Books with author John F. Martin

The unreliability of the San Diego River compelled the Franciscan fathers to construct the area's first dam in 1813 to conserve drinking and irrigation water for the Mission San Diego de Alcal." This water-driven circumstance continued and expanded in the ensuing American era. Lacking a reliable water source at the turn of the 20th century, San Diego County was destined to experience modest growth. The region's semiarid conditions, cyclical droughts, and existing river systems determined that the only effective way to maintain a ready water supply was to conserve runoff and river floodwaters behind dam-created reservoirs. Between 1888 and 1934, private and municipal interests constructed a series of massive structures that made San Diego County the dam-building center of the world. The county featured some of America's first multiple arch dams and earliest hydraulic fill dams. Into the mid-1940s, dammed reservoirs remained the principle water source for county consumers and made the municipal expansion of the city of San Diego possible.

Meet Smiley. Alien Feline Second Lieutenant and Earth’s self proclaimed ruler. Leader of Qwuedeviv Crew 52, Smiley has been sent to infiltrate Earth. There’s just one little problem; due to some poor planning and a possible lack of breakfast prior to launch, Smiley crash lands its drop pod and finds itself separated from its crew. With no way to contact Headquarters and a minor (very, very minor of course) fear of being caught, Smiley sets out to conquer the planet on its own. But with Ice Shooting Land Serpents protecting every yard and Earthian Media taunting a soldier’s very best resolve, how is one fuzzy invader supposed to complete its mission? Follow Smiley in one of its many crazy adventures of world conquest filled with laughs and the very best of kitty logic.

Second Lt. Smiley still believes its mission is to infiltrate and rule Earth. After all, who could possibly be a better choice for such a task? Smiley attempts to explain Crew 52’s directive to Corporal Spork, but the shark-like Qwuedeviv isn’t convinced. The only logical solution is to locate the rest of Crew 52 and reestablish communication with HQ, but that is easier said than done. The fur will fly and the search is on.

This book depicts the cruise of Jack London's forty-five-foot ketch Snark in 1906 - 1908. The world-famous writer, his wife and the daring crew sailed the tiny craft for two years through the South Seas.Mr. Martin Johnson, the author of this book, who started in as cook, soon became the close friend and chief companion of Mr. London. His work, detailed and complete, gives real insight into life aboard the yacht and among the myriad islands of the South Pacific.

This is the book that gonna help you to recognize some dangers in old school thinking and will open your mind & train your financial education. Borned in a small village in Portugal John Martins a few months later his twenty-second anniversary was already a five digits monthly earner. After his twenty-third anniversary, he decide to diversify his investments and a few months later already owned 2 companies, 4 flats rented and 4 offices, shops and warehouses. But like many who had a great rise, in 2011 became his worst year and started his big fall in businesses and personal life. In this book he reveals the mistakes he did, how is possible to overcome the consequences & share with us how personal development is the key tool to fix all challenges and improve several areas of your life ( relationships, sport achievement, business, and last but not the least how to transform your dreams in reality! ). Written in the first person this book isn't about drama or science fiction, it's all about real experiences in real life of an young entrepreneur that saw 7 years of hard work disappearing in a few months and falling into large debts.​ The author shares the importance of keeping goals and dreams alive, how to protect you from bad influences even if they are well intended and how to feed your mind with which it calls "good nutrition for the spirit". An easy language to understand, because John writes with the straight words ( not politically correct ), warnings about some negative people that whispers to your ears and try to program your unconscious and how to compensate all negative information that surround all each of us.

The stories we tell shape us, they express the limits of our hopes and disappointments, and they can even encourage and inspire us. These folk tales were collected mainly from people who lived in the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky and North Carolina. Many of the tales have been handed down for generations. Some are newly conceived. Laughter, especially, tickles our minds and lets us take a look at our feelings--at inconsistencies, at impossibilities, and then at surprise solutions to what seemed impossible. No matter where you live, it is important to know that there may be solutions. As to explanations, where theologians seriously study life's situations, these tails provide wags!

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