Stymied and stumped by arguments that wrap around you like web of mystification? The Amazing Dr. Ransom's Bestiary of Adorable Fallacies is here to help! This "Field Guide for Clear Thinkers" is filled with illustrations, descriptions, exercises, and analysis to help you identify and avoid fallacies you might encounter in everyday life. Describing fifty informal fallacies organized by context--fallacies of distraction, ambiguity, form, and "millennial fallacies"--each is described as a (adorable yet venomous) creature one might encounter in the wild, complete with illustration and fantastical description. This book is perfect for supplementing any high school or college logic curriculum or as an independent read for adults who want to learn more about logic! Each fallacy is followed by discussion questions and exercises; a line-listed answer key and both one and two-semester schedules are included in the back of the book. The Amazing Dr. Ransom’s Bestiary of Adorable Fallacies is a Christian philosophy book filled with illustrations, descriptions, exercises, and analysis designed to help you identify and avoid fallacies encountered in everyday life. This modern philosophy field guide for clear thinkers introduces 50 informal logical fallacies carefully grouped into distinct families – fallacies of distraction, ambiguity, form, and "millennial fallacies" – and organized by context making it ideal for those who are lost by the complexity of an argument. These logic books offer a creative description of each fallacy through adorable yet venomous illustrations of creatures you encounter in the wild. These depictions are presented with a name, nickname, and a sketch of their adorable, harmless form and their true feral form. This helps the readers understand how a seemingly harmless logical fallacy can potentially take a dangerous turn. These homeschooling books are perfect for high school or college students and independent readers alike. "I sat down last night with a logic textbook [ Adorable Fallacies ] prepared by Canon Press--never had I found a subject more artfully and naturally approached.... It's a bit forbidding for me to be before an audience that understands rhetorical tropes, logical fallacies, and so on, because I depend on them to make my points...." --~Walter Kirn, author of Up in the Air and Blood Will Out "While I review the book as one that should be used by teens, I suspect that many adults will enjoy the book as much or more than teens. Those who might have been introduced to logical fallacies through some other course are unlikely to have encountered all of those covered here, and they certainly will not have learned about the bestiary that accompanies them. Even if Dr. Ransom is reviewing some previously-learned concepts, his unique storytelling talents should prove greatly entertaining." --~Cathy Duffy, Homeschool Materials Reviewer "With its whimsical drawings and far-fetched narrative, I felt as if I were flipping through a copy of J.K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them rather than a catalog of logical fallacies." "If you are looking for a good logic curriculum for your child, I would recommend this one, and while you are at it, this is a great refresher for us parents and teachers out there!" "We've giggled our way through our older group evening read-aloud time with The Bestiary , laughing at the over-the-top examples, but finding more than adequate fodder in society and history to keep a passionate discussion going for well over an hour." --~Homeschooling Moms Douglas Wilson is a Senior Fellow at New Saint Andrews College and pastor of Christ Church, both in Moscow, Idaho, and is the author of numerous books, including Introductory Logic , with Jim Nance. He and his wife Nancy have three children and oodles of grandchildren. N.D. Wilson is a Young Adult Fiction writer and has written series such as 100 Cupboards , The Ashtown Burials , and Outlaws of Time . He enjoys high winds, milk, and night-time. He received his Masters degree from Saint John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, and is also a Fellow of Literature at New Saint Andrews College. His writing has appeared in Books & Culture, The Chattahoochee Review, and Esquire