Very Short Introductions
Very Short Introductions (VSI) is a book series published by the Oxford University Press (OUP) since 1995. Books in the series offer concise introductions to particular subjects, intended for a general audience but written by experts in the field. (For example, authors of VSI entries in philosophy include A. J. Ayer, Roger Scruton, A. C. Grayling, and Peter Singer.) Individual titles range from 96 to 224 pages in length, with most between 120 and 180, and nearly all contain suggestions for further reading. While authors may present personal viewpoints, the books are meant to be "balanced and complete" as well as thought provoking.[1]
As of March 2015, there are 425 titles in the series, with 33 more (and 8 updated editions) scheduled for publication by May 2016.[2] The publisher states that "the series will encompass every major academic discipline, offering all students an accessible and abundant reference library."[3]
The VSI series has been very commercially successful. By 2011, OUP was giving sales figures for the series as over five million copies worldwide,[4] and VSI books have been published in more than 25 languages.[5]
OUP provides an online subscription-based service for institutions where users can read VSI titles.[6] The website allows users to perform cross-searches of the entire series, and the Oxford Index provides integration with other OUP content. The website also allows users to save chapters, books or searches on their profiles, and highlight or make annotations on the text.
Most of the books were written specifically for the VSI series, but around 60 first had life as previous OUP publications. For example, several of the earlier VSI volumes were initially published as part of OUP's Past Masters series, or (in the case of numbers 17–24) as chapters by different authors from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain (1984).
List of books in the series
# | Topic | Author(s) | UK print publication date | Original publication |
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001 | Classics | Mary Beard, John Henderson | 24 February 2000 | 1995 |
002 | Music | Nicholas Cook | 24 February 2000 | 1998 |
003 | Buddhism | Damien Keown | 24 February 2000 28 February 2013 (2nd ed.) | 1996 |
004 | Literary Theory | Jonathan Culler | 24 February 2000 28 July 2011 (2nd ed.) | 1997 |
005 | Hinduism | Kim Knott | 24 February 2000 1 May 2016 (2nd ed.) | 1998 |
006 | Psychology | Gillian Butler, Freda McManus | 24 February 2000 23 January 2014 (2nd ed.) | 1998 |
007 | Islam | Malise Ruthven | 24 February 2000 26 January 2012 (2nd ed.) | 1997 |
008 | Politics | Kenneth Minogue | 24 February 2000 | 1995 |
009 | Theology | David F. Ford | 24 February 2000 24 October 2013 (2nd ed.) | 1999 |
010 | Archaeology | Paul Bahn (illustrator: Bill Tidy) | 24 February 2000 30 August 2012 (updated edition) | 1996 |
011 | Judaism | Norman Solomon | 24 February 2000 28 August 2014 (2nd ed.) | 1996 |
012 | Sociology | Steve Bruce | 24 February 2000 | 1999 |
013 | The Koran | Michael Cook | 24 February 2000 | |
014 | The Bible | John Riches | 24 February 2000 | |
015 | Social and Cultural Anthropology | John Monaghan, Peter Just | 24 February 2000 | |
016 | History | John Arnold | 24 February 2000 | |
017 | Roman Britain | Peter Salway | 10 August 2000 1 August 2015 (2nd ed.) | Chapter from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984 |
018 | The Anglo-Saxon Age | John Blair | 10 August 2000 | Chapter from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984 |
019 | Medieval Britain | John Gillingham, Ralph A. Griffiths | 10 August 2000 | Chapters from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984 |
020 | The Tudors | John Guy | 10 August 2000 29 August 2013 (2nd ed.) | Chapter from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984 |
021 | Stuart Britain | John Morrill | 10 August 2000 | Chapter from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984 |
022 | Eighteenth-Century Britain | Paul Langford | 10 August 2000 | Chapter from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984 |
