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46 Books Found
These Days of Large Things: The Culture of Size in America, 1865-1930
by Michael Tavel Clarke
Hardcover
(31 August 2007)
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Growth Disorders
by C. Kelnar, M. Savage, P. Saenger, C. Cowell
Hardcover
(2 August 2007)
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Human Body Size and the Laws of Scaling: Physiological, Performance, Growth, Longevity and Ecological Ramifications
by Thomas Samaras(Editor)
Hardcover - 381 pages
(6 January 2007)
List Price: $89.00
Sales Rank: 1,728,455
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Comments: This is a technical book that will best be appreciated by readers with math or science backgrounds.

Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Surgery
by S. Robert Rozbruch(Editor), Svetlana Ilizarov(Editor)
Hardcover - 696 pages
1 edition
(25 October 2006)
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Sales Rank: 826,452
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Dwarfism: Medical and Psychosocial Aspects of Profound Short Stature
by Betty M. Adelson, Judith G. Hall(Foreword)
Paperback
(27 June 2005)
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The Psychological Outcome of Constitutional Delay of Growth And Puberty: The Psychosocial Outcome of Male Maturational Delay Short Stature (Hormone Research)
by E. J. Mobbs
Paperback
(10 June 2005)
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Sales Rank: 4,188,869
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Dwarfism - A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References
by Health Publica Icon Health Publications
Paperback
(5 January 2004)
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Sales Rank: 3,687,572
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Human Growth Hormone: Research and Clinical Practice (Contemporary Endocrinology) (Contemporary Endocrinology)
by Roy G. Smith(Editor), Michael O. Thorner(Editor)
Hardcover - 348 pages
1st edition
(15 February 2000)
List Price: $115.00
Sales Rank: 1,758,091
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Growth, Stature, and Psychosocial Well-Being
by Urs Eiholzer(Editor), Fritz Haverkamp(Editor), Linda D. Voss(Editor)
Hardcover
(March 1999)
List Price: $46.00
Sales Rank: 3,170,996
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Challenges in Growth Hormone Therapy
by John P. Monson(Editor)
Hardcover - 305 pages
1st edition
(15 January 1999)
List Price: $152.95
Sales Rank: 4,036,219
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Psychological Development in Children of Short Stature
by Ann Erling
Paperback
(1999)
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Growth and Development
by James Tanner(Foreword), Stanley J. Ulijaszek(Editor), Francis E. Johnston(Editor), Michael A. Preece(Editor)
Hardcover - 497 pages
1st edition
(15 June 1998)
List Price: $190.00
Sales Rank: 1,109,697
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Practical Bone Growth
by James W. Prichett
Hardcover
(September 1997)
List Price: $35.00
Sales Rank: 1,529,865
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Height Census and Its Uses : Technical Report
by UNICEF(Other Contributor)
Paperback - 150 pages
1st ed.
(January 1997)
List Price: $8.00
Sales Rank: 6,540,878
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Growth Standards, Bone Maturation and Idiopathic Short Stature (Journal - Hormone Research , Vol 45, Suppl. 2)
by M. B. Ranke(Editor), G. Gilli(Editor)
Paperback - 68 pages
(April 1996)
List Price: $28.00
Sales Rank: 6,251,054
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Human Growth Hormone Pharmacology: Basic and CLinical Aspects (Pharmacology and Toxicology)
by Kathleen T. Shiverick(Editor), Arlan(Editor)
Hardcover - 175 pages
1st edition
(9 May 1995)
Sales Rank: 3,001,873
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The Truth About Your Height : Exploring the Myths and Realities of Human Size and It's Effects on Performance, Health, Pollution, and Survival
by Thomas T. Samaras
Paperback
318
(March 1994)
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Childhood class, body height, and adult health: Studies on the relationship between childhood social class, adult height, and illness and mortality in adulthood (Swedish Institute for Social Research)
by Maria Nystrom Peck
(1994)
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Growth, stature, and adaptation: Behavioral, social, and cognitive aspects of growth delay
by Brian Stabler
(1994)
Sales Rank: 6,166,943
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Early Visual Development: Normal and Abnormal
by Kurt Simons(Editor), the Committee on Vision of the National Research Council(Editor)
Hardcover - 581 pages
1st ed.
