Focusing on a hands-on learning experience, this book equips science and engineering students with essential Python programming skills for computer-controlled experiments. It serves as a comprehensive textbook that emphasizes practical application, ensuring readers gain contemporary expertise in Python-based experimental techniques.
A comprehensive introduction to the full variety of voices, forms and themes in fiction of the postmodern era, through resources on postmodern writers and thinkers, timelines, a glossary of terms and essay and discussion questions, this book helps guide readers through the contemporary novel from the 1960s to the present. Covering key canonical texts, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postmodern Fiction is also the first introduction to explore how authors from a range of diverse communities - from women and LGBT writers and writers of colour - have engaged with postmodern forms and culture. Writers covered include: Sherman Alexie, Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, J.G. Ballard, Octavia Butler, Angela Carter, Don DeLillo, Junot Diaz, Dave Eggers, Bret Easton Ellis, Louise Erdrich, John Fowles, Jonathan Franzen, William Gibson, Alan Hollinghurst, Maxine Hong Kingston, Ursula Le Guin, David Lodge, Ian McEwan, China Mieville, David Mitchell, Alan Moore, Toni Morrison, Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Ondaatje, Richard Powers, Thomas Pynchon, Salman Rushdie, Leslie Marmon Silko, Zadie Smith, Art Spiegelman, Kurt Vonnegut, David Foster Wallace, and Jeannette Winterson.