The Oxford Very Short Introductions Series is a 53-book series with 53 released primary works first released in 1980 with contributions by Christian W. McMillen, Peter Singer, Roger Scruton, Richard Tuck, Peter Coles, Malise Ruthven, C.C.W. Taylor, Graham Priest, Simon Critchley, S.A. Smith, Kevin Passmore, Stephen Howe, Edward Craig, Chris Gosden, Catherine Osborne, Thomas Pink, Margaret Walters, David Norman, Steven Grosby, Michael Newman, Eric Rauchway, Ken Binmore, Partha Dasgupta, John Gribbin, Jonathan K. Foster, جوناثان كيه فوستر, William Bynum, Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Nigel Warburton, David Canter, ديفيد كانتر, Robert Skidelsky, Lawrence M. Principe, Stephen Smith, Robert C. Allen, Andrew Scull, Guido Caldarelli, Michele Catanzaro, Stephen Mumford, Philip V. Mladenov, Mike Rapport, Richard Toye, Miri Rubin, Jennifer Nagel, Hugh Bowden, Christopher Smith, 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.