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Association of American Publishers Announces Finalists for 2019 PROSE Awards

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today unveiled 165 Finalists across 49 subject categories for the 2019 PROSE Awards (#PROSEAwards) honoring scholarly works published in 2018. Since 1976, the Association of American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence [PROSE Awards] have recognized publishers who produce books, journals, and digital products of extraordinary merit that make a significant contribution to a field of study in a given year.

A panel of 18 judges reviewed more than 500 entries in this year’s competition. The Finalists announced today have achieved a tremendous honor that speaks to the breadth and depth of scholarly publishing.

On January 29, 2019, AAP will further refine the field by announcing a Subject Category Winner from among the Finalists in each category. Subject Category Winners will go on to compete for one of four awards:

• The 2019 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences
• The 2019 PROSE Award for Excellence in Humanities
• The 2019 PROSE Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences and Mathematics
• The 2019 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences

Biological and Life Sciences | Humanities | Physical Sciences and Mathemetics | Reference Works | Social Sciences

One of these four will receive, the R.R. Hawkins Award, the ultimate winner of the annual PROSE competition.

AAP will reveal the R.R. Hawkins Award Winner and the four PROSE Award for Excellence Winners at the PROSE Award luncheon in Washington, DC on February 7, 2019 at the 2019 AAP Conference for Professional and Scholarly Publishing. Individual tickets and table sponsorships are available at the luncheon. To register, please contact Sara Pinto at spinto@publishers.org.

 

The 2019 PROSE Award Finalists by Subject Category

Biological and Life Sciences | Humanities | Physical Sciences and Mathemetics | Reference Works | Social Sciences

Biological and Life Sciences

Biological Science | Biomedicine & Neuroscience | Clinical Medicine | Nursing & Allied Health | Clinical Psychology

Biological Science

• CRC Handbook of Marine Mammal Medicine, 3rd Edition
  CRC Press/Taylor & Francis
  Frances M.D. GullandLeslie A. Dierauf, and Karyl L. Whitman

• Extended Heredity: A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution
  Princeton University Press
  Russell Bonduriansky and Troy Day

• First in Fly: Drosophila Research and Biological Discovery
  Harvard University Press
  Stephanie Elizabeth Mohr

• Management of Animal Care and Use Programs in Research, Education, and Testing, 2nd Edition
  CRC Press/Taylor & Francis
  Robert H. Weichbrod, Gail A. (Heidbrink) Thompson, and John N. Norton

• Who We Are and How We Got Here
  Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House
  David Reich

Biomedicine & Neuroscience

• Cajal's Neuronal Forest: Science and Art
  Oxford University Press
  Javier DeFelipe

• Human Spatial Navigation
  Princeton University Press
  Arne D. Ekstrom, Hugo J. Spiers, Véronique D. Bohbot & R. Shayna Rosenbaum
   
• The Neuroscience of Emotion: A New Synthesis
  Princeton University Press 
  Ralph Adolphs and David J. Anderson

Clinical Medicine

• Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Cross-Sectional Anatomy
  Demos Medical, an Imprint of Springer Publishing
  John C. Cianca MD, Shounuck I. Patel DO

• Nelson Pediatric Symptom-Based Diagnosis
  Elsevier
  Robert M. Kliegman, Patricia S. Lye, Brett J. Bordini, Heather Toth, and Donald Basel

Nursing & Allied Health  

• Clinical Leadership for Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners
  Springer Publishing Company
  Michael Huckabee PhD, PA-C

• Lehne's Pharmacotherapeutics for Advanced Practice Providers, 1st Edition
  Elsevier
  Laura D. Rosenthal and Jacqueline Rosenjack Burchum

Clinical Psychology

• Men in White Coats: Treatment Under Coercion
  Oxford University Press
  George Szmukler

• The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain
  Yale University Press
  Nick Chater

• The New Mind Readers: What Neuroimaging Can and Cannot Reveal about Our Thoughts
  Princeton University Press
  Russell A. Poldrack
   
• Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond
  McGill-Queens University Press
  Edited by Cynthia Carson Bisbee, Paul Bisbee, Erika Dyck, Patrick Farrell, James Sexton and James W. Spisak

 

Humanities

Archeology & Ancient History | Art Exhibitions | Art History & Criticism | Biography & Autobiography | Classics | Language & Linguistics | Literature | Media & Cultural Studies | Music & Performing Arts | North American/U.S. History | Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade Publisher | Philosophy | Theology & Religious Studies | World History

