Catherine Price Books

A dynamic exploration of our vitamin obsession and what it's doing to our health

How to Break Up With Your Phone is a smart, practical and useful plan to help you conquer your mobile phone addiction in just 30 days - and take back your life in the process. Recent studies have shown that spending extended time on our phones affects our ability to form new memories, think deeply, focus and absorb information, and the hormones triggered every time we hear our phones buzz both add to our stress levels and are the hallmark signs of addiction. In How to Break Up with Your Phone, award-winning science journalist Catherine Price explores the effects that our constant connectivity is having on our brains, bodies, relationships, and society at large and asks, how much time do you really want to spend on your phone? Over the course of 30 days, Catherine will guide you through an easy-to-follow plan that enables you to identify your goals, priorities and bad habits, tidy your apps, prune your email, and take time away. Lastly, you will create a new, healthier relationship with your phone and establish habits and routines to ensure this new relationship sticks

In How to break up with your phone award-winning science journalist Catherine price provides an easy-to-follow plan to help you conquer your mobile phone addiction in just 30 days. Packed with tested strategies and practical tips, How to break up with your phone will enable you to set yourself free from a life lived through a screen.

"In our always-on, productivity-addicted lifestyles, we tend to think of the pursuit of fun as being indulgent, even immature and childish. When we do find the time to relax or care for ourselves, we tend to turn to activities that are not actually restorative: binging Netflix, scrolling through Twitter, or indulging our FOMO on Instagram. Through years of research, journalist Catherine Price has learned the truth: far from being frivolous or a distraction, fun is actually the secret to achieving our goals. If you reorient your life around what you personally find fun--true fun--you will be happier and healthier. You will be more productive, less resentful, and less stressed. You will have more energy, for yourself and for other people. You will find community and a sense of purpose. You will feel alive again"--Publisher's description.

"In our always-on, productivity-addicted lifestyles, we tend to think of the pursuit of fun as being indulgent, even immature and childish. When we do find the time to relax or care for ourselves, we tend to turn to activities that are not actually restorative: binging Netflix, scrolling through Twitter, or indulging our FOMO on Instagram. Through years of research, journalist Catherine Price has learned the truth: far from being frivolous or a distraction, fun is actually the secret to achieving our goals. If you reorient your life around what you personally find fun--true fun--you will be happier and healthier. You will be more productive, less resentful, and less stressed. You will have more energy, for yourself and for other people. You will find community and a sense of purpose. You will feel alive again"-- Provided by publisher

Irreverent and compulsively readable, 101 Places Not to See Before You Die highlights destinations we can all live without - like Jupiter's Worst Moon, an Outdoor Wedding During the 2021 Reemergence of the Great Eastern Cicada Brood, and fan hours at the Las Vegas Porn Convention - while reminding us why we're willing to put up with the bed bugs and the food poisoning and set out to explore the world.

Annabelle yearns for romance. She longs to be like the heroines whose exploits she follows in her beloved Fanny Sparrow novels. When her aunt and uncle invite her to go to Bath for the season, she feels as if her every dream is about to come true.But reality and fantasy don't always see eye-to-eye, and even supposed friends can be hiding ugly truths. A chance encounter with a handsome man as she's attempting to escape a horrible miscreant sets Annabelle's heart to thumping and her imagination to running rampant.Her uncle has just inherited Godshollow, a gothic castle hidden in the heart of the Gloucestershire countryside. Is Annabelle's long-awaited adventure about to begin? And will she survive it?

Unsere Beziehung zum Smartphone ist einseitig: Wir interessieren uns für das Handy, aber das Handy interessiert sich nicht für uns. Es ist rücksichtslos, klingelt in unpassenden Momenten; es zieht ununterbrochen unsere Aufmerksamkeit auf sich. Doch wie gewinnen wir die Kontrolle über unsere Abende, unsere Wochenenden, wie gewinnen wir unsere ruhigen Stunden zurück? Catherine Price schreibt einen kurzen, energischen Ratgeber, der hilft, unser Smartphone-Verhalten in den Griff zu bekommen und aktiv zu entscheiden, was wir wirklich mit unserer Zeit machen möchten.