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Learn about the process of Immunisation with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

For many people, immunisation is their only hope at survival. It is responsible for saving millions of lives every year, eradicating some of the most horrific viruses, and increasing global health awareness. Without immunisation, historical plagues such as the “Black Death,” “Smallpox,” and “Spanish Influenza” would still be around. If we didn’t have immunisation, many of us wouldn’t be here.

Immunisation records go as far back as the 10th century, but the modern technique didn’t start until 1721. During this year, an English scientist named Edward Jenner noticed that milk maids who were infected with the cowpox virus were immune to smallpox outbreaks.

Perfect to listen to while commuting, exercising, shopping or cleaning the house.. iMinds brings knowledge to your MP3 with 8 minute information segments to whet your mental appetite and broaden your mind.

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Lieutenant Jonathan Stride is suffering from an ugly case of déjà vu. For the second time in a year, a beautiful teenage girl has disappeared off the streets of Duluth, Minnesota—gone without a trace, like a bitter gust off Lake Superior. The two victims couldn’t be more different. First it was Kerry McGrath, bubbly, sweet sixteen and now Rachel Deese, a strange, sexually charged, wild child. The media hounds Stride to catch a serial killer. The search carries him from the icy stillness of the northern woods to the erotic heat of Las Vegas, where he must decide which facts are real and which are illusions.  Stride’s own life becomes changed forever by the secrets he uncovers, secrets that stretch across time in a web of lies, death, and illicit desire. Secrets that are chillingly immoral.

Brian Freeman is an international best-selling author of psychological suspense novels, including Immoral, Stripped, and Stalked. His books have been sold in forty-six countries and seventeen languages and have appeared as main selections in the Literary Guild and the Book of the Month Club.

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A classic tale of terror…
No writer has been as influential or as enduring as Edgar Allen Poe. This giant of American letters is still read, listened to and translated all over the world.

The Tell Tale Heart…
Is one of Poe’s most enduring stories. Madness, a frequent theme in Poe’s work is front and center here. An innocent man is murdered for the thinnest of reasons. The police come to investigate. A young man’s own diseased psyche is his undoing.

This recording…
is a dramatic reading with sound effects, and a must have for all fans of Poe, and the weird tale tradition. You may think you know the climax to this story, but you must hear how it’s rendered here. This recording is part of the on-going audio theater series…

Imagination-X

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It is the past…
Depression ravages the land. The people live like ghosts, the fear of what might come tomorrow driving them to alcohol and violence and despair. Constant noise filters into their lives from the latest invention: Radio. On a farm in the far west,

Two children…
Attempt to survive hard times the way children have always survived – by telling stories, by scaring each other, by creating horrors of the imagination to keep back the horrors of reality. Then, their pretend world, and reality, cross.

Bogman…
Stars three members of the radio-making Adams family of International Falls, Minnesota. First webcast in 2004, Bogman is part of the award winning audio theater series

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A Reporter hot on the story of his lifetime…
A mysterious research facility. Human subjects who don’t receive visitors. A powerful man with disdain for interference. These are the forces that drove reporter Jeffrey Adams to sneak through the security perimeter of the Oregon Center for Severe Disability one night and find out what’s going on.

The Actual Recordings…
Done on dates and times indicated, ‘10.25.03’ is an experiment in what might be called ‘Audio Verte’, There was no script. There was no direction. There was just one man, an audio recorder, and the events that took place late at night on October 25, 2003. Originally web cast on Halloween, ‘10.25.03’ was produced by Jeffrey Adams as part of an experimental audio series…

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     “My intention is to portray a really beautiful soul.”¾Dostoevsky

     In The Idiot, a saintly man, Prince Myshkin, is thrust into the heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power, and sexual conquest than the ideals of Christianity. Myshkin soon finds himself at the center of a violent love triangle in which a notorious woman and a beautiful young girl become rivals for his affections. Extortion, scandal, and murder follow, testing the wreckage left by human misery to find “man in man.”

