'What if she isn't happy - does she think men are happy in this world? Doesn't she know how lucky she is to be a woman?' The pioneering Betty Friedan here identifies the strange problem plaguing American housewives, and examines the malignant role advertising plays in perpetuating the myth of the 'happy housewife heroine'. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

For many centuries the library of lawless hell hole Santa Mondega, in South America, has held a gruesome secret. There is on its shelves a nameless book, by an anonymous author, and everyone who has ever read it ... is dead.

Katie Carrollton and her friends decide to spend the first party of their senior year at an old house, recently acquired by her mother’s real estate company. The party is set for early October, so preparations begin. First and foremost, they have to gain access to the house without Katie’s mother’s knowledge. Once that’s done, the celebration is on. As the night progresses, the partiers experience unexplainable events. They become the targets of nameless supernatural foes, and their lives are now in danger. Horrific attacks force each party guest to face his or her deepest, darkest fears. Katie soon learns she has a connection to the mysterious house; her ancestors once owned it. Due to frightful occurrences, her own newly realized gifts awaken and could help them stay alive. Katie’s unknown family secrets are the key to saving her friends—friends who will be forever changed by this night of terror.

Amber, Christian, Jay, and their friends are back to face the challenges of confronting It to save the life of their friend, Katie, who is being held captive in Hell. Before they can face the challenge of traveling to the depths of darkness where only the souls of the tortured and dead stir, they must use witchcraft to view the past and learn as much as they can about the murders of the Hamilton family. After witnessing these horrific murders by It, they learn vital information that helps them to prepare to rescue Katie from a place where dark witches, demons, and the devil call home. Once they have learned this crucial information from the past, Amber recruits the help of Jay and other vampires to train and guide them through the darkness below. Their powers and abilities as a team are strengthened as they travel to Hell to save Katie. Amber is warned early on, though, that not everyone she trusts can be trusted. What secrets are revealed in the house on Highway 89? Can they rescue Katie from Hell and keep everyone alive while doing so? Let your fingers carefully travel the pages of this book to find out.

From one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century—an extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies that powerfully speaks to contemporary conversations around racism. “It contains truth that cannot be denied.” —The Atlantic Monthly In this stunningly personal document, James Baldwin remembers in vivid details the Harlem childhood that shaped his early conciousness and the later events that scored his heart with pain—the murders of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, his sojourns in Europe and in Hollywood, and his retum to the American South to confront a violent America face-to-face.

Heinz von Foerster was the inventor of second-order cybernetics, which recognizes the investigator as part of the system he is investigating. The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name provides an accessible, nonmathematical, and comprehensive overview of von Foerster’s cybernetic ideas and of the philosophy latent within them. It distills concepts scattered across the lifework of this scientific polymath and influential interdisciplinarian. At the same time, as a book-length interview, it does justice to von Foerster’s élan as a speaker and improviser, his skill as a raconteur. Developed from a week-long conversation between the editors and von Foerster near the end of his life, this work playfully engages von Foerster in developing the difference his notion of second-order cybernetics makes for topics ranging from emergence, life, order, and thermodynamics to observation, recursion, cognition, perception, memory, and communication. The book gives an English-speaking audience a new ease of access to the rich thought and generous spirit of this remarkable and protean thinker.