Very Short Introductions

Very Short Introductions is a 453-book series with 453 released primary works first released in 1469 with contributions by Mary Beard, John Henderson, Nicholas Cook, Damien Keown, Jonathan D. Culler, Kim Knott, Gillian Butler, Freda McManus, Malise Ruthven, Kenneth Minogue, David F. Ford, Paul G. Bahn, Norman Solomon, Steve Bruce, Michael A. Cook, John Riches, John Monaghan, Peter Just, John H. Arnold, Peter Salway, John Blair, John Gillingham, Ralph A. Griffiths, John Guy, John Morrill, Paul Langford, Christopher Harvie, H.C.G. Matthew, Kenneth O. Morgan, Michael J. Inwood, Julia Annas, C.C.W. Taylor, Peter Singer, Graham Priest, Tom Sorell, Quentin Skinner, Jonathan Barnes, A.J. Ayer, Michael Tanner, Jonathan Howard, Simon McDougall Usherwood, Bhikhu C. Parekh, Henry Chadwick, Ian J. Deary, Anthony Stevens, Michael Carrithers, E.P. Sanders, Simon Critchley, Stillman Drake, Anthony Storr, A.C. Grayling, Sue Hamilton, Robert Wokler, Roger Scruton, Peter Coles, Leslie L. Iversen, Catriona Kelly, William Doyle, Edward Craig, David DeGrazia, Patrick L. Gardiner, Stanley Wells, Michael Eliot Howard, Christopher Janaway, S.A. Smith, Richard Tuck, Philip V. Bohlman, Timothy Gowers, Samir Okasha, Fred C. Piper, Sean Murphy, John C. Polkinghorne, Michael Allingham, Andrew Ballantyne, Catherine Belsey, Christopher Butler, Naomi Zack, Stephen Howe, Kevin Passmore, Charles Townshend, Simon Blackburn, Dylan Evans, Marc Mulholland, Cynthia A. Freeland, John Dunn, Senia Paseta, Senia Pašeta, Manfred B. Steger, Robert J. McMahon, Michael Hoskin, Chris Frith, Eve C. Johnstone, Martin Redfern, Terrell Carver, Tony Wright, Peter Hugoe Matthews, Barry Cunliffe, Michael Freeden, Emeritus Professor of Politics Michael Freeden, Chris Gosden, Robert J.C. Young, Julian Baggini, Brian Charlesworth, Deborah Charlesworth, Philip Ball, Ford Madox Ford, Catherine Osborne, David Hopkins, Geraldine Pinch, Beth Williamson, James Fulcher, Frank Close, Thomas Pink, Robert A. Segal, Ian Shaw, Penelope Wilson, Tony Hope, Michael Dunn, Ritchie Robertson, Ritchie (St John's College Robertson, University of Oxford), Alex Prichard, harry-sidebottom, Mark Maslin, Linda Woodhead, David Cottington, Susan Blackmore, Gary Gutting, Helen Graham, John Phillips, James Gordon Finlayson, Michael Newman, J. Allan Hobson, David Norman, Geraldine A. Johnson, Adrian Poole, Eleanor Nesbitt, Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Steven Grosby, Amrita Narlikar, John Heskett, Julian D. Richards, Keith S. Thomson, Ian Hargreaves, Christopher Tyerman, Margaret Walters, Bernard Wood, Timothy H. Lim, Michael O'Shea, Bill McGuire, Julian Stallabrass, Jerry Brotton, Mark D. Chapman, Christopher Kelly, Steven Edwards, Tom Burns, Thomas R. Flynn, Michael Howard, Partha Dasgupta, Khalid Koser, Rob Iliffe, Leonard Smith, Richard Rathbone, John Parker, Ali Rattansi, Joseph Dan, Andrew Clapham, Paul Wilkinson, Charles O. Jones, Eric Rauchway, Helen Morales, Kyle Keefer, L. Sandy Maisel, John Sutherland, Klaus