Books with author John Harding Martin

If you need to turn teapot cosies into fashion accessories, this is the how-to book for you!This is a collection of funny columns that have appeared in various Australian newspapers and on John Martin's website. Martin is better known these days as the writer of mysteries with a funnybone but this is a nod to his past as a journalist. If fashion isn't your cup of tea, perhaps rats are. Find out how those beady little eyes live on in John Martin's mind many years after he was marooned on a desert island. Or find out how Beethoven made a kerfuffle refuffle. He even tells a bedtime story for losing weight.

''A terrific resource for freeing your mind to create and produce!'' -D.G. Wild DO YOU: Overthink and procrastinate? Hold onto regrets about the past? See the negative side first? Worry about what others think? Want to be more creative and productive? Want to be more patient with yourself and others? In his latest book, author John Martin offers an up-close, powerful exploration of how your perspective influences your success. Choose Your Perspective is an instructive system for revealing the unique nature of your thoughts and unlocking the proven truth about using intentional thinking to:Leave the past behind Create mental habits that enhance a positive perspectiveSee opportunity in chaosDevelop an active awareness of your thinkingFree your mind from the criticism of othersOvercome distractionAnd much more!

For eight months in 1970, Captain John Martin served his country in the U.S. Army in South Vietnam. On a typical day, his job was to find and kill Vietnamese. The next day he might try to save the same Vietnamese with medicine or with hammers and nails. At night, inside the wire, the enemy had a different face—drunks, drug addicts, assassins and spies.Yet the “little war” John battled for decades at home was even more dangerous, destructive and difficult to understand than the one he'd left behind in Vietnam.Even today, countless lives are lost to wars that many veterans fight alone—little wars that begin when tours of duty end. This is the candid story of John’s two wars and the people who helped him survive.

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 Alcalá. 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.