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The Myth of Human Races by Alain F. Corcos (Paperback, 2nd ed.): Alain F. Corcos The Myth of Human Races by Alain F. Corcos (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Alain F. Corcos
R430 Discovery Miles 4 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Folly of War - Thoughts of an Old Man (Paperback): Alain F. Corcos The Folly of War - Thoughts of an Old Man (Paperback)
Alain F. Corcos
R360 Discovery Miles 3 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Are We Going to Commit Suicide? - The Global Threat of Climate Change and Nuclear War (Paperback): Alain F. Corcos Are We Going to Commit Suicide? - The Global Threat of Climate Change and Nuclear War (Paperback)
Alain F. Corcos
R296 Discovery Miles 2 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Three Biological Myths - Race, Ancestry, Ethnicity (Paperback): Alain F. Corcos Three Biological Myths - Race, Ancestry, Ethnicity (Paperback)
Alain F. Corcos
R278 Discovery Miles 2 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Joys and Sorrows in Teaching Sex and Genetics (Paperback): Alain F. Corcos Joys and Sorrows in Teaching Sex and Genetics (Paperback)
Alain F. Corcos
R209 Discovery Miles 2 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Affirmative Action for All Our Children - And Why College Education Should Be Free (Paperback): Alain F. Corcos Affirmative Action for All Our Children - And Why College Education Should Be Free (Paperback)
Alain F. Corcos
R402 Discovery Miles 4 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Atheism, Science and Me (Paperback): Alain F. Corcos Atheism, Science and Me (Paperback)
Alain F. Corcos
R204 Discovery Miles 2 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Alain F. Corcos was raised by a family of nonbelievers. When he grew up and pursued a career in science, he encountered nothing to challenge his lack of faith. In fact, he would have considered his atheism completely unremarkable if not for the reactions he confronted again and again: - How can you be moral when you don't believe in God?
- If you know you can't prove God doesn't exist, doesn't that make you agnostic?
- Aren't you afraid of death?

In "Atheism, Science, and Me," Dr. Corcos reminisces about satisfying his thirst for knowledge through research rather than religious doctrine or philosophy. While he has no interest in "converting" anybody to atheism, the good-natured enthusiasm with which he presents his worldview conveys the joys of a life unencumbered by religion.

ALAIN F. CORCOS is a retired professor of botany. His previous books are "Mendel, Genes and You; Race and Difference Among Us"; "Biological Experiments and Ideas";" Race and You"; "Gregor Mendel's Experiments on Plant Hybrids: A Guided Study (with Floyd V. Monaghan)"; "The Myth of Human Races"; "Four Short True Stories of a French Family"; "The Myth of the Jewish Race: A Biologist's Point of View"; "The Little Yellow Train: Survival and Escape from Nazi France (June 1940-March 1944)"; and "Who Is a Jew? Thoughts of a Biologist: An Essay Dedicated to the Jewish and Non-Jewish Victims of the Nazi Holocaust."

Who is a Jew? Thoughts of a Biologist - An Essay Dedicated to the Jewish and Non-Jewish Victims of the Nazi Holocaust... Who is a Jew? Thoughts of a Biologist - An Essay Dedicated to the Jewish and Non-Jewish Victims of the Nazi Holocaust (Paperback)
Alain F. Corcos
R201 Discovery Miles 2 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

I lived with my parents and my brother in southern France under the German occupation from 1940 to 1944. We did not practice any religion, but we were Jews according to Hitler because of our ancestry. And since we had "Jewish blood" we were destined to perish. My direct family survived, which is attributed to them refusing to have anything to do with "racial" laws. However, I lost two uncles, two aunts, and two cousins in death camps. In March 1944, my brother and I, seventeen and eighteen years old, respectively, escaped from France through the Pyrenees, surrendered to the Spanish police, and were jailed for a week in Spain. We gained our freedom by being exchanged for two hundred pounds, each, of American wheat. We joined the Allied forces in North Africa and eight months later we landed in America to be trained as Air Force personnel. When the war was over, I came back to France and headed the family flower farm. I found that the methods for raising flowers were medieval and I decided to go back to the U.S. to learn more modern techniques. I landed in New York City on my way to San Luis Obispo, California, where I became a student in horticulture -- although my degrees are in botany and plant pathology. I taught, as a university professor, in genetics, and I have always considered myself a geneticist. I never forgot my experience in France as a teenager, and I never accepted the idea that I was considered a Jew because my ancestors were. My knowledge of genetics gave me a categorical answer to the eternal question of "Who is a Jew?" The answer is: Someone who follows the rites of Judaism. Jews belong to a religious federation -- no matter how loose it is. It is their religion that separates them from the world, not something biological such as genes.

Four Short True Stories of a French Family (Paperback): Alain F. Corcos Four Short True Stories of a French Family (Paperback)
Alain F. Corcos
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R289 R241 Discovery Miles 2 410 Save R48 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Alain Corcos, author of "The Little Yellow Train," presents different moments in history from the perspective of his family and friends. This is a must-read for anyone who wishes to gain insight into how historical events impact the everyday lives of those who experience them.

The Little Yellow Train - Survival and Escape from Nazi France (June 1940-March 1944) (Paperback, 2nd ed.): Alain F. Corcos The Little Yellow Train - Survival and Escape from Nazi France (June 1940-March 1944) (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Alain F. Corcos
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R456 R386 Discovery Miles 3 860 Save R70 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Between 1940 and 1944, when Alain Corcos was a teenager, the Germans systematically plundered the French countryside to feed their own armed forces and civilians. Both the Nazis and the fascist Vichy government forced everyone with "Jewish blood" to register as Jews, condemning those who complied to death in concentration camps. The Little Yellow Train chronicles the years of occupation in France, describing the Corcos family's struggles to survive. In addition to finding enough food to sustain themselves, they needed to forge records and identification cards in order to conceal the fact that some of their ancestors were Jewish. When the SS began kidnapping young French men and women to work in German factories, the author and his brother decided that the time had come to escape and join the Allied forces overseas.

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