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  • Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It

    Wisdom of the Great Philosophers on How to Live

    by Daniel Klein ...
    A humorous and philosophical trip through life, from the New York Times–bestselling coauthor of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .Daniel Klein’s fans have fallen in love with the warm, humorous, and thoughtful way he shows how philosophy resonates in everyday life. Readers of his popular books Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . and Travels with Epicurus come for enlightenment and ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $9.99 USD

  • Travels with Epicurus

    A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life

    by Daniel Klein ...
    Advice on achieving a fulfilling old age from one of the bestselling authors of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .After being advised by his dentist to get tooth implants, Daniel Klein decides to stick with his dentures and instead use the money to make a trip to the Greek island Hydra and discover the secrets of aging happily. Drawing on the inspiring lives of his Greek friends and ... Read more

    Was $8.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • Schmegoogle

    by Daniel Klein ...
    Schmegoogle: n. : a person so insignificant that if you Google his name, nothing comes up.Schmegoogle: Yiddish Words for Modern Times is a hilariously useful lexicon of neologisms that capture the flavor of life as we live it today.This clever book introduces more than 200 new terms rooted in real Yiddish, accompanied funny use-it-in-a-sentence examples and entertaining etymology.•... ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Viva Las Vengeance

    An Elvis Mystery

    by Daniel Klein ...
    Series Book 3 - The Elvis Mysteries
    "It doesn't seem likely that a man would murder his wife and then just crawl back into bed and go to sleep, does it?"Elvis Presley is in Las Vegas for a little R&R before starting his next picture, Roustabout. But the King's work is never done. Before long, Elvis finds himself up to his neck in the hunt for a killer.A tourist turns up ritualistically murdered at one of Las Vegas's preeminent ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Worlds Unfolding

    Science on the Page

    A breathtaking visual history of humanity’s quest for knowledge, from the dawn of print to the Space AgeHumans are seekers, forever striving to make sense of the multiple worlds in which they live: the skies above, the depths below, earthbound environments, and the body itself. Worlds Unfolding explores this insatiable drive through The Huntington Library’s extraordinary collections in science, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Kill Me Tender

    An Elvis Mystery

    by Daniel Klein ...
    Series Book 1 - The Elvis Mysteries
    Billy had said the word "murder". Worse, he'd said "serial murder". This was definitely not a game anymore.Back from his tour of duty in Germany-and desperately missing his Momma-Elvis Aron Presley just isn't turned on by the music the way he used to be. Between his Machiavellian manager, the hangers-on and childhood pals crowding his Graceland mansion, and his own propensity for fried peanut ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Macho Meditations

    An uproariously funny daily inspirational guide for manly men. Ralph and Reggie—two regular, blue-collar buds from Boston—offer one-a-day mcnuggets of affirmation, inspiration, manly wisdom and earth-shaking epiphanies from the end of the bar on the inner issues that truly matter—everything from sex to sports to sex to imported vs. domestic to sex to the meaning of life. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Blue Suede Clues

    An Elvis Mystery

    by Daniel Klein ...
    Series Book 2 - The Elvis Mysteries
    The McDougal homicide and the trial that followed never made it into a single newspaper east of the Rockies. Holly McDougal was, after all, just a bit player murdered by a nobody.Elvis Presley has just completed filming Kissin' Cousins, his romance with Ann-Margret has become public knowledge, and Priscilla is on the warpath. Against this backdrop, one "Squirm" Littlejon, an old army friend, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Such Vicious Minds

    An Elvis Mystery

    by Daniel Klein ...
    Series Book 4 - The Elvis Mysteries
    Murdering a man is a whole lot cheaper than paying him twenty grand.It's Memphis, 1965. Elvis passes his evenings at the movie-house, endlessly watching Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove. His friends and hangers-on are starting to worry-and so is his famously hucksterish manager, Colonel Tom Parker.Things only get worse when the King finds out that someone has been disguising himself as Elvis in ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Knowledge and Coordination

    A Liberal Interpretation

    Adam Smith and Friedrich Hayek saw the liberty principle as focal and accorded it strong presumption, but their wisdom invokes how little we can know. In Knowledge and Coordination, Daniel Klein re-examines the elements of economic liberalism. He interprets Hayek's notion of spontaneous order from the aestheticized perspective of a Smithian spectator, real or imagined. Klein addresses issues ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar...

    Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes

    This New York Times bestseller with a recently refreshed look is the hilarious, insightful philosophy course everyone wishes they'd had in school"[Cathcart and Klein] know their stuff and wear their learnedness lightly, and Plato and a Platypus is a pleasure to read . . . I can't help but love this book, and I have been quoting liberally from it." — Philosophy NowOutrageously funny, Plato an... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art of Happiness

    Translated by George K. Strodach ...
    The brilliant writings of a highly influential Greek philosopher, with a foreword by Daniel Klein, author of Travels with EpicurusThe teachings of Epicurus—about life and death, religion and science, physical sensation, happiness, morality, and friendship—attracted legions of adherents throughout the ancient Mediterranean world and deeply influenced later European thought. Though Epicurus faced ... Read more

    $10.99 USD