Francesco Saba Sardi Books

First with your head and then with your heart . . . So says Hoppie Groenwald, boxing champion, to a seven-year-old boy who dreams of being the welterweight champion of the world. For the young Peekay, it is a piece of advice that he will carry with him throughout his life. Born in a South Africa divided by racism and hatred, this one small boy will come to lead all the tribes of Africa. Through enduring friendships with Hymie and Gideon, Peekay gains the strength he needs to win out. And in a final conflict with his childhood enemy, the Judge, Peekay will fight to the death for justice. Bryce Courtenay's classic bestseller is a story of the triumph of the human spirit – a spellbinding tale for all ages.

To Have Or to Be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Nothing less than a manifesto for a new social and psychological revolution to save our threatened planet, this book is a summary of the penetrating thought of Eric Fromm. His thesis is that two modes of existence struggle for the spirit of humankind: the having mode, which concentrates on material possessions, power, and aggression, and is the basis of the universal evils of greed, envy, and violence; and the being mode, which is based on love, the pleasure of sharing, and in productive activity. To Have Or to Be? is a brilliant program for socioeconomic change.>

Los templos del norte de Egipto están desiertos y los dioses han caído en el olvido. La corrupción y la injusticia campan a sus anchas. Han pasado cinco siglos desde los tiempos esplendorosos de Ramsés, cinco siglos en los que el imperio se ha visto abocado a una situación insostenible de la que parece que nunca va a salir. Sin embargo, un nubio se enfrenta a dicha fatalidad: Pianjy, el faraón negro, que gobierna en su reino del Sur con sabiduría y bondad. Un solo deseo alberga en su corazón: que los dioses vuelvan a instalarse en un nuevo Egipto de justicia y amor. Pero el precio que deberá pagar para conseguirlo tal vez sea demasiado elevado; Pianjy, hombre de paz, deberá enfrentarse al libio Tefnakt, un príncipe norteño autoritario y ambicioso que pretende reinar tras unificar el país con la fuerza de las armas. La guerra es inevitable, y de la victoria de uno u otro depende la supervivencia de un mundo sabio y milenario... ¿Le bastará al faraón negro su valentía para salir vencedor de la contienda? ¿Será la magia de su esposa capaz de conseguir lo imposible? Con su nueva novela, El faraón negro, Christian Jacq se consagra una vez más como uno de los autores de bestsellers de mayor éxito del momento.

Trade Size ppbd illustrated cover 500 pages 16pgs of photos published in New Delhi

This extraordinary bestseller is still the most incisive, thought-provoking book ever written about the Middle East. Thomas L. Friedman, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, and now the Foreign Affairs columnist on the op-ed page of the New York Times, drew on his ten years in the Middle East to write a book that The Wall Street Journal called "a sparkling intellectual guidebook... an engrossing journey not to be missed." Now with a new chapter that brings the ever-changing history of the conflict in the Middle East up to date, this seminal historical work reaffirms both its timeliness and its timelessness. "If you're only going to read one book on the Middle East, this is it." -- Seymour Hersh

Un paesaggio vasto, incantato, risonante: i monti Appalachi, i torrenti, gli alberi, gli animali. Un nonno, metà scozzese e metà indiano che conosce i segreti curativi delle piante e legge Shakespeare a tutta la famiglia. Willow John, il vecchio che non sa smettere di soffrire per la perdita della sua terra. Il signor Wine, il venditore ambulante che insegna matematica e spiega come funziona la legge. Grazie a loro “Piccolo Albero” crescerà, senza mai smettere di guardare il mondo con ammirazione e con sorpresa. Imparerà ad avere fiducia nelle persone e a non fidarsi ciecamente delle autorità. Grazie alla natura, agli alberi, agli animali apprenderà a vivere in armonia con ciò che lo circonda; con la voce che scaturisce al profondo della terra.

An unconventional woman trapped in a conventional marriage, Martha Quest struggles to maintain her dignity and her sanity through the misunderstandings, frustrations, infidelities, and degrading violence of a failing marriage. Finally, she must make the heartbreaking choice of whether to sacrifice her child as she turns her back on marriage and security. A Proper Marriage is the second novel in Doris Lessing's classic Children of Violence series of novels, each a masterpiece on its own right, and, taken together, an incisive and all-encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century.

A psychoanalyst offers guidance in expressing love and experiencing the emotional satisfaction of complete human relationships

Designed to take fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings deeper into the myths and legends of Middle-earth.