Wayland Maxfield Parrish who taught in a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,  most well-known books were what?
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Wayland Maxfield Parrish Born in 1887, he is noted for writing a few books dealing with rhetoric titled "Reading Aloud", "Speaking in Public", "American Speeches", "The Teacher's Speech", and "Richard Whately's Elements of Rhetoric: Parts I and II". His most well-known are "Reading Aloud" and "American Speeches". He also wrote and contributed to various journal articles concerning speech and rhetoric. He graduated from Cornell’s prestigious linguistics program, he went on to teach at the University of Pittsburgh and then the University of Illinois.
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University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (commonly referred to as Pitt) is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1787 after the American Revolutionary War, it was founded on the edge of the American frontier as the Pittsburgh Academy. It developed and was renamed as Western University of Pennsylvania by a change to its charter in 1819. After surviving two devastating fires and various relocations within the area, the school moved to its current location in the Oakland neighborhood of the city; it was renamed as the University of Pittsburgh in 1908. For most of its history, Pitt was a private institution, until 1966 when it became part of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education.
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John E. Freund John Ernst Freund (August 6, 1921 – 2004) was a prominent author of university level textbooks on statistics. He taught for many years at Arizona State University and had previously studied at the University of London, the University of California at Los Angeles, Columbia University, and the University of Pittsburgh.
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Murray Sperber Murray Sperber taught at Indiana University, Bloomington, from 1971-2004 and
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University of South Carolina The University of South Carolina (also referred to as USC, SC, South Carolina, or simply Carolina) is a public, co-educational research university in Columbia, South Carolina, United States, with seven satellite campuses. Its campus covers over 359 acre in downtown Columbia not far from the South Carolina State House. The University is categorized by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as having "highest research activity." It has been ranked as an "up-and-coming" university by U.S. News & World Report, and its undergraduate and graduate International Business programs have ranked among the top three programs in the nation for over a decade. It also houses the largest collection of Robert Burns and Scottish literature materials outside Scotland, and the world's largest Ernest Hemingway collection.
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Thomas C. Parramore Dr. Thomas Custis Parramore (1932-2004) was a Professor Emeritus of History at Meredith College, retiring in 1992 as well as a prominent author on the subject of North Carolina history and the recipient of numerous historical association awards. He was elected as member of the North Carolinana Society recognizing his "adjudged performance" in support of North Carolina's historical, literature, and culture.
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History of the University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is an independent, state-related, doctoral/research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. For most of its history, Pitt was a private institution until it became part of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education in 1966.
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University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy The University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy is the graduate pharmacy school of the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1878, it offers Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees, as well as a residency training program. The school is one of the university's six schools of the health sciences and is ranked in the top 10 of pharmacy schools according to "U.S. News & World Report".
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Steven A. Beebe Steven A. Beebe (born September 19, 1950) is an American professor of communication. He is a noted C. S. Lewis scholar, and is recognized for discovering a fragment of an unpublished manuscript started by C.S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien about communication ("Language and Human Nature") while examining Lewis' documents in the Oxford University Bodleian Library. Beebe is currently Regents' and University Distinguished Professor at Texas State University, San Marcos. Beebe is a highly published scholar with more than 60 published articles and book chapters and he is an author of more than 12 books. He is past president of the National Communication Association and is responsible for helping develop the Russian Communication Association.
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Randolph Bourne Randolph Silliman Bourne ( ; May 30, 1886 – December 22, 1918) was a progressive writer and "leftist intellectual" born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and a graduate of Columbia University. Bourne is best known for his essays, especially his unfinished work "The State," discovered after his death.
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Wesley W. Posvar Hall Wesley W. Posvar Hall (WWPH), formerly known as Forbes Quadrangle, is a landmark building on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. At 744695 sqft it is the largest academic-use building on campus, providing administrative offices, classrooms, lecture halls, a food court, and computer labs. The hall sits on the former site of Forbes Field, and contains several artifacts, including the former stadium's home plate and one of two surviving Langley Aerodromes.
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Paul Henry Giddens Paul Henry Giddens (1903–1984) was an American professor, author, and historian of the beginnings of the oil industry in Pennsylvania and the American Mid West.
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Samuel Preston Bayard Samuel Preston Bayard (April 10, 1908 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – January 10, 1997 in State College, Pennsylvania) was an internationally known folklorist and musicologist. He received a B.A. in English from Pennsylvania State University in 1934 and later earned an M.A. from Harvard University.
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Albert Paul Weiss Albert Paul Weiss (September 15, 1879 – April 3, 1931) was a German American behavioral psychologist, theorist, scientist, and experimentalist. He was born in Steingrund, Germany. His family moved to the United States shortly after his birth and lived in St. Louis, MO. He was raised in a household of scholarly and philosophical interests although neither of his parents were highly educated. He attended University of Missouri for both undergraduate and graduate school and eventually earned his PhD there in 1916. Weiss initially planned on majoring in physics, mathematics, and philosophy until he was inspired by his professor Max Meyer to become a psychologist. After earning his PhD, he went to Ohio State University where he did research and taught up until his death. While in school, Weiss became interested in the physiological and sociological aspects of philosophy. He was interested in the role of language in human behavior and used biology, physics, and chemistry to examine human behaviors. He died of heart disease in 1931.
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Thomas Baker (college president) Thomas Stockham Baker (March 23, 1871 – April 7, 1939) was an American scholar and educator who served as the second President of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Steven Klepper Steven Irwin Klepper (January 24, 1949 - May 27, 2013) was an American economics professor, researcher and author. Klepper was the Arthur Arton Hamerschlag Professor of Economics and Social Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was recognized for his teaching and research related to the integration of traditional economic models with evolutionary theory, and finding connections between the study of entrepreneurship and mainstream economics. In 2011, he was the recipient of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research. Klepper authored more than 100 peer reviewed articles generating more than 10,000 citations. He is listed in the top five percent of most influential economist authors in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc.
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Kate Brown (professor) Kate Brown is a Professor of History at University of Maryland, Baltimore County and a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow. She is the author of "A Biography of No Place" (Harvard 2004), which won the American Historical Association’s International European History Prize for the Best Book. Brown’s most recent book is "Plutopia", a history of the world’s first two American and Soviet “plutonium cities”, (Richland, Washington and Ozersk, Russia), published by Oxford University Press in 2013. These were the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium for use in cold war atomic bombs. Brown is currently working on a book called "Being There", which explores the history of blighted communities which have been “silenced or destroyed”. Brown has received many research grants and written many articles.
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Online Books Page The Online Books Page is an index of e-text books available on the Internet. It is edited by John Mark Ockerbloom and is hosted by the library of the University of Pennsylvania. The Online Books Page lists over 2 million books and has several features, such as "A Celebration of Women Writers" and "Banned Books Online".
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Paul McKee (author) Dr. Paul McKee (October 14, 1898 – November 26, 1974) was a university professor, an author of children's books, and was regarded as "one of the most eminent scholars in his field". McKee earned a doctorate at the University of Iowa before joining the faculty at the University of Northern Colorado.
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George Frederick Barker George Frederick Barker (1835–1910) was an American physician and scientist. He graduated at the Yale Scientific School in 1858. He was successively chemical assistant in Harvard Medical School in 1858–1859 and 1860–1861, professor of chemistry and geology in Wheaton (Ill.) College. In 1864 he became the Professor of Natural Science at the Western University of Pennsylvania, now known as the University of Pittsburgh, where he undertook experiments to produce electric light by passing the current through a resisting filament which he claimed was "the first steady electric light generated in Pittsburgh, if not in the country". He subsequently went to Yale as a professor of physiological chemistry and toxicology, and later was a professor of physics at the University of Pennsylvania, in 1879–1900, when he became emeritus professor. He served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1879; president of the American Chemical Society; vice-president of the American Philosophical Society for 10 years; a member of the United States Electrical Commission; and for several years an associate editor of the "American Journal of Science". He lectured in many cities and wrote a "Text-Book of Elementary Chemistry" (1870); a "Physics" (1892); etc.
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Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes Purdon’s Pennsylvania Statutes is an unofficial consolidation of the statutes of Pennsylvania. The state's statutes are organized into 79 topic groups, ranging from "Aeronautics" to "Zoning," spread across 107 volumes. An alternate publication, "Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes Annotated," includes the text of statutes, as well as cross-references, footnotes, and commentary developed over two centuries. The annotated version is comparable to the "United States Code Annotated."
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George Pappas George Sotiros Pappas (born 1942) is a professor of philosophy at Ohio State University. Pappas specializes in epistemology, the history of early modern philosophy, philosophy of religion, and metaphysics. He is of Greek and English origin.