1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778645203321

Titolo

People and pixels [[electronic resource] ] : linking remote sensing and social science / / Diana Liverman ... [et al.], editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1998

ISBN

0-309-17436-8

1-280-21026-5

9786610210268

0-309-59304-2

0-585-02788-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LivermanDiana M

Disciplina

300/.7/2

Soggetti

Land use - Remote sensing

Social sciences - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910969943303321

Autore

Malanga Steven

Titolo

Shakedown : the continuing conspiracy against the American taxpayer / / Steven Malanga

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : Ivan R. Dee, c2010

ISBN

979-82-16-36201-2

1-283-05695-X

9786613056955

1-56663-966-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 p.)

Disciplina

336.73

Soggetti

Government spending policy - United States

Taxation - United States

Government employee unions - United States

Community activists - United States

United States Social policy 1993-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The conspiracy against the taxpayers -- The bill is coming due -- California's road to serfdom -- The mob that whacked New Jersey -- We don't need another war on poverty -- America's worst urban program -- The movement to undermine welfare reforms -- The religious left, reborn -- The advocates and Washington's housing disorders -- A culture of entitlement everywhere.

Sommario/riassunto

As their infatuation with President Obama fades, millions of Americans anxiously ask, Is this the change we were waiting for? The current administration represents change, for sure, Steven Malanga argues - a momentous transformation of the fundamental structure of American politics. A self-interested coalition of public-sector unions and government-financed community activists (like the young Barack Obama) has become our era's characteristic political machine.  In Shakedown, Mr. Malanga shows how this machine's single-minded goal is always bigger government and more public spending. The bill,