Book -- The Complete Y2K Home Preparation Guide, Ed Yourdon and Robert
A. Roskind, Prentice Hall PTR, 1999, 389 pages, $19.99
Chicken Little Rating -- @@@ Pictures of time bombs appear throughout.
A Kinder, Gentler Apocalypse -- `Many people feel accepting the reality 
of Y2K is like the five stages of dying outlined by Dr. Kubler-Ross.'
Busybody Enablement -- `What to do months before Y2K: Encourage
neighbors, friends, relatives, and strangers to prepare.'
Bonus Tip -- `Stock up on spices, too. Food need not taste bad just
because you are operating in disaster mode.'

Book -- Your Y2K Personal Protection Plan, Jim Hickman, Harper-Collins
Publishers, 1999, 128 pages, $15
Chicken Little Rating -- @@@@ `Misinterpreting 00 as 1900 will cause
the computers to stop working. This simple error threatens to collapse 
the very fabric upon which our global society rests.'
A Kinder, Gentler Apocalypse -- `Setting aside a gallon a day {of
water} for each member of your family becomes a gesture of love and an 
expression of gratitude for our abundant way of life.'
Busybody Enablement -- `Draw an infrastructure map. Such a chart of
your neighborhood and the broader community could prove helpful in an
emergency.'
Bonus Tip -- `If baby-sitting is a part of your routine, be sure to
plan ahead and make special arrangements with your regular sitters.'

Book -- Y2K: An Action Plan To Protect Yourself, Your Family, Your
Assets, and Your Community on January 1, 2000, Victor W. Porlier,
HarperCollins Publishers, 1999, 177 pages, $10.95
Chicken Little Rating -- @@@ `Quietly, invisibly, over the last forty
years, the technological world has been heading for a Titanic moment.'
A Kinder, Gentler Apocalypse -- `Learn to protect yourself in a manner
that suits your personal values. This does not necessarily mean you
have to have a gun if you are not comfortable in doing so.'
Busybody Enablement -- `Start at the top. Identify the key decision
makers, the mayor or city manager, the president of the city council,
the chief of police and so on. Your purpose is to get elected
officials and senior managers to realize that questions of public
welfare must be addressed.'
Bonus Tip -- `Perhaps, if you have family or friends who live in a more 
rural area, you might ask if they are willing to have you visit over
the 1999-2000 holidays.'

Book -- The Y2K Survival Guide: Getting to, Getting Through, and
Getting Past the Year 2000 Problem, Bruce F. Webster, Prentice Hall
PTR, 1999, 544 pages, $19.99
Chicken Little Rating -- @@@@ Cover shows atomic explosion and an
ostrich with its head in the sand.
A Kinder, Gentler Apocalypse -- `How did we come to this pass, this
crisis that was at once avoidable and yet somehow inevitable? How did
we reach the year 2000? One day at a time.'
Busybody Enablement -- `The fact that you're holding this book --
entitled the "Y2K Survival Guide" -- and are reading it says something 
about your thoughts, curiosities, and concerns about Y2K; contrast them 
with those of all the people who have no interest or desire to read
this book.'
Bonus Tip -- `If we go into a recession, unemployment will rise --
which means that you may lose your job.'

Book -- The Y2K Personal Survival Guide, Michael S. Hyatt, Regnery
Publishing, Inc.; 1999, 348 pages, $27.50.
Chicken Little Rating -- @@@@@ Predicts 3,000-point daily drops in Dow
Jones Industrial Average; `highly recommends' storing up a year's
supply of food.
A Kinder, Gentler Apocalypse -- `I am confident that regardless of how
severe Y2K problems might be, religious faith will never become
obsolete.'
Busybody Enablement -- `Consider writing to or calling the leaders of
every church in your local area. Make sure to explain the need for
community preparations for Y2K and the opportunity for Christian
evangelism. If possible, try to arrange a time to meet with the pastor 
or even elders of the church and show them a video or read selections
from this book.'
Bonus Tip -- `If the power goes out for an extended period, people will 
be starved for entertainment and most likely will trade valuable goods
in exchange for a performance. The "troubadour" just might make a
comeback.'

Book -- What Will Become of Us? Edited by Julian Gregori, The Academic
Freedom Foundation, 1998, 239 pages,  $14.95
Chicken Little Rating -- @@@@@ `There is no evidence that by January
15, 2000, electrical power would be back up, that fresh water will be
available, that banks will be open or that trains or trucks will be
able to move food.'
A Kinder, Gentler Apocalypse -- `I happen to have a number of friends
who think the Y2K problem might be one of the most fortuitous things
that could happen to America....When the schools and malls close, our
young people may discover real life.'
Busybody Enablement -- `I believe each community will see otherwise
obscure men and women rise to the occasion in heroic ways. Perhaps you 
will be one of them, organizing your community in the same ways your
colonial forefathers organized their communities.'
Bonus Tip -- `When you find yourself proud of some unusual feat your
family has accomplished together, take pictures!' Then store your film 
until photo finishing places are open again.

Book -- The Millennium Bug: How to Survive the Coming Chaos, Michael S. 
Hyatt, Broadway Books, 1998, 286 pages, $13
Chicken Little Rating -- @@@@ Y2K is going to be a billion times worse
than the worst microcomputer crash you have ever experienced -- or
could ever imagine."
A Kinder, Gentler Apocalypse -- `My greatest fear, however, is that we
will move quickly from denial to panic. If that happens, we are in
real trouble.'
Busybody Enablement -- `Get to know neighbors you've never met. Take
them a plate of cookies or just stop by and get acquainted. A solid
relationship with your neighbors is perhaps the best form of
self-defense.'
Bonus Tip -- `Find some way to live in a safe place . . . . If you
absolutely can't move, don't despair . . . . Simply "dig in" and make
the best of it.'