023 | Nineteenth-Century Britain | Christopher Harvie, H. C. G. Matthew | 10 August 2000 | Chapters from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984 |
024 | Twentieth-Century Britain | Kenneth O. Morgan | 10 August 2000 | Chapter from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984 |
025 | Heidegger | Michael Inwood | 12 October 2000 | Past Masters series, 1997 |
026 | Ancient Philosophy | Julia Annas | 12 October 2000 | |
027 | Socrates | C. C. W. Taylor | 12 October 2000 | Past Masters series, 1998 |
028 | Marx | Peter Singer | 12 October 2000 | Past Masters series, 1980 |
029 | Logic | Graham Priest | 12 October 2000 | |
030 | Descartes | Tom Sorell | 12 October 2000 | Past Masters series, 1987 |
031 | Machiavelli | Quentin Skinner | 12 October 2000 | Past Masters series, 1981 |
032 | Aristotle | Jonathan Barnes | 12 October 2000 | Past Masters series, 1982 |
033 | Hume | A. J. Ayer | 12 October 2000 | Past Masters series, 1980 |
034 | Nietzsche | Michael Tanner | 19 October 2000 | Past Masters series, 1987 |
035 | Darwin | Jonathan Howard | 22 February 2001 | Past Masters series, 1982 |
036 | The European Union | John Pinder, Simon Usherwood | 22 February 2001 13 December 2007 (2nd ed.) 25 July 2013 (3rd ed.) | |
037 | Gandhi | Bhikhu Parekh | 22 February 2001 | Past Masters series, 1997 |
038 | Augustine | Henry Chadwick | 22 February 2001 | Past Masters series, 1986 |
039 | Intelligence | Ian J. Deary | 22 February 2001 | |
040 | Jung | Anthony Stevens | 22 February 2001 | Past Masters series, 1994 |
041 | The Buddha | Michael Carrithers | 22 February 2001 | Past Masters series, 1983 |
042 | Paul | E. P. Sanders | 22 February 2001 | Past Masters series, 1991 |
043 | Continental Philosophy | Simon Critchley | 22 February 2001 | |
044 | Galileo | Stillman Drake | 22 February 2001 | Past Masters series, 1980 |
045 | Freud | Anthony Storr | 22 February 2001 | Past Masters series, 1989 |
046 | Wittgenstein | A. C. Grayling | 22 February 2001 | Past Masters series, 1988 |
047 | Indian Philosophy | Sue Hamilton | 22 February 2001 | Non-VSI, 2000 |
048 | Rousseau | Robert Wokler | 23 August 2001 | Past Masters series, 1995 |
049 | Hegel | Peter Singer | 23 August 2001 | Past Masters series, 1983 |
050 | Kant | Roger Scruton | 23 August 2001 | Past Masters series, 1982 |
051 | Cosmology | Peter Coles | 23 August 2001 | |
052 | Drugs | Leslie Iversen | 23 August 2001 1 September 2016 (2nd ed.) | |
053 | Russian Literature | Catriona Kelly | 23 August 2001 | |
054 | The French Revolution | William Doyle | 23 August 2001 | |
055 | Philosophy | Edward Craig | 21 February 2002 | Non-VSI, 2002 |
056 | Barthes | Jonathan Culler | 21 February 2002 | Modern Masters series, Fontana Press, 1983 |
057 | Animal Rights | David DeGrazia | 21 February 2002 | |
058 | Kierkegaard | Patrick Gardiner | 21 February 2002 | Past Masters series, 1988 |
059 | Russell | A. C. Grayling | 21 February 2002 | Past Masters series, 1996 |
060 | Shakespeare | Germaine Greer | 21 February 2002 | Past Masters series, 1986 |
061 | Clausewitz | Michael Howard | 21 February 2002 | Past Masters series, 1983 |
062 | Schopenhauer | Christopher Janaway | 21 February 2002 | Past Masters series, 1994 |
063 | The Russian Revolution | S. A. Smith | 21 February 2002 | |
064 | Hobbes | Richard Tuck | 30 May 2002 | Past Masters series, 1989 |
065 | World Music | Philip V. Bohlman | 30 May 2002 | |
066 | Mathematics | Timothy Gowers | 22 August 2002 | |
067 | Philosophy of Science | Samir Okasha | 30 May 2002 28 September 2016 (2nd ed.) | |
068 | Cryptography | Fred Piper, Sean Murphy | 30 May 2002 | |
069 | Quantum Theory | John Polkinghorne | 30 May 2002 | |
070 | Spinoza | Roger Scruton | 30 May 2002 | Past Masters series, 1986 |
071 | Choice Theory | Michael Allingham | 22 August 2002 | |
072 | Architecture | Andrew Ballantyne | 22 August 2002 | |
073 | Poststructuralism | Catherine Belsey | 22 August 2002 | |
074 | Postmodernism | Christopher Butler | 10 October 2002 | |
075 | Democracy | Bernard Crick | 10 October 2002 | |
