Most Popular Books by Jeff Smith

The ongoing revolution in electronic information technology raises critical questions about our right to privacy. As more personal information is gathered and stored at breathtaking speed, corporate America is confronted with the ethical and practical issues of how to handle the information in its databases: how should it be safeguarded and who should have access to it? In Managing Privacy, Jeff Smith examines the policies of corporations such as insurance companies, banks, and credit card firms that regularly process medical, financial, and consumer data. According to Smith, many companies lack comprehensive policies regulating the access to and distribution of personal data, and where stated policies do exist, actual practices often conflict. Few organizations are willing to become leaders in the development of such policies, instead formulating privacy guidelines only after being pressured by consumers, the media, or legislators. Smith argues that as information technology advances, both corporations and society as a whole must modify their approaches to privacy protection, and he presents specific suggestions for developing such policies. Originally published in 1994. A UNC Press Enduring Edition — UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

The adventures and misadventures of the three Bone cousins, Fone, Smiley, and Phoney.

Lucius, Smiley and Phoney are attacked by rat creatures in the forest, barely making it to Lucius'' tavern. At the farm, Fone Bone and Thorn are having strange dreams and Gran''ma Ben suddenly begins revealing long-kept secrets and new dangers.

The adventure starts when cousins Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone are run out of Boneville and later get separated and lost in the wilderness, meeting monsters and making friends as they attempt to return home.

Fone Bone and his cousins plan to return home after visiting the village of Barrelhaven with Thorn and Gran''ma Ben. But Phoney risks everything on one last get-rich-quick scheme at the town''s annual Great Cow Race.

The BONE adventures tell the story of a young bone boy, Fone Bone, and his two cousins, Phoney Bone and Smiley Bone, who are banned from their homeland of Boneville. When the cousins find themselves mysteriously trapped in a wonderful but often terrifying land filled with secrets and danger - and special new friendships - they are soon caught up in adventures beyond their wildest dreams. In OUT FROM BONEVILLE, the three Bone cousins are separated and lost in a vast uncharted desert. One by one, they find their way into a deep, forested valley where they come face to face with...

"Now Large Print readers can savor for themselves the frigal feasts and practical philosophy that Jeff Smith espouses on his popular Public Televison cooking series. Dubbed the Frugal Gourmet, he believes that frugal cooking is an attitude toward food and that frugal doesn''t neccessarily mean sparing. It can also mean getting the most for your money by buying the best meats, grains, fruits, and vegetables and putting them to the best possible use. And gourmet cooking doesn''t require complicated recipes with dozens of exotic ingredients. In this large print edition of his best-selling book, Jeff Smith will show you that with a little know-how around the kitchen, you can cook sumptuous dishes without wasting your time or your money. Now you can duplicate in your own home all the techniques and recipes the Frugal Gourmet demonstrates on his programs. You will learn how to devise a homemade smoker, barbecue shrimp New Orleans-style, prepare whole meal salads, even make fabulous bread and yogurt from scratch. With his uncomplicated techniques and healthful recipes, the Frugal Gourmet proves that preparation of good food can be simple and enjoyable, leaving you more time to enjoy the meal with friends and family,"--

A politician''s humorous memoir of his year in federal prison, with a viable prescription for a more productive, cost-effective corrections system.

With techniques for achieving a flawless portrait, this manual shows how to create stunning, professional images in any setting. Tips on how to delicately discuss and evaluate a subject’s appearance and his or her specific concerns combine with examples on how subtle changes in lighting and posing can flatter subjects—by slimming the waist and hips, enhancing the bust, narrowing the nose, reducing a double chin, and concealing baldness—helping portrait photographers sensitively downplay perceived flaws. Also illustrating how the latest in digital imaging technology can fix problems, this up-to-date resource shows how to digitally eliminate acne, whiten teeth, remove braces, and fix unnoticed clothing problems. Techniques for processing RAW files and for optimizing JPEG files for quick, but consistent, shooting are also included. With hundreds of new images, before-and-after sequences, and informative text, this is the ultimate reference for creating beautiful, flattering portraits.

A special rerelease of the best-selling graphic novel complements the debut adventure of Fone Bone, Phoney Bone and Smiley Bone with mini-comics and artwork by 16 award-winning artists.

In The Presidents We Imagine, Jeff Smith examines the presidency’s ever-changing place in the American imagination. Ranging across different media and analyzing works of many kinds, some familiar and some never before studied, he explores the evolution of presidential fictions, their central themes, the impact on them of new and emerging media, and their largely unexamined role in the nation’s real politics.

Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist examines the long-term reception of several key American films released during the postwar period, focusing on the two main critical lenses used in the interpretation of these films: propaganda and allegory. Produced in response to the hearings held by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) that resulted in the Hollywood blacklist, these filmsÕ ideological message and rhetorical effectiveness was often muddled by the inherent difficulties in dramatizing villains defined by their thoughts and belief systems rather than their actions. Whereas anti-Communist propaganda films offered explicit political exhortation, allegory was the preferred vehicle for veiled or hidden political comment in many police procedurals, historical films, Westerns, and science fiction films. Jeff Smith examines the way that particular heuristics, such as the mental availability of exemplars and the effects of framing, have encouraged critics to match filmic elements to contemporaneous historical events, persons, and policies. In charting the development of these particular readings, Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist features case studies of many canonical Cold War titles, including The Red Menace, On the Waterfront, The Robe, High Noon, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Things seem quite well in the valley, Fone Bone is still living with Thom and Gran''ma Ben, while his cousins Phoney and Smiley are working in the inn at Barrelhaven. But peace never lasts for long when the bone cousins are around. Soon Phoney Bone is up to his old con tricks again, trying to throw the bets on the annual cow race.