(21 October 1993)
List Price: $155.00
Sales Rank: 2,027,513
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Lessons from Laron Syndrome (Pediatr)
by Zvi Laron, Petah Tikva, John S. Parks(Editor)
Hardcover - 368 pages
(April 1993)
List Price: $296.00
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Understanding Growth Hormone: New Discoveries to Help Very Short Children...Are They Also a Fountain of Youth?
by Neil B. Shulman, Letitia Sweitzer
Hardcover - 300 pages
(January 1993)
List Price: $19.95
Sales Rank: 3,101,463
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The Kaspar Hauser Syndrome of 'Psychosocial Dwarfism': Deficient Statural, Intellectual, and Social Growth Induced by Child Abuse
by John Money
Hardcover - 290 pages
(July 1992)
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Sales Rank: 1,872,062
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Growth, short stature, and the use of growth hormone: Considerations for the practicing pediatrician (Current problems in pediatrics)
by Jerome A Grant
(1992)
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Eating and Growth Disorders in Infants and Children (Developmental Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry)
by Joseph L. Woolston
Hardcover
(26 September 1991)
List Price: $118.00
Sales Rank: 3,569,899
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Worldwide Variation in Human Growth (Cambridge Studies in Biological & Evolutionary Anthropology)
by Phyllis B. Eveleth, James M. Tanner
Paperback
2nd edition
(25 January 1991)
List Price: $44.99
Sales Rank: 1,637,559
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Height, Health and History: Nutritional Status in the United Kingdom, 1750-1980 (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time)
by Roderick Floud, Kenneth Wachter, Annabel Gregory
Hardcover - 404 pages
(26 October 1990)
List Price: $140.00
Sales Rank: 3,476,134
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An anthropological study of bodily height of Indian population
by Mahadeb P Basu
(1990)
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Vectors As Tools for the Study of Normal and Abnormal Growth and Differentiation (Nato a S I Series Series H, Cell Biology)
by Germany) NATO Advanced Research Workshop on 'Vectors for Transfer and Expression of Genes' (1988 : Wilsede, Rudolf Derni
Hardcover - 475 pages
(December 1989)
List Price: $207.00
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Disorders of Human Growth: Advances in Research and Treatment
by Gilman Grave, Fernando G. Cassorla(Editor)
Hardcover
(January 1989)
List Price: $52.75
Sales Rank: 6,875,493
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Human Achondroplasia: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Basic Life Sciences) (Vol 48)
by Benedetto Nicoletti(Editor), Elio Ascani(Editor), Victor A. McKusick(Editor), Shona C. Dryburgh(Editor)
Hardcover
(31 January 1988)
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Sales Rank: 3,926,465
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The Development of the Infant and Young Child: Normal and Abnormal
by Ronald Stanley Illingworth
Hardcover - 364 pages
9th ed.
(July 1987)
List Price: $75.00
Sales Rank: 379,953
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Clinical Use of Growth Hormone: Present and Future Aspects (Pediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology)
by Zvi Laron, Petah Tikva(Editor)
Hardcover
(June 1987)
List Price: $160.00
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Stature and Stigma: The Biopsychosocial Development of Short Males
by Leslie F. Martel, Henry B. Biller
Hardcover
(February 1987)
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Sales Rank: 3,167,943
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Determination of heights and height changes: Contributions to the Symposium on Height Determination and Recent Vertical Crustal Movements in Western Europe ... of Hannover, September 15-19, 1986
Perfect Paperback
(1987)
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Dixon Normal and Abnormal Bone Growth - Basic an D Clinical Research
by AD DIXON
Hardcover - 540 pages
(23 October 1985)
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Assessment of Skeletal Maturity and Prediction of Adult Height (Tw2 Method)
by J. M. Tanner(Editor)
Hardcover - 106 pages
2nd ed.
(December 1983)
List Price: $136.00
Sales Rank: 7,052,930
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Height and weight of adults, ages 18-74 years, by socioeconomic and geographic variables, United States, 1971-74 (Vital and health statistics)
by Robinson Fulwood
(1981)
Sales Rank: 7,105,174
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Dwarfism and social identity: Self-help group participation
by Joan Ablon
(1981)
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Weight and height of adults 18-74 years of age, United States, 1971-74 (DHEW publication ; no)
by Sidney Abraham
(1979)
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An approach to the evaluation of short stature and abnormal growth
by Gerald F Powell
(1977)
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Growth Hormone Deficiency in Childhood (Monographs in Paediatrics)
by E.E. Joss(Editor)
Paperback - 100 pages
(1 January 1975)
Sales Rank: 4,433,083
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Predicting Adult Stature for Individuals (Monographs in Paediatrics)
by Alex F. Roche
Hardcover - 114 pages
(January 1975)
Sales Rank: 4,412,082
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Isolated human growth hormone deficiency and related disorders,
by Thomas J Merimee
(1974)
Sales Rank: 7,024,103
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Disproportionate short stature;: Diagnosis and management
by Joseph Alexander Bailey
(1973)
Sales Rank: 5,297,094
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Short stature and height increase
by C. J Gerling
(1939)
Sales Rank: 5,252,264
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