Introduction

One of the things about getting older is that you begin to reminisce. This volume is the 20th that I have helped edit over many years, and I can’t help but thinking about the many people I have had the privilege to work with as coeditors, as representatives of our the three publishers (JAI, Elsevier, and now Emerald), and the many authors who have contributed to it over the years. The series would not have been the same without their patience and support. My association with ALAO goes back further in that I published an article in it in volume 2, and have followed it virtually from the beginning. When Jerry McCabe asked Ed Garten and me to take on this task, he explained that it was meant to be a series that showcased longer research studies that did not fit well in journals but that were too short to be published as monographs. That tradition has continued to the present.