How can I use the UNIX ls command to display sizes of folder contents?

Hello,
Say I run the command ls -lohS in terminal on my Home directory...
Mac-Pro:~ mike$ ls -lohS
total 0
drwx------+ 57 mike   1.9K Aug 31 16:52 Library
drwx------+ 32 mike   1.1K Sep 14 16:58 Desktop
drwx------+ 13 mike   442B Sep  9 18:25 Pictures
drwx------+ 12 mike   408B Sep  9 18:25 Documents
drwx------+  8 mike   272B Sep  9 18:25 Downloads
drwx------+  5 mike   170B Sep  9 18:25 Movies
drwx------+  5 mike   170B Sep  9 18:25 Music
drwxr-xr-x+  5 mike   170B Sep  9 18:25 Public
drwxr-xr-x+  5 mike   170B Sep  9 18:25 Sites
drwxr-xr-x   2 mike    68B Dec  3  2010 Applications
I don't know what that size column shows for folders, but it's certainly not the size of the contents of the folder. How can I display this list, but with the sizes of the entire contents of each folder, including all of its subfolders?
Basically, I need the Terminal equivalent of opening my Home folder in Finder, Clicking Show View Options, clicking Calculate All Sizes, and then sorting the Size column descending.
Thanks for any help you can give!
-Mike

du
See man page for options.
For example:
     du -hd1 ~
     du -kd1 ~

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