A Nice Intro to CAS, Chaos, and Jazz

Rendered as only Morris Holbrook can, Adventures in Complexity: An Essay on Dynamic Open Complex Adaptive Systems, Butterfly Effects, Self-Organizing Order, Coevolution, the Ecological Perspective, Fitness Landscapes, Market Spaces, Emergent Beauty at the Edge of Chaos, and All That Jazz provides a nice primer on key literature of which you should be aware. This article is also available in PDF Format.