The Oxford Very Short Introductions Series is a 50-book series with 50 released primary works first released in 1980 with contributions by Christian W. McMillen, Peter Singer, Richard Tuck, Peter Coles, C.C.W. Taylor, Graham Priest, Edward Craig, S.A. Smith, Stephen Howe, Kevin Passmore, Catherine Osborne, Chris Gosden, Thomas Pink, David Norman, Steven Grosby, Margaret Walters, Michael Newman, Partha Dasgupta, Eric Rauchway, Ken Binmore, Jonathan K. Foster, جوناثان كيه فوستر, John Gribbin, William Bynum, Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Nigel Warburton, David Canter, ديفيد كانتر, Robert Skidelsky, Stephen Smith, Robert C. Allen, Lawrence M. Principe, Andrew Scull, Guido Caldarelli, Michele Catanzaro, Stephen Mumford, Philip V. Mladenov, Richard Toye, Mike Rapport, Miri Rubin, Hugh Bowden, Jennifer Nagel, Christopher Smith, Frank Close, Jens Zimmermann, Ritchie Robertson, David N. Myers, Martyn Rady, Richard S. Newman, J.L. Heilbron, Mark J. Rozell, Clyde Wilcox, and Paul B. Wignall.