PHIL METZGER ’53
The Art of Perspective: The Ultimate Guide for Artists in Every Medium
North Light Books
In this comprehensive guide, Phil Metzger demystifies perspective by presenting it as a matter of mimicking the way we see — like the way a distant mountain appears blue, or a road seems to narrow in the distance. The Art of Perspective offers simple but powerful techniques for achieving a convincing illusion of depth and distance, whether it’s a few inches in a still life or miles in a landscape. Metzger has written eight art-related books and teaches watercolor painting in Rockville, Md.
MICHAEL WESCOTT LODER ’67
The Nikon Camera in America, 1946–1953
McFarland & Co.
This work examines the roles that American businesses and photojournalists played in the early marketing of the Japanese–built Nikon camera between 1946 and 1951. Particular attention is paid to the San Francisco–based Overseas Finance and Trading Company, which was the major U.S. importer of Nikon products between 1949 and 1953. The work also details the roles of Overseas Finance leaders Hans Liholm and Adolph Gasser in providing marketing and technical guidance to Nikon in the company’s formative years. Michael Wescott Loder is the campus librarian at Ciletti Memorial Library, Schuylkill Campus, Pennsylvania State University. He lives in nearby Orwigsburg.
HARRY WILLIS ’67
Inner Mountain
Lulu
Gil Danton, a rugged individualist and outdoorsman, has been scarred by his father’s recent and tragic death. When he goes for a day hike on the Sheltowee Trace trail, he meets Rex Applewhite, college ballplayer and reluctant conformist. Their experiences together immerse the reader in the natural beauty and danger of the Appalachian and Rockies landscapes. There is humor, introspection, conflict, and ultimately, the moment when each man must make a decision that will determine survival.
ALAN ZIEGLER ’69
The Writing Workshop Note Book
Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press
This book is devoted to making, remaking, and remarking on writing. Animated by a concern for how we relate to our own and others' writing and by a desire to have a felicitous effect on the reader's experience, Alan Ziegler has created a book to aid writing workshops or a solitary writer. Ziegler received the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching at Columbia University, where he is Professor of Writing. From 2001 to 2006, he served as Chair of the School of the Arts Writing Division and, from 1988-2001, he served as Director of Undergraduate Creative Writing.
RAYMOND ANGELO BELLIOTTI ’70
Watching Baseball, Seeing Philosophy:
The Great Thinkers at Play on the Diamond
McFarland Publishers
In a book that combines baseball and philosophy, Ray Belliotti points to the uncanny connections between nine baseball greats and the great thinkers of the West. Examples include: The intensity and single-mindedness of Ted Williams breathes life into Camus’ Sisyphus; Billy Martin’s maniacal competitiveness recalls Niccolo Machiavelli’s take on politics, which he characterized as a zero-sum game; the homespun philosophy of Satchel Paige echoes the wisdom of Marcus Aurelius; and the many facets of Joe DiMaggio’s personality cry out for the resolution that Nietzsche’s doctrine of perspectivism might have given. Belliotti is a distinguished professor and chair of philosophy at the State University of New York at Fredonia. He is also the author of seven other books.
MARK BURTON ’87
Pricing with Confidence
Wiley Publishers
With ten simple rules, this book demonstrates how managers can deliver healthy profit margins and revenue growth while avoiding excessive discounts. It’s a matter of linking the prices to unique and customized offerings for various types of buyer. The wrong pricing is capable of destroying a company's reputation and revenue. The right pricing immunizes a company against market downturns, cutthroat competitors, and bargain-obsessed customers. Drawing from years of real-world experience as leading pricing strategists, Mark Burton and Reed K. Holden offer the first practical roadmap that shows companies, step-by-step, how to implement smart, appropriate, value-based pricing.
KENNETH J. OROSZ ’90
Religious Conflict and the Evolution of Language Policy in German and French
Cameroon, 1885-1939
Peter Lang – New York
This comparative study examines how church-state conflicts shaped the evolution of German and French language policy in Cameroon from the dawn of the colonial era to the onset of World War II. In Cameroon these conflicts created a curious inversion in which Protestant, rather than Catholic, missions were portrayed as obstructionist and unpatriotic for using indigenous languages in educational and evangelical work. The situation suddenly reversed itself when, during the mid-1920s, Catholics rethought their commitment to spreading French in the colonies. The result was repeated clashes between colonial authorities and mission personnel up until the outbreak of war in 1939. Kenneth J. Orosz holds a doctorate in modern European history from Binghamton University.