On New Year's Eve 1999, millions of computers are likely to go haywire - affecting missile defence systems, stock market trading, even lifts. The authors highlight the blunders that allowed the 'millennium bug' to remain hidden for so long.

This timely book warns of the catastrophes that could occur if we don't defuse the millennium bomb.

This fast-moving political thriller of conspiracy and betrayal set in a historical context takes the reader back from the late 1990s to the political upheavals in the 1930s that led to the Second World War and the momentous 1945 Manhattan Project at Los Alamos in the US.

This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Examines terrorists¿ involvement in a variety of crimes ranging from motor vehicle violations, immigration fraud, and mfg. illegal firearms to counterfeiting, armed bank robbery, and smuggling weapons of mass destruction. There are 3 parts: (1) Compares the criminality of internat. jihad groups with domestic right-wing groups. (2) Six case studies of crimes includes trial transcripts, official reports, previous scholarship, and interviews with law enforce. officials and former terrorists are used to explore skills that made crimes possible; or events and lack of skill that the prevented crimes. Includes brief bio. of the terrorists along with descriptions of their org., strategies, and plots. (3) Analysis of the themes in closing arguments of the transcripts in Part 2. Illus.

The reader is squarely confronted with the scope of the Y2K problem, involveing the collapse of such essential services as telecommunications and banking.

Kevin is a senior programmer analyst nearing retirement age after many years of excellent performance. His boss, knowing employee pensions are based on their final average salary, shortchanges Kevin with a one-dollar raise for his final year, telling him it's because the company considers older employees "obsolete" and not worth the money they're paid. Furious at such blatant age discrimination, Kevin vows revenge. It's December 1998, so Kevin devises a scheme to re-introduce the millennium bug into programs that were already fixed by Y2K consultants, creating a "millennium bomb" that when the year 2000 rolls around, will destroy the company that discriminated against him.

"The most cosmically elegiac writer in literature . . . no one reading Ballard could doubt the tidal gravity of his intellect." —Jonathan Lethem, New York Times Book Review Violent rebellion comes to London’s middle classes in this “fascinating” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel from the same author of Crash and Empire of the Sun. Never more timely, Millennium People “seeks to illuminate our hearts of darkness while undermining our assumptions about what literature is meant to do” (Los Angeles Times).