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Sure, you could spend $100,000 on a law degree from Harvard or Yale. But then you’d have to deal with crowded classrooms, inconvenient course schedules, and rigorous academic study.

Fortunately, the brilliant minds of mental_floss magazine are proud to offer an alternative: Law School in a Box. This prestigious boxed university offers a complete legal education for just $14.95. Your program includes:

    * Law School in 96 Pages: Your Comprehensive Textbook
    * 10 Heroes of the Courtroom Trading Cards
    * 10 “You Be the Judge” Cards
    * A devilishly complicated legal-trivia bar exam
    * A rolled diploma with real Latin words

It’s the perfect gift for lawyers and would-be lawyers of all ages, from the highest-ranked boxed law school in the country!

Available at newsstands everywhere, MENTAL_FLOSS MAGAZINE was founded in 2001 with the mission of blurring the lines between education and entertainment. The editors are responsible for the best-selling books Condensed Knowledge and Forbidden Knowledge.

So you’re thinking about med school-but you’re not ready to devote the next ten years to grad school. Or perhaps you’re already a medical doctor and just want a quick refresher course. Either way, the brilliant minds at mental_floss magazine are happy to help. Med School in a Box offers instruction in anatomy, physiology, neurosurgery, and other impressive-sounding subjects for the wildly low price of $14.95. Your program includes:

    * Med School in 96 Pages: Your Comprehensive Textbook
    * 10 Heroes of Medicine Trading Cards
    * 10 Extra-Credit Study Cards
    * A devilishly complicated medical-trivia board exam
    * A rolled diploma with real Latin words

It’s the perfect gift for doctors and would-be doctors of all ages, from the highest-ranked boxed medical school in the country!

Available at newsstands everywhere, MENTAL_FLOSS MAGAZINE was founded in 2001 with the mission of blurring the lines between education and entertainment. The editors are responsible for the bestselling books Condensed Knowledge and Forbidden Knowledge.

With Law School in a Box and Med School in a Box, Quirk Books and mental_floss magazine brought affordable postgraduate education to some 50,000 eager students. Now the world’s #1 boxed university is expanding its curriculum to include MBA Degree in a Box, an advanced course in business education for the low price of $14.95. Your study materials include:

– Business School in 96 Pages: Your Comprehensive Textbook
– 10 Heroes of the Boardroom Trading Cards
– 10 CEO Case Study Cards
– A fiendishly complicated business-trivia final exam
– A rolled diploma with real Latin words

Packed with entertaining trivia about Henry Ford, Donald Trump, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and more, MBA Degree in a Box is the perfect gift for businesspeople of all ages — from the highest-ranked boxed business school in the world!

Available at newsstands everywhere, MENTAL_FLOSS MAGAZINE was founded in 2001 with the mission of blurring the line between education and entertainment. The editors are responsible for numerous best-selling books, including Condensed Knowledge and Forbidden Knowledge.

All the world’s a stage-and with this extraordinary book-plus kit, you can dramatize the most memorable scenes in all of theatre. Contents include:

    * Sixty fingerpuppet cards featuring Shakespeare’s most famous characters, including Hamlet, Lady Macbeth, King Lear, Othello, Shylock, and Falstaff

    * Twelve stand-up sets of castles, forests, balconies, and battle fields

    * A 96-page “folio” of classic scenes-from Hamlet’s “To Be or Not to Be” soliloquy to Romeo and Juliet’s classic balcony serenade

Once you’ve finished staging the Bard’s entire canon, you can mix and match masterpuppets to produce your own Shakespearean mash-ups. Perhaps your Romeo will fall in love with Lady Macbeth!

MIKE ROGALSKI owns and operates EYEWASH, a graphics studio in the Philadelphia suburbs. This is his first collaboration with William Shakespeare.

This pocket-sized gift book is packed with hilarious jokes every guy needs in his repertoire.

This little black book has everything aspiring cut-ups, comedians, and reformed class clowns need to win at comedy. Covering everything from roasts and toasts to historical footnotes to alternate versions of beloved old chestnuts, this indispensable reference is great for any occasion. Plus tips on telling jokes and much, much more:

• Nine Jokes about Heaven and Hell
• Eight Jokes Just for Kids
• Nineteen Jokes Definitely Not for Kids
• Six Jokes about Lightbulbs
• Seven Jokes about Bars
• The World’s Only Funny Knock-Knock Joke

Here’s a gift any man would be proud to receive, even if he doesn’t actually need it. (Frankly, it’s enough for someone to think he needs it.) This hilarious self-help parody is full of compassionate advice for men afflicted with Oversized Male Genitalia (OMG).

Far too often, these men are banished to the fringes of society, victims of their own freakish length and girth. But Dr. Richard Jacob and Rev. Owen Thomas bring a message of tolerance and hope, along with hilarious advice on “coming out” to your family, sharing your assets with a partner, and avoiding injury in the workplace. Complete with a daily affirmations journal and inspiring quotes from leading self-help experts, How to Live with a Huge Penis will send an uplifting message to men around the world.

Dr. Richard Jacob and Rev. Owen Thomas write and lecture extensively on the perils of living with OMG. Watch their public service announcement.