     The Idiot is a quintessentially Russian novel, one that penetrates the complex psyche of the Russian people. “They call me a psychologist,” wrote Dostoevsky. “That is not true. I’m only a realist in the higher sense; that is, I portray all the depths of the human soul.”

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Shoshana Johnson, the first black female soldier in America’s history to be taken as a prisoner of war, presents the much-anticipated story of her capture and imprisonment in Iraq and what happened after her rescue.

In March 2003, Operation Iraqi Freedom was barely in its infancy when a U.S. Army supply convoy was attacked in Iraq. Several soldiers were killed and six were taken prisoner. Their captors released a grainy video revealing the faces of the first POWs of the war in Iraq. One of the female soldiers was Shoshana Johnson, the first black female prisoner of war in America’s military history. The other was Jessica Lynch who caught the media’s attention.

Now, after years of coming to terms with her capture and its aftermath, Shoshana recounts her full story with candor, exposing her emotions and frustrations and addressing her fears. For the first time, she’ll also explain the strange decision made by higher-ups that led to their weapons jamming during the fight so they couldn’t defend themselves; the true reason why their convoy made a "wrong turn" which led to their capture; and what, exactly, happened to her and her fellow soldiers during the 22 days of their captivity, which none of them have told because of a military gag order. Her perspective of the ambush is revealing and her insight into life as a female POW inspirational.

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Set in the first century a.d. in Rome and written as an autobiographical memoir, this colorful story of the life of the Roman emperor Claudius stands as one of the modern classics of historical fiction.

Physically weak and afflicted with stuttering, Claudius is initially despised and dismissed as an idiot. Shunted to the background of imperial affairs by his embarrassed royal family, he becomes a scholar and historian, while palace intrigues and murders surround him. Observing these dramas from beyond the public eye, Claudius escapes the cruelties inflicted on the rest of the royal family by its own members and survives to become emperor of Rome in a.d. 41.

Robert Graves (1895–1985) was an English poet, translator, and novelist. He fought in World War I and won international acclaim in 1929 with the publication of his memoir of the war, Good-bye to All That. He is most noted for his series of novels about the Roman emperor Claudius and was awarded the 1934 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for both I, Claudius and Claudius the God.

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Meet Joseph Walker, a patient at the Oakbrook Mental Health Facility. In this audio drama, Joseph obtains access to a cassette recorder and then creates an audio letter for his sister Rose.

Over the course of several days he introduces her to his doctor and several fellow inmates, one of whom suggests to Joseph that his life bears a striking resemblance to that of Edgar Allan Poe.

Joseph then proceeds to familiarize himself with the works of E.A. Poe. His fluency with Poe’s work is astonishing?to others and himself. And it is this familiarity, this ease with Poe’s works, that leads Joseph to believe that he himself might be the Master of Horror.

Based on the internationally award-winning play, this production features performances of various Poe stories and poems including The Raven and The Tell-Tale Heart.

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“[Mahoney] treats us to some of the finest police work since William Canutiz.”—The New York Times Book Review   “Fast-paced, intriguing…a first-rate thriller.”—San Francisco Examiner   “This rapid-fire narration leaves the listener panting with anticipation and tension for the next detailed step….”—AudioFile   NYPD Detective Brian McKenna is back where he belongs: hunting down a mysterious killer who preys upon the city’s most forgotten members. At first blush, it seems as if these homeless men have frozen to death on the city streets. But the succession of deaths seems too suspicious for McKenna to ignore. He soon finds that all of the victims were HIV-positive, and all were seen taking their last drink from a bottle of wine given to them by a gaunt, black-clad man called “Hyde.”   Who is this sinister figure, and why is he killing harmless men who are already at death’s door? A hell-bent McKenna must chase the murderer from the streets of Manhattan through Europe and finally to Costa Rica to uncover the astounding answer.   Dan Mahoney was born and raised in New York City. After serving as a Marine in Vietnam, he followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather and joined the New York City Police Department where he served for twenty-five years before retiring as captain. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, Yvette, who is a New York City police officer.  

Author: Dan Mahoney

Duration: 17 hours 35 minutes

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