* René Girard, I See Satan Fall Like Lightning, translated by James G. Williams ; Orbis Books ; 2001, ISBN 1-57075-319-9

The current focus of New Directions is threefold: discovering and acquiring many new contemporary international writers and introducing them to the US ( among these are: W. G. Sebald, Roberto Bolaño, Javier Marías, César Aira, Inger Christensen, László Krasznahorkai, and Yoko Tawada ); maintaining a tradition of publishing new and experimental American poetry and prose ( recent poets include the National Book Award-winner for poetry Nathaniel Mackey, Forrest Gander, Eliot Weinberger, Michael Palmer, Susan Howe, Thalia Field, Peter Cole, and Will Alexander ); and reissuing New Directions ' classic titles in new editions with introductions by highly praised writers and artists, including: Jonathan Lethem ( Nathaniel West's Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust ), William Gibson ( Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths ), Susan Sontag ( Leonid Tsypkin's Summer in Baden-Baden ), Edwidge Danticat ( René Philoctète's Massacre River ), Sue Monk Kidd ( Thomas Merton's New Seeds of Contemplation ), John Ashbery ( Alvin Levin's Love is Like Park Avenue ), Devendra Banhart ( Kenneth Patchen's We Meet ), Will Self ( Henry Miller's The Colossus of Maroussi ), and Jeanette Winterson ( Djuna Barnes's Nightwood ).

Like his contemporary Descartes, Herbert searched for the foundations of

Like Descartes and Kant before him, he was motivated by the problem of subjectivity and consciousness.

Like Malebranche and others before him, Leibniz recognized the weaknesses of Descartes ' account of causal interaction taking place in a physical location in the brain.

Like Fermat, Frénicle was an amateur mathematician, but he still corresponded with the likes of Descartes, Huygens, Mersenne and also Fermat, who was his personal friend.

Like other Wiccans, Dianics may form covens, attend festivals, celebrate the eight major Wiccan holidays, Samhain, Beltane, Imbolc ( or Imbolg ), Lammas, the solstices and equinoxes ( see Wheel of the Year ) and the Esbats, which are rituals usually held at the full moon or dark moon.

Like Arius, he was a pupil of Lucian of Antioch, and it is probable that he held the same views as Arius from the very beginning ; he was also one of Arius ' most fervent supporters who encouraged Arius.

Like most of Central America, Honduras in the 1990s began to woo foreign investors, mostly Asian clothing assembly firms, and it held high hopes for revenue to be generated by privatizing national industries.

Like money, financial instruments may be " backed " by state military fiat, credit ( i. e. social capital held by banks and their depositors ), or commodity resources.

Like the Crown Estate, the land and assets of the Duchy of Lancaster, a property portfolio valued at £ 383 million in 2011, are held in trust.

Like those parties, representatives of EHAK have refused to explicitly condemn the ETA attacks but, given the fact that elections were to be held in a matter of days, the courts did not have the time to assess EHAK's compliance with the Ley de Partidos.

Like much Roman comedy, it is probably translated from an earlier Greek original, most commonly held to be Philemon's Long Night, or Rhinthon's Amphitryon, both now lost.

Like Dionysus, Cybele remained an essentially wild, foreign deity of distinctly un-Hellenic temperament, simultaneously embraced and " held at arms length " by the Greeks.

I crashed in a plane, I really damaged my brain / And then I layed in my bed with all this music in my head ./ The years have rolled by, I've watched the past die / But feelings remained like mercy much strained ./ Like a seed left unsown, like a leaf that was blown / Like a man who was blind, there was a lock on my mind ", but also his 1991 healing: " Then a man came to me and he held out the key / And the lock hinge was blown, I had never been alone ".

Like the fiesta, the Loggers and Forestry festival is held on the town's festival grounds.

Like the Fabulae the Astronomia is a collection of abridgements, and the style and level of Latin competence and the elementary mistakes ( especially in the rendering of the Greek originals ) were held by the anonymous contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th ed., 1911, to prove that they cannot have been the work of " so distinguished " a scholar as G. Julius Hyginus.

Like his funeral in New York on August 19, the burial was private, but earlier in the day a public memorial viewing of the closed casket was held in Milwaukee at Discovery World with 1, 500 attendees who were offered free admission to the Les Paul House of Sound exhibit for the day.