Archeology & Ancient History

• Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World
  Getty Publications
  Edited by Jeffrey Spier, Timothy Potts, and Sara E. Cole

• The First Farmers of Europe: An Evolutionary Perspective
  Cambridge University Press
  Stephen Shennan

• Rome Resurgent
  Oxford University Press
  Peter Heather

• Troy: Myth, City, Icon
  Bloomsbury
  Naoise Mac Sweeney

• Unearthing childhood: Young lives in prehistory
  Manchester University Press
  Robin Derricourt

Art Exhibitions

• Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment
  Princeton University Art Museum
  Karl Kusserow and Alan Braddock

• Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today
  Yale University Press
  Denise Murrell

• The Renaissance Nude
  Getty Publications
  Edited by Thomas Kren with Jill Burke and Stephen J. Campbell Assisted by Andrea Herrera and Thomas DePasquale

• The Surreal Visions of Josephine Tota
  RIT Press
  Edited by Jessica Marten

• Thomas Cole's Journey: Atlantic Crossings
  Yale University Press
  Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser and Tim Barringer with Dorothy Mahon, Christopher Riopelle, and Shannon Vittoria

Art History & Criticism

• Artist as Reporter: Weegee, Ad Reinhardt, and the PM News Picture
  University of California Press
  Jason E. Hill

• Moved to Tears: Rethinking the Art of the Sentimental in the United States
  Princeton University Press
  Rebecca Bedell

• Orientalist Lives: Western Artists in the Middle East, 1830–1920
  The American University in Cairo Press 
  James Parry

Biography & Autobiography

• Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices From the Women's Liberation Movement
  NYU Press
  Joyce Antler

• The Man Who Saw Tomorrow: The Life and Inventions of Stanford R. Ovshinsky
  The MIT Press
  Lillian Hoddeson and Peter Garrett

• The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
  Oxford University Press
  Jeffrey C. Stewart

Classics

• Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
  Princeton University Press
  Adrienne Mayor
   
• Londinium: A Biography: Roman London from Its Origins to the Fifth Century
  Bloomsbury
  Richard Hingley

• Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age
  Harvard University Press
  Donna Zuckerberg

• A Social and Cultural History of Late Antiquity
  Wiley
  Douglas Boin

Language & Linguistics

• An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States
  University of California Press
  Rosina Lozano

• Changing Minds Changing Tools: From Learning Theory to Language Acquisition to Language Change
  The MIT Press
  Vsevolod Kapatsinski

• Gender from Latin to Romance: History, Geography, Typology
  Oxford University Press
  Michele Loporcaro

• Learning to Interpret: Working from English Into American Sign Language
  RIT Press
  Campbell McDermid

Literature

• Comfort Measures Only: New and Selected Poems, 1994–2016
  Duke University Press
  Rafael Campo

• A History of Russian Literature
  Oxford University Press
  Andrew Kahn, Mark Lipovetsky, Irina Reyfman, and Stephanie Sandler

• Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time by Vladimir Nabokov
  Princeton University Press
  Vladimir Nabokov, (Compiled, edited, and with commentaries by Gennady Barabtarlo)

• Why Indigenous Literatures Matter
  Wilfrid Laurier University Press
  Daniel Heath Justice

• The Work of Literary Translation
  Cambridge University Press
  Clive Scott

• The Work of Literature in an Age of Post-Truth
  Bloomsbury
  Christopher Schaberg

Media and Cultural Studies

• Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
  NYU Press
  Safiya Umoja Noble

• Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media
  Yale University Press
  Tarleton Gillespie

• Ethics for a Digital Era
  Wiley
  Deni Elliott and Edward H. Spence
   
• Nobody’s Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood
  Oxford University Press
  J.E. Smyth

• On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped the News
  Harvard University Press
  Matthew Pressman

Music & the Performing Arts

• Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound
  Bloomsbury
  Samantha Bennett and Eliot Bates

• Freedom's Dance: Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs in New Orleans
  LSU Press
  Photographs by Eric Waters and Narrative by Karen Celestan 
   
• Guillaume Du Fay: The Life and Works
  Cambridge University Press
  Alejandro Planchart

• Uncharted: Creativity and the Expert Drummer
  University of Michigan
  Bill Bruford

• Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara
  Cambridge University Press
  Laurie Stras

North American/U.S. History

• American Capitalism: New Histories
  Columbia University Press
  Edited by Sven Beckert and Christine Desan

• Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America
  Cambridge University Press
  Martha S. Jones

