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Presents Edward Bellamy's novel about a Boston aristocrat who falls asleep in 1887 and awakes in the year 2000, finding himself in a socialist utopia; and includes an introduction, explanatory notes, a bibliography, and a Bellamy chronology.

A series of essays in which the author shares his interest and insights into the coming millenium, focusing on questions of calendrics, astronomy, and history.

Discusses the year 2000 as a milestone marking two thousand years of human achievement, as a threshold leading into a new millennium, and as an important anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ.

Presents Edward Bellamy's utopian novel, originally published in 1888, which follows the adventures of Julian West after he falls asleep in 1887 and awakens to find Boston in the year 2000 a near-perfect society, and includes an introduction, a chronology of Bellamy's life, and other references.

Presents more than twenty essays and articles on topics related to the year 1000 and the second millennium, the year 2000 and the third millennium, the planet's future, the economic outlook, and the society of the future.

A young Boston gentleman, Julian West, is mysteriously transported from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, and finds a world that would have been unthinkable in his own time.

Offers ideas for children on how to celebrate the millennium, takes a look at life in 1000 A.D. and 3000 A.D.,and includes a timeline that provides information about interesting people, inventions, and events from the last two thousand years.

Presents Edward Bellamy's utopian novel, originally published in 1888, which follows the adventures of Julian West after he falls asleep in 1887 and awakens to find Boston in the year 2000 a near-perfect society.

Discusses the year 2000 as a milestone marking two thousand years of human achievement, as a threshold leading into a new millennium, and as an important anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ.