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  By Faith Alone, Luther
Luther understands human nature and man's condition. He knows how Christians are and how they live...imperfectly! But, it is faith alone that justifies you in the eyes of God. Don't worry my brothers and sisters in Christ, God loves you in spite of y...
 
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  The Bondage of the Will, Luther
Some will see this book as nothing more than Martin Luther's combative apologetic against the doctrine of free will and works salvation. But this is precisely why this book ranks among the best ever written because it passionately, logically, and dec...
 
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  Jan Huygen van Linschoten
Jan Huygen van Linschoten was an adventurer who accompanied a Portuguese vessel to India. His Reysgheschrift, published in 1595, recorded explicit sailing directions he had garnered from Portuguese rutters for entering the Indian Ocean by way of the...
 
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  Itinerario, Jan Huygen van Linschoten
Civil and Corrupt Asia: Image and Text in the Itinerario and the Icones of Jan Huygen Van Linschoten. Jan Huygen van Linschoten (1562-1611) was a Dutchman who in 1596 penned the famous Itinerario, an account of his travel to the Indian Peninsular, wi...
 
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  Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States (1861-1865), guided his country through the most devastating experience in its national history-the CIVIL WAR (1861-1865). He is considered by many historians to have been the greatest American...
 
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  Charles Lindbergh, Aviator
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, an American aviator, made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927. Other pilots had crossed the Atlantic before him. But Lindbergh was the first person to do it alone nonstop. Lindbergh's...
 
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  James Lovelock, Scientist
James Lovelock is the author of approximately 200 scientific papers, distributed almost equally among topics in Medicine, Biology, Instrument Science and Geophysiology. He has filed more than 50 patents, mostly for detectors for use in chemical analy...
 
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  First Flight New York - Paris, Lindbergh
Early in the morning on May 20, 1927 Charles A. Lindbergh took off in The Spirit of St. Louis from Roosevelt Field near New York City. Flying northeast along the coast, he was sighted later in the day flying over Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. From St...
 
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  Karl Lagerfeld, Fashion Designer
"Kaiser Karl", as he is known in the fashion press, was born to a wealthy Swedish businessman and his German wife in Hamburg, in 1938. It seems that his destiny was mapped out at an early age, for as the story goes, he was said to have demanded a val...
 
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  John Lasseter, Director
Lover of traditional hand-drawn animation since adolescence, Lasseter made his mark in the field as a pioneering director of computer generated animation helming both the first computer-animated film to win an Oscar (1988's "Tin Toy", the winner for...
 
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  Gaia Hypothesis, Cooperative Evolution
Lynn Margulis has been Lovelock's principal collaborator for twenty-five years. She is an expert on the role that microorganisms play in evolution. In the late 1960's, at the same time that the Gaia Hypothesis was first being stated, Margulis first p...
 
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  Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
Good things do come in small packages. The book is all of 140 pages, and is written in a lean, but not glossed-over style. Robert Lovelock (to my knowledge) is the contemporary father of the study of the earth as a complete living system. Lovelock...
 
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  Toy Story, Lasseter
Toy Story is about the 'secret life of toys' when people are not around. When Buzz Lightyear, a space-ranger, takes Woody's place as Andy's favorite toy, Woody doesn't like the situation and gets into a fight with Buzz. Accidentaly Buzz falls out the...
 
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  A Bugs Life, Lasseter
Every year, a bunch of grasshoppers come to the anthill and eat what the ants have gathered for them. The "offering", as the ants call the ritual, is a part of their fate. One day in spring, when the offering's preparation has just been finished, Fli...
 
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  Toy Story 2, Lasseter
In "Toy Story 2," the fun and adventure continues when Andy goes off to summer camp and the toys are left to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector kidnaps Woody who unbeknownst to himself is a highly valued co...
 
         

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