Vernon Ehlers, a physicist and educator, served Michigan’s Third Congressional District in the U.S. House from 1993. Formerly a professor at Calvin College and UC Berkeley, he succeeded President Gerald R. Ford’s Grand Rapids seat.
Russell Shorto's bestselling history packs a wallop of a story, moving from the halls of power in London and The Hague to bloody naval encounters on the high seas to the uncharted wilderness Manhattan once was.
William B. Eerdmans, a Dutch immigrant arriving in 1902, founded the William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company in Grand Rapids. Beginning as a theological bookseller, he built a leading Calvinist publishing house known for influential biblical scholarship.
"For anyone seeking to answer the question, 'What was New Netherland?' this little volume is a handy, richly packed resource. It gives you the background, the actors, the action, and the legacy. In clear prose, it covers a lot of history in a few pages."
Thomas Edison was an entrepreneurial inventor who transformed existing ideas into practical, commercially successful products. Holding 1,093 U.S. patents, he pioneered team-based innovation and achieved extraordinary success despite having only three months of formal education.
In 1634, Harmen van den Bogaert led a Dutch West India Company expedition into Iroquois territory, documenting New York’s interior and its native peoples in the earliest known surviving account.
Derek Van Eck was an American investment manager and commodities trader who co-managed Van Eck Global with his brother Jan. A Williams College and Northwestern graduate, he helped guide the family investment firm before his death in 2010.
Len Tantillo brings 17th-century Delaware River rivalry to life with vivid illustrations, exploring Dutch-Swedish conflict, the fur trade, and a reconstructed fort—featuring historical insight by Dr. Charles Gehring.
A romp through the history of New Netherland that would surely have Petrus Stuyvesant complaining about the riot transpiring between its pages ... Readers are guaranteed a genuine adventure that will evoke the full range of human emotions.
John Van Eck was a pioneer in international mutual fund investing and founder of International Investors Incorporated in 1955, later known as Van Eck Global. A Williams College and Harvard MBA graduate, he helped popularize global equity and gold investing.
