title: Chaos: Making a New Science
author:  James Gleick 
description: Few writers distinguish themselves by their ability to write about complicated, even obscure topics clearly and engagingly. James Gleick, a former science writer for the <I>New York Times</I>, resides in this exclusive category. In <I>Chaos</I>, he takes on the job of depicting the first years of the study of chaos--the seemingly random patterns that characterize many natural phenomena.
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  ALSO BY JAMES GLEICK
  
  
  Chaos: Making a New Science
  
  
  Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
  
  
  Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything
  
  
  What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Information Frontier
  
  
  Isaac Newton
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Copyright © 2011 by James Gleick
  
  
  All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a
  division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of
  Canada Limited, Toronto.
  
  
  Pantheon Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
  
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  
  Gleick, James.
  
  
  The information : a history, a theory, a flood / James Gleick.
  
  
  p. cm.
  
  
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
  
  eISBN 978-0-307-37957-3
  
  
  1\. Information science—History. 2. Information society. I. Title.
  
  
  Z665.G547 2011 020.9—dc22 2010023221
  
  
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