076 | Empire | Stephen Howe | 22 August 2002 | |
077 | Fascism | Kevin Passmore | 22 August 2002 29 May 2014 (2nd ed.) | |
078 | Terrorism | Charles Townshend | 10 October 2002 8 September 2011 (2nd ed.) | |
079 | Plato | Julia Annas | 13 February 2003 | |
080 | Ethics | Simon Blackburn | 8 May 2003 | Being Good: An Introduction to Ethics, 2001 rev. 2003 |
081 | Emotion | Dylan Evans | 13 February 2003 | Emotion: The Science of Sentiment, 2001 |
082 | Northern Ireland | Marc Mulholland | 23 January 2003 | The Longest War: Northern Ireland's Troubled History, 2002 |
083 | Art Theory | Cynthia Freeland | 13 February 2003 | But Is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory, 2001 |
084 | Locke | John Dunn | 8 May 2003 | Past Masters series, 1984 |
085 | Modern Ireland | Senia Paseta | 27 March 2003 | |
086 | Globalization | Manfred Steger | 27 March 2003 22 January 2009 (2nd ed.) 4 April 2013 (3rd ed.) | |
087 | The Cold War | Robert J. McMahon | 27 March 2003 | |
088 | The History of Astronomy | Michael Hoskin | 8 May 2003 | |
089 | Schizophrenia | Chris Frith, Eve C. Johnstone | 22 May 2003 | |
090 | The Earth | Martin Redfern | 26 June 2003 | |
091 | Engels | Terrell Carver | 22 May 2003 | Past Masters series, 1981 |
092 | British Politics | Tony Wright | 22 May 2003 30 May 2013 (2nd ed.) | |
093 | Linguistics | P. H. Matthews | 24 April 2003 | |
094 | The Celts | Barry Cunliffe | 26 June 2003 | |
095 | Ideology | Michael Freeden | 26 June 2003 | |
096 | Prehistory | Chris Gosden | 26 June 2003 | |
097 | Political Philosophy | David Miller | 26 June 2003 | |
098 | Postcolonialism | Robert J.C. Young | 26 June 2003 | |
099 | Atheism | Julian Baggini | 26 June 2003 | |
100 | Evolution | Brian Charlesworth, Deborah Charlesworth | 26 June 2003 | |
101 | Molecules | Philip Ball | 27 November 2003 | Stories of the Invisible: A Guided Tour of Molecules, 2001 |
102 | Art History | Dana Arnold | 22 January 2004 | |
103 | Presocratic Philosophy | Catherine Osborne | 22 April 2004 | |
104 | The Elements | Philip Ball | 8 April 2004 | The Ingredients: A Guided Tour of the Elements, 2002 |
105 | Dada and Surrealism | David Hopkins | 8 April 2004 | |
106 | Egyptian Myth | Geraldine Pinch | 22 April 2004 | |
107 | Christian Art | Beth Williamson | 24 June 2004 | |
108 | Capitalism | James Fulcher | 13 May 2004 1 August 2015 (2nd ed.) | |
109 | Particle Physics | Frank Close | 13 May 2004 | |
110 | Free Will | Thomas Pink | 24 June 2004 | |
111 | Myth | Robert A. Segal | 8 July 2004 1 September 2015 (2nd ed.) | |
112 | Ancient Egypt | Ian Shaw | 22 July 2004 | |
113 | Hieroglyphs | Penelope Wilson | 12 August 2004 | Sacred Signs: Hieroglyphs in Ancient Egypt, 2003 |
114 | Medical Ethics | Tony Hope | 23 September 2004 | |
115 | Kafka | Ritchie Robertson | 28 October 2004 | |
116 | Anarchism | Colin Ward | 21 October 2004 | |
117 | Ancient Warfare | Harry Sidebottom | 25 November 2004 | |
118 | Global Warming | Mark Maslin | 25 November 2004 27 November 2008 (2nd ed.) 23 October 2014 (3rd ed.) | In the 3rd edition the title has changed to Climate Change |
119 | Christianity | Linda Woodhead | 25 November 2004 4 September 2014 (2nd ed.) | |
120 | Modern Art | David Cottington | 24 February 2005 | |
121 | Consciousness | Susan Blackmore | 24 March 2005 | |
122 | Foucault | Gary Gutting | 24 March 2005 | |
123 | The Spanish Civil War | Helen Graham | 24 March 2005 | |
124 | The Marquis de Sade | John Phillips | 28 July 2005 | |
125 | Habermas | Gordon Finlayson | 26 May 2005 | |
126 | Socialism | Michael Newman | 28 July 2005 | |
127 | Dreaming | J. Allan Hobson | 21 April 2005 | Dreaming: An Introduction to the Science of Sleep, 2002 |
128 | Dinosaurs | David Norman | 28 July 2005 | |
129 | Renaissance Art | Geraldine A. Johnson | 21 April 2005 | |
130 | Buddhist Ethics | Damien Keown | 23 June 2005 | |
131 | Tragedy | Adrian Poole | 11 August 2005 | |
132 | Sikhism | Eleanor Nesbitt | 22 September 2005 1 July 2016 (2nd ed.) | |
133 | The History of Time | Leofranc Holford-Strevens | 11 August 2005 | |
