Bøger af Robert Culp

Not content with having been lucky or in the right place at the right time, Sonia MacTaggert leaves the comfort of Uncle Angus' house to prove to herself that she truly has what it takes to be a starship engineer. She not only keeps the engines of Star Chaser running, she takes on more tasks. Her plan is simple: Retire on Atlas and live out her years in luxury. As is often the case, the universe has other plans.

I simply must have been meant for more than this. So begins the story of Sonia MacTaggert. An engineer by education with dreams of actually earning a living as one, she is stuck in a dead-end maintenance job servicing the engines of starships that put into port at Tammuz. When she finally lands an engineering position on the starship Night Searcher, she finds herself thrust into the unfamiliar world of interstellar exploration on a ship with a classified mission. Has her quest for a new life and career gotten Sonia more than she bargained for? The voyage of the Night Searcher tests not only the technical savvy of the fledgling engineer, but her character and leadership, as she's faced with challenges she could never have seen coming.

On her first interstellar voyage, Engineer's Apprentice Sonia MacTaggert eventually became Captain Sonia MacTaggert. On her second voyage she was perceived as a threat by her team leader so was put in charge of a series of projects all designed to end in failure. She succeeded anyway. Leaving the comfort of "civilization" for the third time Sonia does so in command of a new ship. Many old friends continue to travel with her. She makes new ones. Along the trip she makes several discoveries, some professional, more than a few personal. What is the machine she appropriated from the pirate, "Grinning Jack" Grangiere? Why does he want it back? She nonetheless must continue to evade and absorb his increasing attempts to recapture it. But she never dreamed of the lengths to which he would go.

Robert Culp explores the world of commercial publishing to offer a new perspective on modern China's cultural transformations. Culp examines China's largest and most influential publishing companies during the late Qing and Republican periods and into the early years of the People's Republic.

This book reconstructs civic education and citizenship training in secondary schools in the lower Yangzi region during the Republican era. It analyzes how students used the tools of civic education to make themselves into young citizens, and explores the complex social and political effects of educated youths' civic action.