Nicky Barber has narrated 3 audiobooks on Listento.it by 3 authors. The most-rated is Steampunk Holmes.
The Charisma Coach
Summary
Steve Jobs had it. George Clooney has it. So does Don Draper. Charisma is intangible but powerful - the personality trait that's used to win friends and influence people. Olivia Fox Cabane wasn't born with it. She was a high-school outcast in a country where she didn't fit in, a socially awkward teenager baffled by the nuance of social interactions. But she was also an analytical thinker. After high school, she found ways to reverse engineer her own shortcomings. And she was so successful that business executives now pay her to do the same to them. Cabane combines the usual self-help spiel with a dose of science, but do her claims stand up to scrutiny? And what does her success tell us about charisma? In an in-depth analysis of the woman who teaches technology power brokers to be more human, writer Teresa Chin examines the science of charisma, and asks exactly why Silicon Valley needs a charisma coach in the first place.
©2013 Matter Publishing Inc (P)2013 Matter Publishing Inc
Ghost in the Cell
Summary
With a violent, alcoholic mother and a father who committed suicide when she was just a baby, Yokia Mason's life has never been easy. And after a childhood in which she and her siblings were subjected to vicious beatings and abuse, some of her family also turned to violence and crime. How do we make sense of a life like Yokia's? Scientists have spent decades trying, and their focus has been the complex sociology of urban life. But now a small band of researchers is claiming that biology plays a vitally important role. It's a controversial idea, but the aim is not to resurrect the horrors of eugenics. Instead, the researchers are arguing instead that childhood traumas can leave an imprint on a victim's cells, affecting not only their lives and abilities on a genetic level, but potentially those of their children too. Author Scott Johnson has reported from Afghanistan, Iraq and central Africa. In the fifth story from experimental publisher MATTER, he weaves the extraordinary story of Yokia's life into an examination of new results from the science of epigenetics - a field that may change the way we think about child abuse, mental illness and violence forever.
©2013 Matter Publishing Inc (P)2013 Matter Publishing Inc
Steampunk Holmes
Summary
In an alternative Steampunk universe (c.1885), the plans for Captain Nemo's mysterious Nautilus submarine have been stolen from the British Secret Service. There is only one man who can solve the case, Sherlock Holmes. With his bionic side-kick Doctor Watson, and his brilliant and lethal sister, Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock unravels a mystery that will shake the foundation of the British Empire.
©2012 Noble Beast, LLC (P)2012 Noble Beast, LLC