134 | Nationalism | Steven Grosby | 8 September 2005 | |
135 | The World Trade Organization | Amrita Narlikar | 8 September 2005 | |
136 | Design | John Heskett | 23 June 2005 | Toothpicks and Logos: Design in Everyday Life, 2002 |
137 | The Vikings | Julian D. Richards | 8 September 2005 | |
138 | Fossils | Keith Thomson | 13 October 2005 | |
139 | Journalism | Ian Hargreaves | 15 September 2005 28 August 2014 (2nd ed.) | Journalism: Truth or Dare?, 2003 |
140 | The Crusades | Christopher Tyerman | 13 October 2005 | Fighting for Christendom: Holy War and the Crusades, 2004 |
141 | Feminism | Margaret Walters | 27 October 2005 | |
142 | Human Evolution | Bernard Wood | 3 November 2005 | |
143 | The Dead Sea Scrolls | Timothy Lim | 24 November 2005 | |
144 | The Brain | Michael O'Shea | 8 December 2005 | |
145 | Global Catastrophes | Bill McGuire | 26 January 2006 28 August 2014 (2nd ed.) | A Guide to the End of the World: Everything You Never Wanted to Know, 2002 |
146 | Contemporary Art | Julian Stallabrass | 23 March 2006 | Art Incorporated: The Story of Contemporary Art, 2004 |
147 | Philosophy of Law | Raymond Wacks | 18 May 2006 27 February 2014 (2nd ed.) | |
148 | The Renaissance | Jerry Brotton | 27 April 2006 | The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo, 2002 |
149 | Anglicanism | Mark Chapman | 22 June 2006 | |
150 | The Roman Empire | Christopher Kelly | 24 August 2006 | |
151 | Photography | Steven Edwards | 24 August 2006 | |
152 | Psychiatry | Tom Burns | 21 September 2006 | |
153 | Existentialism | Thomas Flynn | 12 October 2006 | |
154 | The First World War | Michael Howard | 25 January 2007 | Non-VSI, 2002 |
155 | Fundamentalism | Malise Ruthven | 25 January 2007 | Fundamentalism: The Search for Meaning, 2004 |
156 | Economics | Partha Dasgupta | 22 February 2007 | |
157 | International Migration | Khalid Koser | 22 February 2007 1 July 2016 (2nd ed.) | |
158 | Newton | Rob Iliffe | 25 January 2007 | |
159 | Chaos | Lenny Smith | 22 February 2007 | |
160 | African History | John Parker, Richard Rathbone | 22 March 2007 | |
161 | Racism | Ali Rattansi | 22 March 2007 | |
162 | Kabbalah | Joseph Dan | 30 August 2007 | Non-VSI, 2006 |
163 | Human Rights | Andrew Clapham | 28 June 2007 1 February 2016 (2nd ed.) | |
164 | International Relations | Paul Wilkinson | 26 July 2007 | |
165 | The American Presidency | Charles O. Jones | 11 October 2007 1 July 2016 (2nd ed.) | |
166 | The Great Depression and New Deal | Eric Rauchway | 24 April 2008 | |
167 | Classical Mythology | Helen Morales | 23 August 2007 | |
168 | The New Testament as Literature | Kyle Keefer | 27 November 2008 | |
169 | American Political Parties and Elections | L. Sandy Maisel | 27 September 2007 8 July 2016 (2nd ed.) | |
170 | Bestsellers | John Sutherland | 25 October 2007 | |
171 | Geopolitics | Klaus Dodds | 25 October 2007 26 June 2014 (2nd ed.) | |
172 | Antisemitism | Steven Beller | 22 November 2007 1 December 2015 (2nd ed.) | |
173 | Game Theory | Ken Binmore | 25 October 2007 | |
174 | HIV/AIDS | Alan Whiteside | 24 January 2008 | |
175 | Documentary Film | Patricia Aufderheide | 24 January 2008 | |
176 | Modern China | Rana Mitter | 28 February 2008 1 April 2016 (2nd ed.) | |
177 | The Quakers | Pink Dandelion | 28 February 2008 | |
178 | German Literature | Nicholas Boyle | 28 February 2008 | |
179 | Nuclear Weapons | Joseph M. Siracusa | 20 March 2008 23 April 2015 (2nd ed.) | |
180 | Law | Raymond Wacks | 27 March 2008 1 February 2016 (2nd ed.) | |
181 | The Old Testament | Michael Coogan | 22 May 2008 | |
182 | Galaxies | John Gribbin | 27 March 2008 | |
183 | Mormonism | Richard Bushman | 26 June 2008 | |
184 | Religion in America | Timothy Beal | 25 September 2008 | |
185 | Geography | John A. Matthews, David T. Herbert | 22 May 2008 | |
186 | The Meaning of Life | Terry Eagleton | 24 April 2008 | Non-VSI, 2007 |
187 | Sexuality | Veronique Mottier | 24 April 2008 | |
188 | Nelson Mandela | Elleke Boehmer | 17 July 2008 | |
189 | Science and Religion | Thomas Dixon | 24 July 2008 | |
190 | Relativity | Russell Stannard | 24 July 2008 | |
