New Releases by Aaron Johnston

New York Times bestselling authors Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to the prequels to Ender''s Game following The Swarm with The Hive, book two in the Second Formic War. Card and Johnston continue the fast-paced hard science fiction history of the Formic Wars—the alien invasions of Earth’s Solar System that ultimately led to Ender Wiggin’s total victory in Ender''s Game. A coalition of Earth’s nations barely fought off the Formics’ first scout ship. Now it’s clear that there’s a mother-ship out on edge of the system, and the aliens are prepared to take Earth by force. Can Earth’s warring nations and corporations put aside their differences and mount an effective defense? Ender''s Game is one of the most popular and bestselling science fiction novels of all time. The Formic War series (The First Formic War and The Second Formic War) are the prequels to Ender’s story. THE ENDER UNIVERSE Ender series Ender’s Game / Speaker for the Dead / Xenocide / Children of the Mind / Ender in Exile / Children of the Fleet Ender’s Shadow series Ender’s Shadow / Shadow of the Hegemon / Shadow Puppets / Shadow of the Giant / Shadows in Flight The First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston) Earth Unaware / Earth Afire / Earth Awakens The Second Formic War (with Aaron Johnston) The Swarm / The Hive Ender novellas A War of Gifts / First Meetings At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to their Ender''s Game prequel series with this first volume of an all-new trilogy about the Second Formic War in The Swarm. The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese army. China has been devastated by the Formic''s initial efforts to eradicate Earth life forms and prepare the ground for their own settlement. The Scouring of China struck fear into the other nations of the planet; that fear blossomed into drastic action when scientists determined that the single ship that wreaked such damage was merely a scout ship. There is a mothership out beyond the Solar System''s Kuiper Belt, and it''s heading into the system, unstoppable by any weapons that Earth can muster. Earth has been reorganized for defense. There is now a Hegemon, a planetary official responsible for keeping all the formerly warring nations in line. There''s a Polemarch, responsible for organizing all the military forces of the planet into the new International Fleet. But there is an enemy within, an enemy as old as human warfare: ambition and politics. Greed and self-interest. Will Bingwen, Mazer Rackam, Victor Delgado and Lem Juke be able to divert those very human enemies in time to create a weapon that can effectively defend humanity in the inexorable Second Formic War? THE ENDER UNIVERSE Ender series Ender’s Game / Speaker for the Dead / Xenocide / Children of the Mind / Ender in Exile / Children of the Fleet Ender’s Shadow series Ender’s Shadow / Shadow of the Hegemon / Shadow Puppets / Shadow of the Giant / Shadows in Flight The First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston) Earth Unaware / Earth Afire / Earth Awakens The Second Formic War (with Aaron Johnston) The Swarm / The Hive Ender novellas A War of Gifts / First Meetings At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

La tierra desprevenida es el primer volumen de la trilogía «Primera Guerra Fórmica», precula de la «Saga Ender» de Orson Scott Card. Antes de que Ender Wiggin naciera, mucho antes de que la Escuela de Batalla fuera creada, los alienígenas llevaron la guerra a la galaxia... La nave minera Cavadora se encuentra alejada de la Tierra, en las profundidades del Cinturón de Kuiper. Otras naves mineras, y las familias que viven en ellas, están tan cerca como lejos de ella. Los sistemas de la nave minera son viejos y empiezan a fallar, y la familia se está volviendo demasiado grande para el tamaño de la nave. Tantos son los problemas cotidianos que, cuando divisan un enorme objeto que se mueve a una fracción similar a la velocidad de la luz, no le dan ninguna importancia. Sin embargo, están del todo equivocados, ya que la presencia de este extraño ente será decisiva para el futuro de la humanidad durante los próximos millones de años. La Primera Guerra Fórmica está a punto de estallar.

La tierra en llamas es el segundo volumen de la trilogía «Primera Guerra Fórmica», precuela de la «Saga Ender» de Orson Scott Card. Cien años antes de que Ender naciera, una raza extraterrestre llegó a la Tierra armada con fuego y muerte... Después del ataque que sufre la nave minera Cavadora, Victor Delgado escapa y se une al Oficial del Estado Imala para alertar a los científicos de la Tierra de la peligrosidad de los hostiles insectos llamados fórmicos. Mientras los diplomáticos buscan una solución pacífica, Lem Jukes, hijo del magnate Ukko Jukes, planea un ataque que supone un desafío en toda regla a su padre. Con este telón de fondo, y una horda invasora planeando a través de la llanura china, sobre campos devastados, será el sublime y heroico Mazer Rackham, un oficial de operaciones maorí, quien luche para convertir a su tropa en una fuerza capaz de preservar la Tierra en la que será su primera guerra interestelar.

Ambientada 100 anos antes de los sucesos acontecidos en el quinteto de la Saga de Ender, aqui se describe el inicio de la guerra Formica. Una brutal invasion coge a la tierra por sorpresa. Los formicos se establecen y afianzan en China, y proceden con la destruccion del planeta. Varias personas, incluidas personal militar y civil, luchas por la supervivencia y esfuerzos para luchar contra la horda invasora.

Traces the events of the First Formic War a century before the events of Ender''s Game, following the unsuccessful attempt of Victor Delgado to warn skeptical Earth governments of an imminent alien invasion and the efforts of Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police to meet unprecedented threats.

Before Ender Wiggin was born, before the Battle School was built, the aliens brought war to Earth.

Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston''s taut thriller Invasive Procedures takes readers a few years into the future, and shows the promise and danger of new genetic medicine techniques. George Galen is a brilliant scientist, a pioneer in gene therapy. But Galen is dangerously insane – he has created a method to alter human DNA, not just to heal diseases, but to "improve" people – make them stronger, make them able to heal more quickly, and make them compliant to his will. Frank Hartman is also a brilliant virologist, working for the government''s ultra-secret bio-hazard agency. He has discovered how to neutralize Galen''s DNA-changing virus, making him the one man who stands in the way of Galen''s plan to "improve" the entire human race. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Los curadores, con sus musculosos y fuertes cuerpos escondidos tras negras capas, se mueven sigilosamente por las calles de la ciudad recogiendo indigentes y, sobre todo, curando enfermedades y proporcionando esperanza a los desahuciados. Usan un virus a

This thesis constitutes a case study of a single Grammar School in the State of New South Wales, Australia during the year 2008. This particular study takes on a qualitative approach to research, adopting a case study methodology taking data from lesson observations, student and staff interviews and individual student testing. The case study seeks to investigate the long term effect (positive, neutral or negative) that individual laptop computer use has on the spelling and grammar skills of students in a Year 6 classroom. The results from the data gathered have identified several areas of concern regarding the effective development and maintenance of students'' spelling and grammar skills in paperless computer-based classroom. Consequently, a list of recommendations has been formulated to ensure the effective development and maintenance of students'' spelling and grammar skills in a paperless computer-based classroom.