Travis Langley - editor has 5 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 9 narrators, with an average listener rating of 3.5★ across 12 ratings. The most-rated is The Walking Dead Psychology.
The Walking Dead Psychology
Summary
By understanding the psychological forces that drive The Walking Dead's action, fans can better grasp Robert Kirkman's compelling fictional universe. Which characters suffer PTSD, which show the most hope for recovery, and which instead show post-traumatic growth? Has Rick Grimes lost his mind? What's it like for a kid like Carl growing up during the zombie apocalypse? Is the Governor a psychopath, a sociopath, or something even worse? What does that make Negan? What is the emotional cost of killing a walker or even another living person? What does Terror Management Theory tell us about what it means to fight constantly or survival? What is groupthink and how does it affect the decisions made by the people of Woodbury, Terminus, Alexandria, and Rick's "family"? How do they find hope? In 19 chapters from a range of esteemed contributors, plus "Case Files" sidebars by renowned editor Travis Langley with a foreword by George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead co-creator John Russo, The Walking Dead Psychology: Psych of the Living Dead answers these and many other questions in a way sure to fascinate the millions of passionate graphic novel readers and TV viewers. Contributors include: John Blanchar Megan Blink Colt J. Blunt Josué Cardona Adam Davis William Blake Erickson Frank Gaskill Jennifer Golbeck Jonathan Hetterly Katrina Hill Alan Kistler Dana Klisanin Stephen Kuniak Martin Lloyd Stephanie Norman Patrick O’Connor Katherine Ramsland Clay Routledge Billy San Juan Janina Scarlet Steven Schlozman Lara Taylor Dave Verhaagen Mara Wood E. Paul Zehr
©2015 Travis Langley (P)2018 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Doctor Who Psychology
Summary
How does an immortal deal with death? What kind of person makes the best companion? Why does the Doctor say he and Freud "got on very well"? How do the Daleks and Cybermen reflect concerns about losing our humanity? And what can looking at an ancient Time Lord teach us about real human nature? Doctor Who Psychology: A Madman with a Box explores these questions and many more. Chapters include: "Getting to the Hearts of Time Lord Personality Change" "Who's Who: Interview with Four Doctors and a River on the Core of Personality" "Post-Time War Stress Disorder" "From Human to Machine: At What Point Do You Lose Your Soul?" Doctor Who Psychology explores the alien in us all. This fascinating in-depth collection, edited by Travis Langley, contains 19 chapters and other special features delving into the psychology behind the time-traveling Doctor in his many iterations, as well as his companions and his foes.
©2016 Travis Langley (P)2018 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Star Trek Psychology
Summary
The next entry in Sterling's Popular Culture Psychology series features 20 chapters and exclusive interviews with cast members and Rod Roddenberry. In a fun and accessible way, Star Trek Psychology delves deep into the psyches of the show's well-known and beloved characters. The trailblazing franchise spans five TV series, 13 films, and countless novelizations. It celebrated, as no other form of entertainment had before, a world filled with space-traveling dreams and human diversity. In the process, it became one of the oldest and most popular sci-fi franchises of all time. Star Trek Psychology uses academic and scientific theories to analyze and answer such questions as why Trek's aliens look so human and how the starship's holodeck can be used for therapy. This compilation examines alien neurobiology, discusses identity formation for shapeshifters, explores the importance of emotion for artificial intelligence, and much more.
©2017 Travis Langley (P)2018 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Game of Thrones Psychology
Summary
This thought-provoking anthology offers a close examination of the psychology behind the intricate narrative and compelling characters in author George R.R. Martin's best-selling work, A Song of Ice and Fire, and the popular HBO TV series based upon his books, Game of Thrones. In Martin's richly detailed world, deceit, manipulation, and greed rule the day, and almost everyone fights for power over the realm or simply over their own lives. How do love and hate, good and evil, need and greed, altruism and narcissism drive the very best and very worst human behaviors? With no moral boundaries honored, the psychological games played by the series' conniving protagonists are seemingly limitless. Game of Thrones Psychology: The Mind Is Dark and Full of Terrors explores motivations, relations, personality disorders, psychopathy, trauma, and much more. What kind of person can survive the game of thrones, much less hope to win?
©2016 Travis Langley (P)2018 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Wonder Woman Psychology
Summary
For 75 years, Wonder Woman has served as an inspiration to people everywhere. Wonder Woman Psychology: Lassoing the Truth examines this powerful superhero - who was created by famous psychologist William Moulton Marston - through 20 chapters, including some very special interviews and the previously unpublished memoir of Elizabeth Holloway Marston. This collection analyzes: Marston's important role in the history of forensic psychology How Diana's relationship with her mother and Amazonian sisters shapes her to become a leader and the heroine called Wonder Woman The ways differences in culture and gender can contribute to alienation but also to personal empowerment What roles emotion, strengths, virtues, and culture shock play in heroic behavior And what it truly means to be a wonder
©2017 Travis Langley (P)2018 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books