191 | The History of Medicine | William Bynum | 31 July 2008 | |
192 | Citizenship | Richard Bellamy | 25 September 2008 | |
193 | The History of Life | Michael J. Benton | 27 November 2008 | |
194 | Memory | Jonathan K. Foster | 6 November 2008 | |
195 | Autism | Uta Frith | 23 October 2008 | |
196 | Statistics | David J. Hand | 23 October 2008 | |
197 | Scotland | Rab Houston | 27 November 2008 | |
198 | Catholicism | Gerald O'Collins | 27 November 2008 | |
199 | The United Nations | Jussi M. Hanhimäki | 30 October 2008 2 June 2015 (2nd ed.) | |
200 | Free Speech | Nigel Warburton | 26 February 2009 | |
201 | The Apocryphal Gospels | Paul Foster | 26 February 2009 | |
202 | Modern Japan | Christopher Goto-Jones | 23 April 2009 | |
203 | Lincoln | Allen C. Guelzo | 26 February 2009 | |
204 | Superconductivity | Stephen J. Blundell | 28 May 2009 | |
205 | Nothing | Frank Close | 25 June 2009 | The Void, 2007 |
206 | Biography | Hermione Lee | 9 July 2009 | |
207 | The Soviet Union | Stephen Lovell | 23 July 2009 | |
208 | Writing and Script | Andrew Robinson | 27 August 2009 | |
209 | Communism | Leslie Holmes | 27 August 2009 | |
210 | Fashion | Rebecca Arnold | 22 October 2009 | |
211 | Forensic Science | Jim Fraser | 25 February 2010 | |
212 | Puritanism | Francis J. Bremer | 24 September 2009 | |
213 | The Reformation | Peter Marshall | 22 October 2009 | |
214 | Thomas Aquinas | Fergus Kerr | 5 November 2009 | |
215 | Deserts | Nick Middleton | 26 November 2009 | |
216 | The Norman Conquest | George Garnett | 26 November 2009 | |
217 | Biblical Archaeology | Eric H. Cline | 26 November 2009 | |
218 | The Reagan Revolution | Gil Troy | 3 December 2009 | |
219 | The Book of Mormon | Terryl Givens | 21 January 2010 | |
220 | Islamic History | Adam J. Silverstein | 21 January 2010 | |
221 | Privacy | Raymond Wacks | 21 January 2010 26 March 2015 (2nd ed.) | |
222 | Neoliberalism | Manfred Steger, Ravi K. Roy | 21 January 2010 | |
223 | Progressivism | Walter Nugent | 25 February 2010 | |
224 | Epidemiology | Rodolfo Saracci | 25 February 2010 | |
225 | Information | Luciano Floridi | 25 February 2010 | |
226 | The Laws of Thermodynamics | Peter Atkins | 25 March 2010 | Four Laws That Drive the Universe, 2007 |
227 | Innovation | Mark Dodgson, David Gann | 25 March 2010 | |
228 | Witchcraft | Malcolm Gaskill | 25 March 2010 | |
229 | The New Testament | Luke Timothy Johnson | 22 April 2010 | |
230 | French Literature | John D. Lyons | 22 April 2010 | |
231 | Film Music | Kathryn Kalinak | 27 May 2010 | |
232 | Druids | Barry Cunliffe | 27 May 2010 | |
233 | German Philosophy | Andrew Bowie | 27 May 2010 | |
234 | Advertising | Winston Fletcher | 24 June 2010 | |
235 | Forensic Psychology | David Canter | 17 June 2010 | |
236 | Modernism | Christopher Butler | 29 July 2010 | |
237 | Leadership | Keith Grint | 29 July 2010 | |
238 | Christian Ethics | D. Stephen Long | 29 July 2010 | |
239 | Tocqueville | Harvey Mansfield | 24 June 2010 | |
240 | Landscapes and Geomorphology | Andrew Goudie, Heather Viles | 26 August 2010 | |
241 | Spanish Literature | Jo Labanyi | 26 August 2010 | |
242 | Diplomacy | Joseph M. Siracusa | 26 August 2010 | |
243 | North American Indians | Theda Perdue, Michael D. Green | 26 August 2010 | |
244 | The U.S. Congress | Donald Ritchie | 10 June 2010 3 August 2016 (2nd ed.) | |
245 | Romanticism | Michael Ferber | 23 September 2010 | |
246 | Utopianism | Lyman Tower Sargent | 23 September 2010 | |
247 | The Blues | Elijah Wald | 24 June 2010 | |
248 | Keynes | Robert Skidelsky | 7 October 2010 | |
249 | English Literature | Jonathan Bate | 7 October 2010 | |
250 | Agnosticism | Robin LePoidevin | 28 October 2010 | |
251 | Aristocracy | William Doyle | 25 November 2010 | |
252 | Martin Luther | Scott H. Hendrix | 21 October 2010 | |
253 | Michael Faraday | Frank A.J.L. James | 25 November 2010 | |
254 | Planets | David A. Rothery | 25 November 2010 | |
255 | Pentecostalism | William K. Kay | 27 January 2011 | |
256 | Humanism | Stephen Law | 27 January 2011 | |
257 | Folk Music | Mark Slobin | 24 February 2011 | |
258 | Late Antiquity | Gillian Clark | 24 February 2011 | |
259 | Genius | Andrew Robinson | 24 February 2011 | |
260 | Numbers | Peter M. Higgins | 24 February 2011 | |
261 | Muhammad | Jonathan A.C. Brown | 24 March 2011 | |
262 | Beauty | Roger Scruton | 24 March 2011 | Non-VSI, 2009 |
263 | Critical Theory | Stephen Eric Bronner | 5 May 2011 | |
264 | Organizations | Mary Jo Hatch | 24 March 2011 | |
265 | Early Music | Thomas Forrest Kelly | 9 June 2011 | |
266 | The Scientific Revolution | Lawrence M. Principe | 28 April 2011 | |
267 | Cancer | Nick James | 26 May 2011 | |
268 | Nuclear Power | Maxwell Irvine | 26 May 2011 | |
269 | Paganism | Owen Davies | 26 May 2011 | |
270 | Risk | Baruch Fischhoff, John Kadvany | 26 May 2011 | |
271 | Science Fiction | David Seed | 23 June 2011 | |
272 | Herodotus | Jennifer T. Roberts | 23 June 2011 | |
273 | Conscience | Paul Strohm | 23 June 2011 | |
274 | American Immigration | David A. Gerber | 23 June 2011 | |
275 | Jesus | Richard Bauckham | 28 July 2011 | |
276 | Viruses | Dorothy H. Crawford | 28 July 2011 | |
277 | Protestantism | Mark A. Noll | 25 August 2011 | |
278 | Derrida | Simon Glendinning | 25 August 2011 | |
279 | Madness | Andrew T. Scull | 25 August 2011 | |
280 | Developmental Biology | Lewis Wolpert | 25 August 2011 | |
281 | Dictionaries | Lynda Mugglestone | 18 August 2011 | |
282 | Global Economic History | Robert C. Allen | 15 September 2011 | |
283 | Multiculturalism | Ali Rattansi | 22 September 2011 | |
284 | Environmental Economics | Stephen Smith | 22 September 2011 | |
285 | The Cell | Terence Allen, Graham Cowling | 29 September 2011 | |
286 | Ancient Greece | Paul Cartledge | 27 October 2011 | |
287 | Angels | David Albert Jones | 27 October 2011 | |
288 | Children's Literature | Kimberley Reynolds | 6 October 2011 | |
289 | The Periodic Table | Eric R. Scerri | 27 October 2011 | |
290 | Modern France | Vanessa R. Schwartz | 27 October 2011 | |
291 | Reality | Jan Westerhoff | 24 November 2011 | |
292 | The Computer | Darrel Ince | 24 November 2011 | |
293 | The Animal Kingdom | Peter Holland | 24 November 2011 | |
294 | Colonial Latin American Literature | Rolena Adorno | 24 November 2011 | |
295 | Sleep | Steven W. Lockley, Russell G. Foster | 22 March 2012 | |
296 | The Aztecs | David Carrasco | 26 January 2012 | |
297 | The Cultural Revolution | Richard Curt Kraus | 26 January 2012 | |
298 | Modern Latin American Literature | Roberto González Echevarría | 26 January 2012 | |
299 | Magic | Owen Davies | 26 January 2012 | |
300 | Film | Michael Wood | 26 January 2012 | |
301 | The Conquistadors | Matthew Restall, Felipe Fernández-Armesto | 23 February 2012 | |
302 | Chinese Literature | Sabina Knight | 23 February 2012 | |
303 | Stem Cells | Jonathan Slack | 23 February 2012 | |
304 | Italian Literature | Peter Hainsworth, David Robey | 23 February 2012 | |
305 | The History of Mathematics | Jacqueline Stedall | 23 February 2012 | |
306 | The U.S. Supreme Court | Linda Greenhouse | 22 March 2012 | |
307 | Plague | Paul Slack | 22 March 2012 | |
308 | Russian History | Geoffrey Hosking | 29 March 2012 | |
309 | Engineering | David Blockley | 22 March 2012 | |
310 | Probability | John Haigh | 26 April 2012 | |
311 | Rivers | Nick Middleton | 26 April 2012 | |
312 | Plants | Timothy Walker | 26 April 2012 | |
313 | Anaesthesia | Aidan O'Donnell | 26 April 2012 | |
314 | The Mongols | Morris Rossabi | 26 April 2012 | |
315 | The Devil | Darren Oldridge | 31 May 2012 | |
316 | Objectivity | Stephen Gaukroger | 24 May 2012 | |
317 | Magnetism | Stephen J. Blundell | 28 June 2012 | |
318 | Anxiety | Daniel Freeman, Jason Freeman | 31 May 2012 | |
319 | Australia | Kenneth Morgan | 31 May 2012 | |
320 | Languages | Stephen Anderson | 28 June 2012 | |
321 | Magna Carta | Nicholas Vincent | 28 June 2012 | |
322 | Stars | Andrew King | 26 July 2012 | |
323 | The Antarctic | Klaus Dodds | 26 July 2012 | |
324 | Radioactivity | Claudio Tuniz | 26 July 2012 | |
325 | Trust | Katherine Hawley | 23 August 2012 | |
