“karl maier”

Based on hundreds of interviews - with traditional healers, chiefs, business innovators, scientists, generals, doctors, poets, and politicians, - Into the House of the Ancestors goes beyond cliched images of corruption, brutality, and starvation to illuminate the essence of Africa's extraordinary sp... More

Maier, who for ten years was The Independent's correspondent in Angola, discusses the realities behind the country's civil war as well as giving a vivid eyewitness account of the devastation it caused. Skeptical of both sides' promises and lies, his is a classic account of one of the civil wars that... More

To understand Africa, one must understand Nigeria, and few Americans understand Nigeria better than Karl Maier. "This House Has Fallen" is a bracing and disturbing report on the state of Africa's most populous, potentially richest, and most dangerously dysfunctional nation.Each year, with depressing... More

Dr. Benjamin Spock, through his Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, may have had a greater effect on the everyday lives of more people than any other living American. His personal life, however, was shaken by failure and tragedy. Thomas Maier's extensive interviews with Spock, his family, and ... More

A new understanding of the nature of advanced industrial economies is derived from this extensive investigation of the ways in which the boundaries of the political have changed in Europe since the 1960s.... More