Praise for Two Weeks in the Midday Sun -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Foreword by Martin Scorsese -- Dedication -- Two Weeks in the Midday Sun: A Cannes Notebook -- Postscript, 1997: Scorsese Goes to Dinner

The Sun is the brightest and most accessible object in the sky, and it has much to offer the amateur astronom er with modest equipment. On most days it shows sunspots and other features that displaya wealth of fine detail and change their appearance strikingly from day to day. But observing the Sun can be dangerous. NEVER look at the Sun through a telescope or other optical aid, even for a brief instant. The Sun's intense radiation, amplified and focused by a telescope, will almost certainly cause eye injury and could weIl lead to complete blindness. Do not attempt any solar observing until you have read and understood the safety precautions and observing advice set out in Chapter 2 of this book - even if you think you have the correct equipment. Be especially wary about using filters to observe the Sun. If you have a filter that makes the Sun look dark, it is not necessarily safe, as it is largely the Sun's invisible radiation that is harmful to the eye. But provided you use the correct techniques, such as projecting the solar image onto a screen or using a specially designed, quality solar filter that fits over the telescope aperture, it is quite easy to observe the Sun safely.

A 1986 examination of the foundation upon which Cervantes constructed his works from La Galatea (1585) to Persiles y Sigismunda (1617).

(PAPERBACK EDITION) A girl experiences a tumultuous childhood, marked by her parent's bitter divorce and her stepmother's alcohol and drug abuse which also translated into emotional abuse and physical neglect. At a young age, Melissa learned how to drive a tractor and train a horse on her father's buffalo ranch, and in the alternate world inhabited by her mother's family, was expected to maintain intelligent conversation and proper table manners at fancy formal dinners. In The Valley delves into the dual life experienced by many children whose lives are splintered by divorce, with Melissa's personal accounts about growing up in California's historic San Pasqual Valley, breaking away from her stepmother's hold and reconciling the internal and personal conflicts that marked most of her younger years as well as the decision that nearly ends the relationship with her father and an apology almost a decade overdue.