Size matters : how height affects the health, happiness, and success of boys--and the men they become

Size matters : how height affects the health, happiness, and success of boys--and the men they become /

With a bracing mix of fresh research, incisive reportage, and personal candor, Size Matters uncovers the causes and effects of societyʼs bias against shortness and reveals how short people can and do thrive in spite of this insidious bigotry. Drawing on his own childhood experience (he was short...

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Main Author: Hall, Stephen S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006.
Subjects:
Stature, Short > Psychological aspects.
Stature, Short > Social aspects.
Human growth.
Body image in men.
Body image.
Puberty.
Stature, Short.
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Table of Contents:
  • "Chunky"
  • "Longitude" and "pondus absolutum"
  • A brief interruption for a bicycle accident
  • The invention of childhood
  • The bully inside me
  • Runts, sneaks, and dominators
  • "To grow hairy"
  • Belittled
  • The Prussian curse
  • Timing is everything
  • "Man in his perfection"
  • The emperor's new medicine cabinet
  • College and beyond
  • The tallest people on earth
  • Final height.

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