No matter your age, September signals a return to the shark-infested waters of school or workplace. Here is a darkly comic and enticingly designed primer for survival. Right in tune with the millennial thirst for power and sanctimonious view of children, A Child's Machiavelli--distilled from the sixteenth-century Italian political philosopher's notorious treatise--spells out intricacies of manipulation and domination in simple, straightforward language juxtaposed with sweetly pastel images appropriated from children's classics.* Only give things away when people are watching* People who cheat are always more successful than people who are always honest* Make sure you only let people see you doing stuff where you come off really good* If somebody's got to hate you, make sure it's a bunch of weaklings with no moneyAs Machiavelli's Prince meets Antoine Saint-Exupery's Little Prince, it's easy as ABC to be politically savvy and savage at work or at play. Its tongue-in-cheek concept and mischievous format make A Child's Machiavelli a finely ironical key to maximizing your advantages and diminishing your rivals. What a wicked, decadent, delicious--and ruthlessly instructive--gift book!