Youniverse: A Short Guide to Modern Science

Your guide to science, from the Big Bang to AI. Whether you wish to discover the basics of science or catch up on its latest developments, this short accessible guide is for you. YOUNIVERSE describes in simple terms the world you are inseparably a part of: what it is, how it works and your place in it insofar as these things are known. The text has been vetted by 13 distinguished scientists. Journey now through time and space, a world of the unimaginably big and the inconceivably small though the marvels of science. AUTHOR: Elsie Donald Burch is not a scientist but she is an autodidactic learner. She was born in Tennessee and educated at local schools, Sweet Briar College, in Virginia, and Edinburgh University. She worked at Marshall Cavendish, editing a multi-volume encyclopaedia, then started a small book packaging company called Tigerlily before becoming a full time writer. Elsie has published six books, three novels and three guide books including: A Model American (Doubleday), A Rope of Sand (Doubleday), Nashborough (HarperCollins), The French Farmhouse (Little, Brown), Debrett’s Etiquette and Modern Manners (creator and editor), and The London Shopping Guide (Penguin). Today, she divides her time between London and southwest France.