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Wheats intriguing interpretation of Pullmans work is the first to point out the many allegorical features of the His Dark Materials trilogy and to highlight the ingenious ways in which Pullman subtly attacks religious institutions and superstitions.

For over fifty years, Hegel interpreters have rejected the former belief that Hegel used thesis-antithesis-synthesis dialectics. In this incisive analysis of Hegel's philosophy, Leonard F. Wheat shows that the modern interpretation is false. Wheat rigorously demonstrates that there are in fact thirty-eight well-concealed dialectics in Hegel's two most important works--twenty-eight in Phenomenology of Spirit and ten in The Philosophy of History...

This text provides an analysis of state per-capita income change since 1950. It refutes theories that attribute post-1950 state per-capita income convergence to neo-classical adjustment mechanisms, institutional sclerosis and southern industrialisation.

Three allegories--an Odysseus (Homer) allegory, a man-machine symbiosis (Arthur Clarke) allegory, and a Zarathustra (Nietzsche) allegory--are simultaneously concealed and revealed by well over 200 highly imaginative and sometimes devilishly clever symbols. In bringing Kubrick's secrets to light, Wheat builds a powerful case for his assertion that 2001 is the "grandest motion picture ever filmed.