Books with author John Sartin

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.

With beautiful illustrations and step-by-step instructions this how-to book includes all the techniques involved in crafting metal jewelry including -Cutting and filing -Cold connections -Soldering -Texturing -Forging and forming -Setting stones -Applying specialty finishes The books clear organization provides easy access to information with straightforward directions and hundreds of full-color photos Youll also find easy projects for trying the techniques as well as a stunning gallery of metal jewelry pieces by experienced designers Find beautiful jewelry examples and gain skills and inspiration with The Complete Photo Guide to Making Metal Jewelry

With beautiful illustrations and step-by-step instructions, this how-to book includes all the techniques involved in crafting metal jewelry, including:—Cutting and filing—Cold connections—Soldering—Texturing—Forging and forming—Setting stones—Applying specialty finishesThe book’s clear organization provides easy access to information with straightforward directions andhundreds offull-color photos. You’ll also find easy projects for trying the techniques, as well as a stunning gallery of metal jewelry pieces by experienced designers. Find beautiful jewelry examples and gain skills and inspiration with The Complete Photo Guide to Making Metal Jewelry!

''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.

When 12 year old Tommy Tiller is told he and his family are leaving behind their comfortable Chicago lifestyle for an indefinitely long voyage at sea, he is shocked. Expecting nothing but monotonous days stuck with his annoyingly precocious sister Caroline, Tommy reluctantly sails away into Lake Michigan bound for the Atlantic Ocean on a 46 foot Sloop. He soon discovers, though, that often the most exciting parts of life come with the uncharted territories of the world at large, and that sometimes the greatest lessons come from simple moments with the ones who love us most. A charming tale of self-discovery, open water and a dog that finds his forever home with a boy on a boat called Imagine, "The Sailing Adventures of Tommy Tiller" is bound to captivate the hearts of curious adventurers of all ages.This is a Sailing Adventure Story told through the eyes of twelve year old Tommy. It's about family, love, and about sailing. It is not only a children's book but also one enjoyed by all ages

When 12 year old Tommy Tiller is told he and his family are leaving behind their comfortable Chicago lifestyle for an indefinitely long voyage at sea, he is shocked. Expecting nothing but monotonous days stuck with his annoyingly precocious sister Caroline, Tommy reluctantly sails away into Lake Michigan bound for the Atlantic Ocean on a 46 foot Sloop. He soon discovers, though, that often the most exciting parts of life come with the uncharted territories of the world at large, and that sometimes the greatest lessons come from simple moments with the ones who love us most. A charming tale of self-discovery, open water and a dog that finds his forever home with a boy on a boat called Imagine, “The Sailing Adventures of Tommy Tiller” is bound to captivate the hearts of curious adventurers of all ages.

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.