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✍ Scribed by Barry, Max

Book ID
107696620
Publisher
Penguin Group US
Year
2013
Tongue
en-US
Weight
564 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781101604908

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

At an exclusive school somewhere outside of Arlington, Virginia, students aren't taught history, geography, or mathematics--at least not in the usual ways. Instead, they are taught to persuade. Here the art of coercion has been raised to a science .Students harness the hidden power of language to manipulate the mind and learn to break down individuals by psychographic markers in order to take control of their thoughts. The very best will graduate as "poets": adept wielders of languagewho belong to a nameless organization that is as influential as it is secretive.

Whip-smart orphan Emily Ruff is making a living running a three-card Monte game on the streets of San Francisco when she attracts the attention of the organization's recruiters. She is flown across the country for the school's strange and rigorous entrance exams, where, once admitted, she will be taught the fundamentals of persuasion by Bronte, Eliot, and Lowell--who have adopted the names of...

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En algún lugar a las afueras de Arlington, Virginia, existe una escuela exclusiva a cuyos estudiantes no se les enseña historia, geografía o matemáticas, al menos en el sentido habitual. Se les enseña a persuadir, a emplear el lenguaje para manipular mentes, a utilizar las palabras como armas. A est