YOUNIVERSE

What are you? Who are you? Where are you going? The beginner's guide to modern science.

Youniverse is a short, accessible beginners' guide to modern science. It's also a travel guide. It describes in simple terms the world you are inseparably a part of: what it is, how it works and, most importantly, your place in it – insofar as these things are known.

The Big Bang, matter, energy, particle physics, biology, evolution and the future of technology are the subjects. Plain speech, short chapters, digestible chunks of information, absence of scientific terms
and equations are the style. Science is a realm of marvels. You are going to travel through time and space -- a world of the unimaginably big and the inconceivably small.

It's the book the author wished for when she first made this journey herself. The text has been vetted by 13 distinguished scientists, including one Nobel Prize Winner and four Fellows of the Royal Society.

ELSIE BURCH DONALD is not a scientist. She is a professional writer. In addition to being a successful literary novelist, she has published three guide books, each of which became the go-to guide on its subject. She grew up on a cotton farm near Memphis, Tennessee, and now divides her time between London and
southwest France.