The book covers the science behind height, including how growth hormones work and how genetics can influence height. It also explores the role of nutrition, the importance of exercise and sleep, the impact of posture and lifestyle factors, and the myths and misconceptions surrounding height. In the final chapter, the book summarizes the key points covered throughout the book and provides actionable steps that readers can take to start growing taller, such as focusing on good nutrition, get...

Christopher Deeming and Paul Smyth together with internationally renowned contributors propose that the merging of the ‘social investment’ and ‘inclusive growth and development’ agendas is forging an unprecedented global social policy framework. The book shows how these key ideas together with the environmental imperative of ‘sustainability’ are shaping a new global development agenda.This framework opens the way to a truly global social policy discipline making it essential readin...

Educational opportunities for disabled children remain a vital contemporary issue in British social policy. This new edition of the milestone book Education, Disability and Social Policy outlines critical debates in education concerning the position and experiences of disabled children and young people within a contemporary policy context.Incorporating new voices from leading thinkers, this second edition includes a fresh introduction and updates to key chapters, including whether ...

Times of the Technoculture explores the social and cultural impact of new technologies, tracing the origins of the information society from the coming of the machine with the industrial revolution to the development of mass production techniques in the early twentieth century.The authors look at how the military has controlled the development of the information society, and consider the centrality of education in government attempts to create a knowledge society. Engaging i...