarship on postwar relations between the countries of East Europe.

Two of the brightest singing talents to have emerged from Italy in recent years, Giulia Semenzato and Raffaele Pe, join forces for Sospiri d’amore, a dazzling celebration of operatic arias and duets by that Baroque master of amorous emotions, Francesco Cavalli. Soprano and countertenor are supported by a modern master of Italian Baroque style in Claudio Cavina, who directs La Venexiana (Cavina has also led the Glossa recording of Cavalli’s 1656 opera Artemisia).

Pe Werner machte es schon 2013 vor. Sie hat sich auf eines der größten Risiken im Popgeschäft eingelassen und mit "Ne Prise Zimt" ihr erstes Weihnachtsalbum aufgenommen, das auf unterhaltsame wie poetische Art die vierte Jahreszeit feiert, sie aber deshalb noch lange nicht zur Idylle verklärt. Bei der Kooperation mit der HR-Bigband habe der eigentliche Reiz darin bestanden, nicht die Klischees zu bedienen, sondern neue Songs zum Thema zu schreiben.

This book on the politics of electoral reform in Central Europe since 1989 explains by whom, why, and how the electoral rules were changed in Central Europe in the post-Communist period. Examining the contextual factors affecting, underlying, and/or initiating these changes, the book identifies main actors, their motivations, and other circumstances surrounding the electoral reform processes. It further explores their political consequences, particularly on proportionality and personalization.

Windows PE SP2 (Preinstallation Environment)
The Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) makes IT professionals more productive by providing powerful preparation and installation tools for Microsoft Windows XP Professional and Microsoft Windows Server 2003. With Windows PE, IT staff can build custom solutions that speed deployment through automation, so they spend less time and effort keeping desktops updated.

Windows PE offers many features and advantages:
• Be more prepared: IT professionals can more easily prepare to deploy and support Windows desktops and servers, while making recovery efforts less time-consuming and more productive.
• Save time and focus on critical tasks: Engineers have the ability to inject mass-storage, networking, audio, video, and other types of device drivers directly into an existing copy of Windows PE, so IT professionals no longer need to customize MS-DOS-bootable disks.
• Streamline processes: IT professionals can format disks with NTFS without using third-party utilities. Also, the file-system utilities that Windows PE provides are scriptable, so your administrators can completely automate the hard disk preparation process.
• Maintain easy network access: Windows PE provides network access comparable to Windows XP. In fact, Windows PE provides the same network drivers that come with Windows XP, allowing your IT professionals to access the network quickly and easily.
• Customize easily: Because Windows PE is based on Windows XP Professional and Windows Server 2003, your IT professionals are already familiar with the techniques and tools used to customize Windows PE. They can customize it for a variety of scenarios including deployment, test and diagnostic, recovery, and other support-related tasks.

~206MB - iso file inside zip
http://oem.microsoft.com/downloads/worldwide/OPK_XPSP2/xpsp2_2180_usa_x86fre_opk.zip