The Oxford Very Short Introductions Series is a 51-book series with 51 released primary works first released in 1980 with contributions by Christian W. McMillen, Peter Singer, Roger Scruton, Richard Tuck, Peter Coles, C.C.W. Taylor, Graham Priest, S.A. Smith, Kevin Passmore, Stephen Howe, Edward Craig, Chris Gosden, Catherine Osborne, Thomas Pink, Margaret Walters, Michael Newman, Steven Grosby, David Norman, Partha Dasgupta, Ken Binmore, Eric Rauchway, Jonathan K. Foster, جوناثان كيه فوستر, John Gribbin, William Bynum, Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Nigel Warburton, David Canter, ديفيد كانتر, Robert Skidelsky, Lawrence M. Principe, Stephen Smith, Andrew Scull, Robert C. Allen, Guido Caldarelli, Michele Catanzaro, Stephen Mumford, Philip V. Mladenov, Mike Rapport, Richard Toye, Hugh Bowden, Christopher Smith, Miri Rubin, Jennifer Nagel, Jens Zimmermann, Frank Close, Ritchie Robertson, David N. Myers, Martyn Rady, Richard S. Newman, J.L. Heilbron, Mark J. Rozell, Clyde Wilcox, and Paul B. Wignall.