326 | Metaphysics | Stephen Mumford | 30 August 2012 | |
327 | The Roman Republic | David M. Gwynn | 30 August 2012 | |
328 | Borders | Alexander C. Diener, Joshua Hagen | 27 September 2012 | |
329 | The Gothic | Nick Groom | 27 September 2012 | |
330 | Robotics | Alan Winfield | 27 September 2012 | |
331 | Civil Engineering | David Muir Wood | 27 September 2012 | |
332 | The Orchestra | D. Kern Holoman | 25 October 2012 | |
333 | Governance | Mark Bevir | 25 October 2012 | |
334 | American History | Paul S. Boyer | 9 August 2012 | |
335 | Networks | Guido Caldarelli, Michele Catanzaro | 25 October 2012 | |
336 | Spirituality | Philip Sheldrake | 29 November 2012 | |
337 | Work | Stephen Fineman | 29 November 2012 | |
338 | Martyrdom | Jolyon Mitchell | 29 November 2012 | |
339 | Colonial America | Alan Taylor | 29 November 2012 | |
340 | Rastafari | Ennis B. Edmonds | 20 December 2012 | |
341 | Comedy | Matthew Bevis | 20 December 2012 | |
342 | The Avant-Garde | David Cottington | 31 January 2013 | |
343 | Thought | Tim Bayne | 31 January 2013 | |
344 | The Napoleonic Wars | Mike Rapport | 31 January 2013 | |
345 | Medical Law | Charles Foster | 28 February 2013 | |
346 | Rhetoric | Richard Toye | 28 March 2013 | |
347 | Education | Gary Thomas | 28 March 2013 | |
348 | Mao | Delia Davin | 25 April 2013 | |
349 | The British Constitution | Martin Loughlin | 25 April 2013 | |
350 | American Politics | Richard M. Valelly | 28 March 2013 | |
351 | The Silk Road | James A. Millward | 26 April 2013 | |
352 | Bacteria | Sebastian G. B. Amyes | 30 May 2013 | |
353 | Symmetry | Ian Stewart | 30 May 2013 | |
354 | Marine Biology | Philip V. Mladenov | 26 September 2013 | |
355 | The British Empire | Ashley Jackson | 30 May 2013 | |
356 | The Trojan War | Eric H. Cline | 30 May 2013 | |
357 | Malthus | Donald Winch | 27 June 2013 | |
358 | Climate | Mark Maslin | 27 June 2013 | |
359 | The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict | Martin Bunton | 29 August 2013 | |
360 | Happiness | Daniel M. Haybron | 29 August 2013 | |
361 | Diaspora | Kevin Kenny | 25 July 2013 | |
362 | Contemporary Fiction | Robert Eaglestone | 25 July 2013 | |
363 | Modern War | Richard English | 25 July 2013 | |
364 | The Beats | David Sterritt | 25 July 2013 | |
365 | Sociolinguistics | John Edwards | 25 July 2013 | |
366 | Food | John Krebs | 26 September 2013 | |
367 | Fractals | Kenneth Falconer | 26 September 2013 | |
368 | Management | John Hendry | 24 October 2013 | |
369 | International Security | Christopher S. Browning | 24 October 2013 | |
370 | Astrobiology | David C. Catling | 24 October 2013 | |
371 | Causation | Stephen Mumford, Rani Lill Anjum | 28 November 2013 | |
372 | Entrepreneurship | Paul Westhead, Mike Wright | 28 November 2013 | |
373 | Tibetan Buddhism | Matthew T. Kapstein | 24 October 2013 | |
374 | The Ancient Near East | Amanda H. Podany | 26 December 2013 | |
375 | American Legal History | G. Edward White | 28 November 2013 | |
376 | Ethnomusicology | Timothy Rice | 23 January 2014 | |
377 | African Religions | Jacob K. Olupona | 13 March 2014 | |
378 | Humour | Noël Carroll | 23 January 2014 | |
379 | Family Law | Jonathan Herring | 27 February 2014 | |
380 | The Ice Age | Jamie Woodward | 30 January 2014 | |
381 | Revolutions | Jack A. Goldstone | 26 December 2013 | |
382 | Classical Literature | William Allan | 27 March 2014 | |
383 | Accounting | Christopher Nobes | 27 March 2014 | |
384 | Teeth | Peter S. Ungar | 27 March 2014 | |
385 | Physical Chemistry | Peter Atkins | 24 April 2014 | |
386 | Microeconomics | Avinash Dixit | 24 April 2014 | |
387 | Landscape Architecture | Ian Thompson | 29 May 2014 | |
388 | The Eye | Michael F. Land | 29 May 2014 | |
389 | The Etruscans | Christopher Smith | 29 May 2014 | |
390 | Nutrition | David Bender | 26 June 2014 | |
391 | Coral Reefs | Charles Sheppard | 26 June 2014 | |
392 | Complexity | John H. Holland | 24 July 2014 | |
393 | Alexander the Great | Hugh Bowden | 24 July 2014 | |
394 | Hormones | Martin Luck | 24 July 2014 | |
395 | Confucianism | Daniel K. Gardner | 26 June 2014 | |
