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Sheldon Cooper Display Maggie Mason Smith Clemson University, Mason5@Clemson.Edu Clemson University TigerPrints Presentations University Libraries 12-2014 Sheldon Cooper Display Maggie Mason Smith Clemson University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/lib_pres Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation Mason Smith, Maggie, "Sheldon Cooper Display" (2014). Presentations. 33. https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/lib_pres/33 This Display is brought to you for free and open access by the University Libraries at TigerPrints. It has been accepted for inclusion in Presentations by an authorized administrator of TigerPrints. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Sheldon Cooper Display December 2014 Sheldon Cooper Display Photograph taken by Micki Reid, Sign created by Cassie Thomas, Cooper Library Public Information Coordinator Cooper Library Weekend Supervisor Display Description A new display has been created for the library's New Books Shelf, and this month, it's centered on fictional physicist Sheldon Cooper. On display you will find the first season of The Big Bang Theory along with all things Sheldon: trains, Texas, Star Trek, Star Wars, Firefly, comics, cats, and of course, theoretical physics. The display will remain up throughout the month of December. - Posted on Clemson University Libraries’ Blog, December 3rd 2014 Works on Display • Aczel, Amir D. Present at the Creation: The Story of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider. New York: Crown, 2010. Print. QC787.P73A29 2010. • The Big Bang Theory: The Complete First Season. Pro. Chuck Lorre, Bill Prady, Lee Aronsohn. Perf. Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting. Warner Home Video, 2008. DVD. PN1992.77.B54 2008. • Bird, Kai, and Martin J. Sherwin. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. New York: A.A. Knopf, 2005. Print. QC16.O62B57 2005. • Bolling, Ben, and Matthew J. Smith, eds. It Happens at Comic-Con: Ethnographic Essays on a Pop Culture Phenomenon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2014. Print. PN6714.I8 2014. • Borneman, Walter R. Rival Rails: The Race to Build America’s Greatest Transcontinental Railroad. New York: Random House, 2010. Print. HE2751.B67 2010. • Burgess, Graham, John Nunn, and John Emms. The Mammoth Book of the World’s Greatest Chess Games. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2004. Print. GV1452.B87 2004. • Campbell, Randolph B. Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State. New York: Oxford, 2003. Print. F386.C268 2003. • Costantino, Maria. The Illustrated Flag Handbook. New York: Gramercy, 2001. Print. CR101.C667 2001. • Dardo, M. Nobel Laureates and Twentieth-Century Physics. Cambridge, Cambridge University, 2004. Print. QC7.D27 2004. Works on Display • Dyson, George. Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe. New York: Pantheon, 2012. Print. QA76.17.D97 2012. • Feynman, Richard Phillips. Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman. New York: Basic Books, 2005. Print. QC16.F49A4 2005. • Firefly: The Complete Series. Pro. Gareth Davies, Ben Edlund. Perf. Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2003. DVD. PN1992.77.F54 2003. • Goldsmith, Jerry. Star Trek, First Contact: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. GNP Crescendo Records, 1996. CD. M1527.G65S83 1996. • Goodstein, David L., and Judith R. Goodstein. Feynman’s Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sun. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996. Print/CD. QB603.M6G66 1996. • Grant, H. Roger. Railroads and the American People. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, 2012. Print. TF23.G677 2012. • Haley, James L. Passionate Nation: The Epic History of Texas. New York: Free Press, 2006. Print. F386.H2355 2006. • Hark, Ina Rae. Star Trek. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008. Print. PN1992.77.S73H37 2008. • Hawking, Stephen. The Universe in a Nutshell. New York: Bantam, 2001. Print. QC174.12.H39 2001. Works on Display • ---, ed. The Dreams that Stuff is made of: the most Astounding Papers on Quantum Physics – and how they Shook the Scientific World. Philadelphia: Running Press, 2011. Print. QC173.97.D74 2011. • Hawking, Stephen, and Leonard Mlodinow. The Grand Design. New York: Bantam, 2010. Print. QC794.6.G7H385 2010. • Indiana Jones, Bonus Material. Dir. Laurent Bouzereau. Paramount Pictures, 2003. DVD. PN1997.I495 2003. • Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. Dir. Steven Spielberg. Perf. Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman. Paramount Pictures, 2003. DVD. PN1997.I492 2003. • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Dir. Steven Spielberg. Perf. Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Amrish Puri. Paramount Pictures, 2003. DVD. PN1997.I493 2003. • Isaacson, Walter. Einstein: His Life and Universe. Recorded Books, 2007. CD. QC16.E5I762 2007. • Kaku, Michio. Einstein’s Cosmos: How Albert Einstein’s Vision Transformed our Understanding of Space and Time. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004. Print. QC173.59.S65K356 2004. • ---. Physics of the Future: How Science will Shape Human Destiny and our Daily Lives by the Year 2100. New York: Doubleday, 2011. Print. Q175.5.K257 2011. • Krauss, Lawrence Maxwell. The Physics of Star Trek. New York: Basic, 1995. Print. QB500.K65 1995. Works on Display • ---. Quantum Man: Richard Feynman’s Life in Science. New York: Atlas & Co., 2011. Print. QC16.F49K73 2011. • Lee, Alan. The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. Print. NC978.5.L44A4 2005. • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Dir. Peter Jackson. Perf. Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler. New Line Home Entertainment, 2004. DVD. PR6039.O32L622 2004. • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Dir. Peter Jackson. Perf. Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler. New Line Home Entertainment, 2006. DVD. PR6039.O32L625 2006. • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Dir. Peter Jackson. Perf. Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler. New Line Home Entertainment, 2004. DVD. PR6039.O32L622 2004. • Masson, J. Moussaieff. The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats: A Journey into the Feline Heart. New York: Ballantine, 2002. Print. SF446.5.M38 2002. • McDonald, Archie P. Texas: A Compact History. Abilene, TX: State House Press/McMurry University, 2007. Print. F386.M345 2007. • Miller, Frank. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. New York: DC Comics, 2002. Print. PN6728.B36M545 2002. • ---. Batman: Year One. Illus. David Mazzucchelli, Richmond Lewis. New York: DC Comics, 2005. Print. PN6728.B36M547 2005. Works on Display • Mlodinow, Leonard. Feynman’s Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life. New York: Warner, 2003. Print. QC16.M635A3 2003. • Morrison, Grant. All-Star Superman. Vol. 1. New York: DC Comics, 2007. Print. PN6728.S9M67 2007. • Nardi, Bonnie A. My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2010. Print. GV1469.25.W64N37 2010. • Neffe, Jürgen. Einstein: A Biography. Trans. Shelley Frisch. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2007. Print. QC16.E5N4413 2007. • Nelson-Jones, Richard. Human Relationship Skills: Coaching and Self-Coaching. New York: Routledge, 2006. Print. HM1106.N45 2006. • Okrand, Marc. The Klingon Dictionary: English/Klingon, Klingon/English. New York: Pocket, 1985. Print. PM8415.O38 1985. • The Pluto Files. Dir. Terri Randall. Perf. Neil deGrasse Tyson. WGBH Boston Video, 2010. DVD. QB701.P58 2010. • Realms of Tolkien: Images of Middle-Earth. New York: HarperPrism, 1996. Print. PR6039.O32Z813 1996. • Rinzler, J.W. The Complete Making of Indiana Jones: The Definitive Story behind all Four Films. New York: Del Rey, 2008. Print. PN1995.9.I47R56 2008. Works on Display • Salkowitz, Rob. Comic-Con and the Business of Pop Culture: What the World’s Wildest Trade Show can tell us about the Future of Entertainment. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2012. Print. PN6714.S255 2012. • Segrè, Gino. Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics. New York: Viking, 2007. Print. QC15.S427 2007. • Smolin, Lee. The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What comes Next. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. Print. QC6.S6535 2006. • Star Wars Art: Concept. New York: Abrams/Lucasfilms, 2013. Print. PN1995.9.S695S83 2013. • Star Wars, Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Dir. George Lucas. Perf. Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2000. DVD. PN1997.S68 2000. • Star Wars, Episode II: Attack of the Clones. Dir. George Lucas. Perf. Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2002. DVD. PN1997.2.S69 2002. • Star Wars, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Dir. George Lucas. Perf. Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2005. DVD. PN1997.2.R478 2005. • Star Wars, Episode IV: A New Hope. Dir. George Lucas. Perf. Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2004. DVD. PN1997.2.S83 2004. • Star Wars, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Dir. Irvin Kershner. Perf. Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2004. DVD. PN1997.2.S83 2004. Works on Display • Star Wars, Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. Dir. Richard Marquand. Perf. Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2004. DVD. PN1997.2.S83 2004. • Star Wars Trilogy, Bonus Material. Dir. Edith Becker and Kevin Burns. 20th Century Fox Entertainment, 2004. DVD. PN1997.2.S832 2004. • Stone, A. Douglas. Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian. Princeton: Princeton University, 2013. Print.
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