Tell Me, Grandmother
Traditions, Stories, and Cultures of Arapaho People
City of Life, City of Death
Memories of Riga
Michelson had a serene boyhood in an upper middle-class Jewish family in Riga, Latvia--at least until 1940, when the fifteen-year old Michelson witnessed the annexation of Latvia by the Soviet Union. Private properties were nationalized, and Stalin's terror spread to Soviet Latvia. Soon after, Michelson's family was torn apart by the 1941 Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. He quickly lost his entire family, while witnessing the unspeakable brutalities of war and genocide.
Michelson's memoir is an ode to his lost family; it is the speech of their muted voices and a thank you for their love. Although badly scarred by his experiences, like many other survivors he was able to rebuild his life and gain a new sense of what it means to be alive.
His experiences will be of interest to scholars of both the Holocaust and Eastern European history, as well as the general reader.
Life's a Dream (La Vida es Sueño)
The Coronado Expedition to Tierra Nueva
The 1540-1542 Route across the Southwest
Yellowcake Towns
Uranium Mining Communities in the American West
Bats of the Rocky Mountain West
Natural History, Ecology, and Conservation
Ancient Piñon-Juniper Woodlands
A Natural History of Mesa Verde Country
Sites of Insight
A Guide to Colorado Sacred Places
From Yorktown to Valmy
The Transformation of the French Army in an Age of Revolution
Hiking Circuits in Rocky Mountain National Park
Reversing the Lens
Ethnicity, Race, Gender, and Sexuality through Film
Silver Saga
The Story of Caribou, Colorado, Revised Edition
Mesa Verde National Park
Shadows of the Centuries, Revised Edition
From Imperial Myth to Democracy
Japan's Two Constitutions, 1889-2002
Empires of Time
Calendars, Clocks, and Cultures, Revised Edition
"Aveni . . . explores the interplay of culture and time in this edifying and readable cross-cultural study of timekeeping through the ages."
—The Sciences