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This edition of the best selling book by James Gleik, Chaos, was published by Minerva in 1997. It was the first book which introduced the concept of Chaos, a completely new science. Chaos defines a completely random phenomenon which defies ways of normal science and strays away from accepted universal behaviour. It includes description of terms like Julia sets, Lorenz Attractors, and Mandelbrot Set which are illustrated with sketches and photographs. Gleik describes Chaos as the parts of the world that are unpredictable, apparently random, disorderly, erratic, irregular, unruly, and misbehaved, a pattern which he studied and described in his book. The book was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. James Gleick was born on 1st August, 1954, in New York and he graduated from Harvard University in English and Linguistics. He started his career as a Journalist and later became a famous author and biographer. He worked for the Harvard Crimson as a freelance journalist before he moved to Minneapolis and founded his own newspaper called Metropolis. He later returned to work for the New York Times. Gleick is active on the boards of the Authors Guild and the Key West Literary Seminar. In 1993, he founded The Pipeline, an early Internet service. Other books written by him are Nature’s Chaos, The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, The Acceleration of Just About Everything, The Best American Science Writing 2000, and What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Electronic Frontier.