Like the Alaskan Malamute, their tail is carried curled over their back ; however, unlike the Malamute, the Samoyed tail is held actually touching the back.

Like Aristotle, Aquinas held that the human being was a unified composite substance of two substantial principles: form and matter.

Like other U. S. government debt obligations, the government bonds held by the trust funds are guaranteed by the " full faith and credit " of the U. S. government.

Like contemporary Terry Southern, Meyer realized that sex — as one of the few common interests among most humans — was a natural vehicle for satirizing values and conventions held by the Greatest Generation.

Like his grandfather the 1st Duke, he was raised as a Protestant, unlike his extended family who held to the old religion.

Like the Senate, its membership was restricted to those who had held high public office, in this case that of Archon.

Like many Catholic universities in the United States, Seton Hall arose out of the Plenary Council of American Bishops, held in Baltimore, Maryland in 1844, with the goal of bringing Catholicism to higher education in order to help propagate the faith.

Like extraordinary definitions, the ordinary magisterium may propose teachings both de fide credenda and de fide tenenda, and the latter may advance to the status of the former, and both are held to be infallible.

Like the Olympic Games, they were held in honour of Zeus.

Like his previous film, Judgment at Nuremberg ( 1961 ) was also a fictionalized account of a real trial, this one about the Nuremberg Trials held after the defeat of the Nazis in World War II.

Like the Papilionidae, Pieridae also have their pupae held at an angle by a silk girdle, but running at the first abdominal segment unlike the thoracic girdle seen in the Papilionidae.

Like humans, llama males and females mature sexually at different rates.

Like humans engaging in sex primarily for pleasure, this behavior in the above mentioned animals is also presumed to be for pleasure, and a contributing factor to strengthening their social bonds.

Like other elves, they are more dexterous than humans, but have a weaker constitution.

Like most rat vocalizations, the chirping is too high in pitch for humans to hear without special equipment.

Like Lullus before him, he did not experiment on humans.

Like humans, but unlike most other mammals, guinea pigs cannot synthesize their own vitamin C and must obtain this vital nutrient from food.

Like almost all other spiders, Argiope are harmless to humans.

Like all pythons, they are nonvenomous constrictors and normally not considered dangerous to humans.

Like angels, humans were spiritual beings, but unlike angels, human souls were " knotted " to a physical body.

Like other corvids, such as Ravens and Crows, their total brain to body ratio is equal to that of great apes and cetaceans, and only slightly lower than in humans.

Like other existing mammals, humans don't have this septomaxilla.

Like all pelicans, Brown Pelicans are highly sensitive to disturbances by humans ( often tourists or fishermen ) at their nest and may abandon their nest if stressed as such.

Like many other ideas in Tolkien's mythos, the notion of half-elves is borrowed from Norse mythology, in which elves occasionally had children with humans.

Like most North American viperids, these snakes prefer to avoid humans and, given the opportunity, will leave the area without biting.

Like nearly all colubrids, rat snakes pose no threat to humans.

Like humans, Xindi-Primates have differences in skin tone.

Like epidemiology, economics often studies the behavior of humans over periods too long to allow completely controlled experiments, in which case economists can use observational studies or quasi-experiments ; in these studies, economists collect data which are then analyzed with statistical methods ( econometrics ).

Like other hovercraft crews, Morpheus and his crew are dedicated to the protection of Zion and the freeing of humans from the Matrix.

Like all Whitelighters before her, Paige can only use her healing powers on humans and not animals or demons.

Like Death or experienced witches, Susan can make herself completely unnoticeable to humans if she so chooses, though some people, such as Albert or Mustrum Ridcully, who are used to such things, are still able to see her if they concentrate and she is not actively trying to avoid their specific notice.

Like all male damsel fish, the male Garibaldi will boldly attack much larger swimming creatures, including humans, to the point of biting divers in order to try to drive them away from the area where the eggs are deposited.

Like many other species of birds the Cyanoramphus parakeets have suffered from changes brought about by humans.

Like reduplicative babbling in humans, the call type is often repeated several times before a new sequence of sounds is produced.