• Empire by Invitation: William Walker and Manifest Destiny in Central America
  Harvard University Press
  Michel Gobat

• The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910-1950
  University of North Carolina Press
  Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt

• Upending the Ivory Tower: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League
  NYU Press
  Stefan M. Bradley

Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade Publisher

• Amity and Prosperity
  Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  Eliza Griswold

• Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
  Touchstone
  Linda Kay Klein
   
• Underbug
  Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  Lisa Margonelli

Philosophy

• Aristotle's Science of Matter and Motion
  University of Toronto Press
  Christopher Byrne
   
• Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
  Oxford University Press
  Kate Manne

• The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia
  NYU Press
  Gayle Salamon

Theology & Religious Studies

• Against Dharma: Dissent in the Ancient Indian Sciences of Sex and Politics
  Yale University Press
  Wendy Doniger

• God's Library: The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts
  Yale University Press
  Brent Nongbri
   
• The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
  Oxford University Press
  Alan Jacobs 
   
• Vanity Fair and the Celestial City: Dissenting, Methodist, and Evangelical Literary Culture in England 1720-1800
  Oxford University Press
  Isabel Rivers

World History

• Citizens without Nations: Urban Citizenship in Europe and the World, c.1000–1789
  Cambridge University Press
  Maarten Prak

• Climate Change in Human History: Prehistory to the Present
  Bloomsbury
  Benjamin Lieberman and Elizabeth Gordon

• The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages
  Cambridge University Press
  Geraldine Heng

• The Mexican Heartland: How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History, 1500-2000
  Princeton University Press
  John Tutino

• The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment
  Harvard University Press
  Alexander Bevilacqua
   
• Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century
  Yale University Press
  James Loeffler

 

Physical Sciences & Mathematics

Chemistry & Physics | Computing & Information Sciences | Cosmology & Astronomy | Earth Science | Engineering & Technology | Environmental Science | History of Science, Technology and Medicine | Mathematics | Popular Science & Popular Mathematics

Chemistry & Physics

• Physical Chemistry of Gas-Liquid Interfaces
  Elsevier
  Jennifer Faust and J.E. House

Computing & Information Sciences

• Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
  The MIT Press
  Meredith Broussard 
   
• What Can Be Computed? A Practical Guide to the Theory of Computation
  Princeton University Press
  John MacCormick

Cosmology & Astronomy

• Astrobiology, Discovery, and Societal Impact
  Cambridge University Press
  Steven J. Dick
   
• The Great Silence
  Oxford University Press
  Milan M. Ćirković

Earth Science

• Geocryology: Characteristics and Use of Frozen Ground and Permafrost Landforms
  CRC Press
  Stuart A. Harris, Anatoli Brouchkov & Cheng Guodong
   
• Global Flood Hazard: Applications in Modeling, Mapping and Forecasting
  Wiley
  Guy J-P. Schumann, Paul D. Bates, Heiko Apel, Giuseppe T. Aronica
   
• Machine Learning Techniques for Space Weather
  Elsevier
  Enrico Camporeale, Simon Wing and Jay Johnson

Engineering & Technology

• High Mobility Materials for CMOS Applications
  Elsevier
  Nadine Collaert
   
• Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, Twelfth Edition
  McGraw-Hill Education
  Ali M. Sadegh and William M. Worek 
   
• Space Safety and Human Performance
  Elsevier
  Tommaso Sgobba, Barbara Kanki, Jean-Francois Clervoy and Gro Sandal
   
• Vehicle Feedback and Driver Situation Awareness
  CRC Press/Taylor and Francis Group
  Guy H. Walker, Neville A. Stanton, and Paul M. Salmon

Environmental Science

• Microplastic Contamination in Aquatic Environments: An Emerging Matter of Environmental Urgency
  Elsevier
  Eddy Zeng
   
• Statistical Downscaling and Bias Correction for Climate Research
  Cambridge University Press
  Douglas Maraun, Martin Widmann

History of Science, Technology and Medicine

• Atlas of Refugees, Displaced Populations, and Epidemic Diseases: Decoding Global Geographical Patterns and Processes Since 1901
  Oxford University Press
  Matthew Smallman-Raynor and Andrew Cliff
   
• Designing an Internet
  The MIT Press
  David Clark
   
• Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity
  Princeton University Press
  Theodore M. Porter

Mathematics

• Geometric Group Theory
  American Mathematical Society
  Cornelia Druţu and Michael Kapovich
   