Dodds, Steven Beller, Ken Binmore, Alan Whiteside, Patricia Aufderheide, Rana Mitter, Pink Dandelion, Nicholas Boyle, Joseph M. Siracusa, Raymond Wacks, Michael D. Coogan, Richard L. Bushman, Timothy Beal, John A. Matthews, David T. Herbert, Terry Eagleton, Véronique Mottier, Elleke Boehmer, Thomas Dixon, Russell Stannard, William Bynum, Richard Bellamy, Michael J. Benton, Jonathan K. Foster, Uta Frith, David J. Hand, Rab Houston, Gerald O'Collins, Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Nigel Warburton, Paul Foster, Christopher Goto-Jones, Allen C. Guelzo, Stephen J. Blundell, Hermione Lee, Stephen Lovell, Andrew Robinson, Leslie Holmes, Rebecca Arnold, Jim Fraser, Francis J. Bremer, Peter Marshall, Fergus Kerr, Nick Middleton, George Garnett, Eric H. Cline, Gil Troy, Terryl L. Givens, Adam J. Silverstein, Ravi K. Roy, Walter Nugent, Rodolfo Saracci, Luciano Floridi, Peter Atkins, Mark Dodgson, David Gann, Malcolm Gaskill, Luke Timothy Johnson, John D. Lyons, Kathryn Marie Kalinak, Andrew Bowie, Winston Fletcher, David Canter, Keith Grint, D. Stephen Long, Harvey Mansfield Jr., Delba Winthrop, Andrew S. Goudie, Heather Viles, Jo Labanyi, Theda Perdue, Michael D. Green, Donald A. Ritchie, Michael Ferber, Lyman Tower Sargent, Elijah Wald, Robert Skidelsky, Jonathan Bate, Robin Le Poidevin, Scott H. Hendrix, Frank A.J.L. James, David A. Rothery, William K. Kay, Stephen Law, Mark Slobin, Gillian Clark, Peter M. Higgins, Jonathan Brown, Stephen Eric Bronner, Mary Jo Hatch, Thomas Forrest Kelly, Lawrence M. Principe, Nicholas James, Maxwell Irvine, Owen Davies, Baruch Fischhoff, John Kadvany, David Seed, Jennifer T. Roberts, Paul Strohm, David A. Gerber, Richard Bauckham, Dorothy H. Crawford, Mark A. Noll, Simon Glendinning, Andrew Scull, Lewis Wolpert, Lynda Mugglestone, Robert C. Allen, Stephen Smith, Terence Allen, Graham Cowling, Paul Anthony Cartledge, David Albert Jones, Kimberley Reynolds, Eric Scerri, Vanessa R. Schwartz, Jan Westerhoff, Darrel Ince, Peter Holland, Rolena Adorno, Steven W. Lockley, Russell G. Foster, Davíd Carrasco, Richard Curt Kraus, Roberto González Echevarría, Michael Wood, Matthew Restall, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Sabina Knight, Jonathan M.W. Slack, Peter Hainsworth, David Robey, Jacqueline A. Stedall, Linda Greenhouse, Paul Slack, Geoffrey Hosking, David Blockley, John Haigh, Timothy Walker, Aidan O'Donnell, Morris Rossabi, Darren Oldridge, Stephen Gaukroger, Daniel Freeman, Jason Freeman, Kenneth Morgan, Stephen R. Anderson, Nicholas Vincent, Andrew R. King, Claudio Tuniz, Katherine Hawley, Stephen Mumford, David M. Gwynn, 戴维·M. 