"The forces that be have done their very best to suppress this essential book, because they don't want anyone to be able to deny that sexual relations between someone over 21 with someone under 18 ever fail to cause trauma. Ironically, the so-called LGBT are the quickest to condemn all homosexual sex with younger males. But the inspired founder of the modern American homophile movement, Harry Hay, declared that the elders "have an ethical obligation to be there when the younger males reach out for erotic connection in order to resist hetero dominance and repression and to avoid developing self-loathing." The late Dutch authority, Dr. Frits Barnard, once called Bruce Rind's groundbreaking 1998 meta-analysis "the bomb under the sex abuse industry." Read his new much more broadly based synthesis and judge for yourself whether it drives a stake through the heart of the trauma myth." --William A. Percy, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Massachusetts, Boston "Children lack adult maturity, and for that reason, society has an obligation to protect them from potential harm. Rightfully, in contemporary American society, minors below a certain age are not permitted to purchase cigarettes or alcohol, to be employed fulltime, or to engage in sexual activities with adults. That said, research to trace the historical roots of beliefs about childhood sexuality, and to study the impact that specific sexual acts may have upon a child can still be informative. For example, without condoning such behavior, what better news could the parents of a youngster receive than to learn of research documenting that although their child's trust may have been improperly violated, he or she may not have been permanently harmed? To the extent that this text can contribute to a meaningful discussion and assessment of such issues, it can serve a useful purpose." --Fred S. Berlin, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Director of the National Institute for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma "In this short work, sociology professor Barthel-Bouchier (Stony Brook Univ.) critically explores the sustainability commitments of the "global heritage community." The author begins by providing a short introduction to the concept and evolving scope of heritage and its association with "cosmopolitan memory." Following a chapter on the idea of heritage as a human right, Barthel-Bouchier delves into the rise of the sustainability script within the cultural heritage sector and the attractiveness of this theme for heritage professionals and managers. The author subsequently addresses recent international meetings dealing with environmental threats to cultural heritage, as well as national mitigation and adaptation strategies to safeguard vulnerable heritage sites. Together, these three chapters set up the theoretical context for the sections that follow: climate change, rising waters, and threatened global cities and historic towns; desertification, deforestation, and polar melting and the loss of cultural landscapes; conflicts between heritage conservation and energy infrastructure development; and the contradiction between sustainability discourse (and the task of conserving heritage) and cultural tourism promotion. This well-referenced, provocative book has rich endnotes for each chapter, an extensive bibliography, and an efficient index. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty."-CHOICE
