The Oxford Very Short Introductions Series is a 52-book series with 52 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, Simon Critchley, S.A. Smith, Kevin Passmore, Stephen Howe, Edward Craig, Catherine Osborne, Chris Gosden, Thomas Pink, Margaret Walters, Michael Newman, Steven Grosby, David Norman, Partha Dasgupta, Ken Binmore, Eric Rauchway, William Bynum, Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Jonathan K. Foster, جوناثان كيه فوستر, John Gribbin, Nigel Warburton, David Canter, ديفيد كانتر, Robert Skidelsky, Lawrence M. Principe, Stephen Smith, Andrew Scull, Robert C. Allen, Stephen Mumford, Guido Caldarelli, Michele Catanzaro, Philip V. Mladenov, Mike Rapport, Richard Toye, Miri Rubin, Jennifer Nagel, Christopher Smith, Hugh Bowden, Jens Zimmermann, Frank Close, Ritchie Robertson, Martyn Rady, David N. Myers, Richard S. Newman, J.L. Heilbron, Mark J. Rozell, Clyde Wilcox, and Paul B. Wignall.