格温, Alexander C. Diener, Joshua Hagen, Nick Groom, Alan Winfield, David Muir Wood, Paul S. Boyer, Guido Caldarelli, Michele Catanzaro, Philip Sheldrake, Stephen Fineman, Ennis Edmonds, Matthew Bevis, Mike Rapport, Charles Foster, Richard Toye, Gary Thomas, Philip V. Mladenov, Ashley Jackson, Martin Bunton, Daniel M. Haybron, Robert Eaglestone, David Sterritt, John R. Edwards, Kenneth Falconer, Christopher S. Browning, Amanda H. Podany, G. Edward White, Timothy Rice, Jack A. Goldstone, Christopher Nobes, Peter S. Ungar, Avinash K. Dixit, Christopher Smith, David Bender, John H. Holland, Hugh Bowden, Heather Andrea Williams, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., John Bowker, Jennifer Nagel, Marvin A. Carlson, Christina Riggs, Miri Rubin, Christopher Hall, David J. Vaughan, Oliver P. Richmond, Ali M. Ansari, Gerhard L. Weinberg, Usha Goswami, Mike Cronin, Stewart A Weaver, Nicholas P. Money, Jeremy Moon, Ronald de Sousa, Eva Burns-Lundgren, Tom Burns, Leslie Klenerman, Stephen Aron, Donald T. Critchlow, Barry Stephenson, Susan Ware, Karen Radner, Richard Bradford, Daniel Pick, Richard J. Crisp, Peter S. Adamson, Vaughan Lowe, Katherine Blundell, William H. Brock, Peter Decherney, John Marenbon, Subrata Dasgupta, A.M. Glazer, Dane Keith Kennedy, Peter A. Furley, Aysha Divan, Janice Royds, Jens Zimmermann, Richard Passingham, Maria Rosa Antognazza, Alex Roland, Christian W. McMillen, Matthew Reynolds, Anna Cento Bull, Philippa Levine, Madeline Y. Hsu, Geoff Cottrell, Jan Zalasiewicz, John Goddard, John O.S. Wilson, Mary Jane Tacchi, Jan Scott, Michelle Baddeley, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Cas Mudde, Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Martyn Rady, Graham L. Patrick, Antulio J. Echevarria II, John C. Maher, David N. Myers, Rob Boddice, Andreas Önnerfors, Jonathan St. B.T. Evans, Brian J. Rogers, Craig Jeffrey, Michael Beaney, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Stephen J. Davis, Peter Thonemann, J.L. Heilbron, Marina Warner, Simon Horobin, James Yeates, Ben Hutchinson, John M. Archibald, William Lowrie, Sean Kicummah Teuton, James R. Rush, David J. Bodenhamer, David Weir, Marlene Zuk, Leigh W. Simmons, Joachim Whaley, Brad Inwood, Laura Marcus, Jamie A. Davies, Margaret A. Boden, Brian Cummings, Richard S. Newman, Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, Paul Luna, Adam Sharr, James Marten, James Como, Jenny Hartley, Barbara Graziosi, Belinda Jack, William J. Abraham, Margaret J. Snowling, Paul B. Wignall, Sidney Perkowitz, Jane Caplan, Duncan Pritchard, Bernard O'Donoghue, A. Edward Siecienski, Richard Earl, Donna Kornhaber, Richard Carlin, Michael J. Seth, Mark J. Rozell, Clyde Wilcox, W.J. Rorabaugh, Charles L Cohen, Eberhard O. Voit, Donald Wright, Richard Connolly, Mark V Lomolino, Christopher Wixson, Timothy Williamson, Tom McLeish, Carl Abbott, Nile Green, Mashood A Baderin, Jolyon Mitchell, Joshua Rey, Thomas A. Tweed, T.S. Kemp, Mark Lorch, Michael Wert, Darryl Jones, Jamie Davies, Ilan Stavans, Mary Joan Winn Leith, Andrew Kahn, Pippa Virdee, Maciej Dunajski, Philip Dwyer, David Cabrelli, Andrew J. Bayliss, Eric Lauga, Mark Katz, Doron Swade, David A. Leeming, Dana Villa, A.W. Moore, Charles Barr, Thomas Williams, Philip Moriarty, Alan Tansman, Liba Taub, David W. Macdonald, Martin Hewitt, Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei, and Fernanda Ferreira.