• High-Dimensional Probability: An Introduction with Applications in Data Science
  Cambridge University Press
  Roman Vershynin
   
• The Theory of Quantum Information
  Cambridge University Press
  John Watrous

Popular Science & Popular Mathematics

• Anxiety and the Equation: Understanding Boltzmann's Entropy
  The MIT Press
  Eric Johnson
   
• Is That a Big Number?
  Oxford University Press
  Andrew Elliott
   
• Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
  Princeton University Press
  Marcia Bjornerud

 

Reference Works

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eProducts

• BirdGenie™
  Princeton University Press
  Software written by Tom Stephenson, Stephen Travis Pope and Scott Whittle
   
• Pan-Cancer Atlas
  Cell Press
  Lead Editor: Robert Kruger
   
• Political Extremism & Radicalism in the Twentieth Century: Far-right and Left Political Groups in the U.S., Europe and Australia
  Gale, a Cengage company
  Rachel Holt

Best New Journal in Humanities

• ASAP/Journal
  Johns Hopkins University Press
  Jonathan Eburne

• Journal of Chinese History
  Cambridge University Press
  Patricia Ebrey

Best New Journal in Science, Technology and Medicine

• Case Studies in the Environment
  University of California Press
  Wil Burns, Editor-in-Chief
   
• GeoHealth
  AGU and Wiley
  Gabriel Filippelli, Editor in Chief

Best New Journal in Social Sciences

• AERA Open
  SAGE Publishing
  Mark Warschauer, Nancy E. Hill, and Greg J. Duncan

• Management Teaching Review
  SAGE Publishing
  Jane Schmidt-Wilk
   
• Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  SAGE Publishing
  Susan T. Fiske

Innovation in Journal Publishing

• Modernism/modernity Print Plus
  Johns Hopkins University Press
  Debra Rae Cohen

Multivolume Reference/Humanities

• The Cambridge History of Medieval Music
  Cambridge University Press
  Edited by Mark Everist, Thomas Forrest Kelly
   
• The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
  Oxford University Press
  Edited by Oliver Nicholson
   
• The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching
  Wiley
  Editor in Chief: John I. Liontas

Multivolume Reference/Science

• Comprehensive Organic Transformations: A Guide to Functional Group Preparations, 3rd Edition
  Wiley
  Richard C. Larock
   
• Encyclopedia of Geochemistry
  Springer
  William M. White 
   
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate Change Communication
  Oxford University Press
  Edited by Matthew C. Nisbet

Multivolume Reference/Social Sciences

• APA Handbook of the Psychology of Women; Vol. 1: History, Theory, and Battlegrounds; and Vol 2: Perspectives on Women's Private and Public Lives
  American Psychological Association
  Cheryl B. Travis and Jacquelyn W. White
   
• Rethinking Society for the 21st Century: Report of the International Panel on Social Progress
  Cambridge University Press
  International Panel on Social Progress

Single Volume Reference/Humanities

• The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic LiteratureBloomsburyJoseph Tabbi
• Gardens of the Roman EmpireCambridge University PressEdited by Wilhelmina F. Jashemski, Kathryn L. Gleason , Kim J. Hartswick, and Amina-Aïcha Malek
• Historical Atlas of HasidismPrinceton University PressMarcin Wodziński
• St. James Encyclopedia of Hip Hop CultureGale, a Cengage company Thomas Riggs

Single Volume Reference/Science

• Encyclopedia of Engineering Geology
  Springer
  Peter Bobrowsky and Brian Marker

Textbook/Biological & Life Sciences

• Hidden Persuaders in Cocoa and Chocolate: A Flavor Lexicon for Cocoa and Chocolate Sensory Professionals
  Elsevier
  Renata Januszewska

• Pathology of Wildlife and Zoo Animals
  Elsevier
  Karen Terio, Denise McAloose and Judy St. Leger

Textbook/Clinical Science

• An Atlas of Comparative Vertebrate Histology
  Elsevier
  Donald B. McMillan and Richard James Harris
   
• Human Biochemistry
  Elsevier
  Gerald Litwack

Textbook/Physical Sciences & Mathematics

• Machine Learning: A Concise Introduction
  Wiley
  Steven W. Knox
   
• The Physics of Energy
  Cambridge University Press
  Robert L. Jaffe, Washington Taylor
   
• Weather: A Concise Introduction
  Cambridge University Press
  Gregory J. Hakim, Jérôme Patoux

Textbook/Social Sciences

• Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age
  Princeton University Press
  Matthew J. Salganik
   
