In this age of intense political conflict, we sense objective fact is growing less important. Experts are attacked as partisan, statistics and scientific findings are decried as propaganda, and public debate devolves into personal assaults. How did we get here, and what can we do about it? In this sweeping and provocative work, political economist William Davies draws on a four-hundred-year history of ideas to reframe our understanding of the contemporary...

"A rhyming story in which a mysterious animal narrator challenges readers to figure out its identity by explaining which kinds of animal it is not"--

Whose flat tail is this? A beaver's flat tail, of course! Little ones will love to see the close-up photography and try to guess which animal the spikey, curly, or pointy tail belongs to.

From Tunnel Tube to Party Play Dough, Bumper Ball to Hoop-Dee-Do, here are more than 150 screen-free games and activities to help kids enjoy the wholesome, old-fashioned experience of playing creatively and freely...without technology. There are outdoor games and indoor games, games to play solo and games to play with others, crafts, songs, guessing games, puppet ideas, playdate and party favorites--even instant activities to do at the kitchen table...

"Mrs. Plumpert's prized pot pie has gone missing and it's now a chicken chase to crack the case! Move around the board to gather clues and then use the special evidence scanner to rule out suspects. You'll have to work together quickly because the guilty fox is high-tailing it towards the exit! Will you halt the hungry hooligan before it flies the coop ... or will you be Outfoxed?"--Container.

Can you find the hidden creatures? Playing hide-and seek can be a blast, but for animals it isn't a game. It's a matter of life and death. Some animals need to hide from predators who want to eat them. Predators don't want their meals to get away before they can catch them. Each of them uses what is called camouflage, the ability to change its body color and sometimes shape, to fit in with its surrounding so that it cannot be easily detected....

"In this asymmetric cooperative game, one player adopts the role of the ghost and the others play as psychics. All players share the same goal of shedding light on the strange circumstances surrounding the ghost's death and laying his spirit to rest at last. Unable to speak, the ghost attempts to communicate by sending visions to the gathered psychics, who will be ble to reconstruct the events of the fateful evening by correctly interpreting these...

Where will your muse guide you? Lead your teammates to inspiration using cryptic clues and surreal imagery in Muse, a beautiful party game with over one hundred fully-illustrated cards. Play cooperatively at lower player counts, or divide into teams for competitive play with four or more at the table - the game is played the same either way! As a muse, you need to be creative to give the right clue within the constraints of the inspiration card you've...

n Word Slam, two teams each have a storyteller. The two storytellers are given the same answer term. Playing at the same time, they must give clues to their teams so the teams can correctly guess the answer. And they must do this quickly, because they are racing the timer and each other. But it's not that easy. Speaking and acting is absolutely forbidden for the storytellers! They must tell their stories using only 105 cards, each with one word on...

Spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents. Their teammates know the agents only by their codenames. Spymasters take turns giving one-word clues. A clue may relate to multiple words on the table. The field operatives try to guess which words their spymaster meant. When a field operative touches a word, the spymaster reveals its secret identity. If the field operatives guess correctly, they may continue guessing, until they run out of ideas...