• Canada and the Challenges of International Development and Globalization
  Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa|University of Ottawa Press
  Edited by Mahmoud Masaeli and Lauchlan T. Munro

 

Social Sciences

Anthropology, Criminology, and Sociology | Architecture and Urban Planning | Business, Management and Finance | Economics | Education (Practice and Theory) | Government, Policy and Politics | Psychology

Anthropology, Criminology, and Sociology

• Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life
  University of California Press
  Marcus Anthony Hunter and Zandria F. Robinson

• Fractivism: Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds
  Duke University Press
  Sara Ann Wylie
   
• Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia
  University of North Carolina Press
  Karida L. Brown
   
• Life in Oil: Cofán Survival in the Petroleum Fields of Amazonia
  University of Texas Press
  Michael L. Cepek
   
• Privacy as Trust: Information Privacy for an Information Age
  Cambridge University Press
  Ari Ezra Waldman
   
• The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a Gender Revolution
  NYU Press
  Ann Travers

Architecture and Urban Planning

• Banking on Beauty: Millard Sheets and Midcentury Commercial Architecture in California
  University of Texas Press
  Adam Arenson

• Depositions: Roberto Burle Marx and Public Landscapes under Dictatorship
  University of Texas Press
  Catherine Seavitt Nordenson
   
• Inventing the Opera House: Theater Architecture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy
  Cambridge University Press
  Eugene J. Johnson
   
• Luxury and Modernism: Architecture and the Object in Germany 1900-1933
  Princeton University Press
  Robin Schuldenfrei
   
• Sustainable Nation: Urban Design Patterns for the Future
  Wiley
  Douglas Farr

Business, Management and Finance

• Leading with Dignity: How to Create a Culture That Brings Out the Best in People
  Yale University Press
  Donna Hicks

Economics

• The Economics of Religion in India
  Harvard University Press
  Sriya Iyer
   
• EuroTragedy
  Oxford University Press
  Ashoka Mody
   
• The Lies We Were Told
  Bristol University Press
  Simon Wren-Lewis

• Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society
  Princeton University Press
  Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl 
   
• The Republic of Beliefs: A New Approach to Law and Economics
  Princeton University Press
  Kaushik Basu
   
• Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State
  Princeton University Press
  Paul Tucker

Education (Practice and Theory)

• An Inclusive Academy: Achieving Diversity and Excellence
  The MIT Press
  Abigail J. Stewart and Virginia Valian
   
• It’s Not About Grit: Trauma, Inequity, and the Power of Transformative Teaching
  Teachers College Press
  Steven Goodman
   
• Refugees in Higher Education: Debate, Discourse and Practice
  Emerald Publishing
  Jacqueline Stevenson and Sally Baker
   
• Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech
  Princeton University Press
  Keith E. Whittington
   
• Slow Looking: The Art and Practice of Learning Through Observation
  Taylor & Francis
  Shari Tishman
   
• Sustainable School Leadership
  Bloomsbury
  Mike Bottery

Government, Policy and Politics

• At the Boundaries of Homeownership: Credit, Discrimination, and the American State
  Cambridge University Press
  Chloe N. Thurston
   
• Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President
  Oxford University Press
  Kathleen Hall Jamieson
   
• Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politic
  Princeton University Pres
  Avidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell & Maya Sen
   
• Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics
  Cambridge University Press
  Jamila Michener 
   
• Hacking the Bomb
  Georgetown University Press
  Andrew Futter

Psychology

• Living on Death Row: The Psychology of Waiting to Die
  American Psychological Association
  Hans Toch, James P. Acker, & Vincent Martin Bonventre
   
• The Mismeasure of Minds: Debating Race and Intelligence between Brown and The Bell Curve
  University of North Carolina Press
  Michael E. Staub
   

For information about PROSE Finalists or the PROSE competition contact Susanna Hinds shinds@publishers.org
 

About the AAP PROSE Awards

Since 1976, the Association of American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence [PROSE Awards] have recognized publishers who produce books, journals, and digital products of extraordinary merit that make a significant contribution to a field of study in the humanities, biological and physical sciences, reference and social sciences.

About the Association of American Publishers

AAP | The Association of American Publishers represents the leading book, journal, and education publishers in the United States on matters of law and policy, advocating for outcomes that incentivize the publication of creative expression, professional content, and learning solutions. As essential participants in local markets and the global economy, our members invest in and inspire the exchange of ideas, transforming the world we live in one word at a time.