396 | American Slavery | Heather Andrea Williams | 25 September 2014 | |
397 | African American Religion | Eddie S. Glaude Jr. | 28 August 2014 | |
398 | God | John Bowker | 25 September 2014 | |
399 | Genes | Jonathan Slack | 25 September 2014 | |
400 | Knowledge | Jennifer Nagel | 25 September 2014 | |
401 | Structural Engineering | David Blockley | 25 September 2014 | |
402 | Theatre | Marvin Carlson | 23 October 2014 | |
403 | Ancient Egyptian Art and Architecture | Christina Riggs | 23 October 2014 | |
404 | The Middle Ages | Miri Rubin | 23 October 2014 | |
405 | Materials | Christopher Hall | 23 October 2014 | |
406 | Minerals | David Vaughan | 23 October 2014 | |
407 | Peace | Oliver P. Richmond | 27 November 2014 | |
408 | Iran | Ali Ansari | 27 November 2014 | |
409 | World War II | Gerhard L. Weinberg | 13 November 2014 | |
410 | Child Psychology | Usha Goswami | 27 November 2014 | |
411 | Sport | Mike Cronin | 27 November 2014 | |
412 | Exploration | Stewart A. Weaver | 12 March 2015 | |
413 | Microbiology | Nicholas P. Money | 4 December 2014 | |
414 | Corporate Social Responsibility | Jeremy Moon | 11 December 2014 | |
415 | Love | Ronald de Sousa | 8 January 2015 | |
416 | Psychotherapy | Tom Burns (Author), Eva Burns-Lundgren (Editor) | 22 January 2015 | |
417 | Chemistry | Peter Atkins | 26 February 2015 | |
418 | Human Anatomy | Leslie Klenerman | 26 February 2015 | |
419 | The American West | Stephen Aron | 11 December 2014 | |
420 | American Political History | Donald Critchlow | 25 December 2014 | |
421 | Ritual | Barry Stephenson | 22 January 2015 | |
422 | American Women's History | Susan Ware | 22 January 2015 | |
423 | Dante | Peter Hainsworth, David Robey | 26 February 2015 | |
424 | Ancient Assyria | Karen Radner | 26 March 2015 | |
425 | Plate Tectonics | Peter Molnar | 26 March 2015 | |
426 | Corruption | Leslie Holmes | 23 April 2015 | |
427 | Pilgrimage | Ian Reader | 23 April 2015 | |
428 | Taxation | Stephen Smith | 23 April 2015 | |
429 | Crime Fiction | Richard Bradford | 28 May 2015 | |
430 | Microscopy | Terence Allen | 1 August 2015 | |
431 | Forests | Jaboury Ghazoul | 1 August 2015 | |
432 | Social Work | Stanley Wells | 1 August 2015 | |
433 | Infectious Disease | Benjamin Bolker and Marta Wayne | 1 August 2015 | |
434 | Liberalism | Michael Freeden | 1 August 2015 | |
435 | Psychoanalysis | Daniel Pick | 1 November 2015 | |
436 | The American Revolution | Robert J. Allison | 31 July 2015 | |
437 | Byzantium | Peter Sarris | 1 October 2015 | |
438 | Nuclear Physics | Frank Close | 1 October 2015 | |
439 | Social Psychology | Richard J. Crisp | 1 November 2015 | |
440 | Water | John Finney | 1 November 2015 | |
441 | Criminal Justice | Julian V. Roberts | 1 November 2015 | |
442 | Medieval Literature | Elaine Trehame | 1 December 2015 | |
443 | The Enlightenment | John Robertson | 1 December 2015 | |
444 | Mountains | Martin F. Price | 1 December 2015 | |
445 | Philosophy in the Islamic World | Peter Adamson | 1 November 2015 | |
446 | Light | Ian A. Walmsley | 1 December 2015 | |
447 | Algebra | Peter M. Higgins | 1 December 2015 | |
448 | Hermeneutics | Jens Zimmermann | 15 December 2015 | |
449 | International Law | Vaughan Lowe | 1 February 2016 | |
450 | Moons | David Rothery | 1 January 2016 | |
451 | Sound | Mike Goldsmith | 10 February 2016 | |
452 | Epicureanism | Catherine Wilson | 1 February 2016 | |
453 | Black Holes | Katherine Blundell | 1 February 2016 | |
454 | The Body | Chris Shilling | 1 March 2016 | |
455 | Fungi | Nicolas P. Money | 1 April 2016 | |
456 | The History of Chemistry | William H. Brock | 1 April 2016 | |
457 | Environmental Politics | Andrew Dobson | 1 March 2016 | |
458 | Modern Drama | Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr | 1 May 2016 | |
459 | The Mexican Revolution | Alan Knight | 1 April 2016 | |
460 | The Founding Fathers | Richard B. Bernstein | 14 December 2015 | |
461 | Hollywood | Peter Decherney | 27 January 2016 | |
462 | Goethe | Ritchie Robertson | 1 April 2016 | |
463 | Medieval Philosophy | John Marenbon | 1 April 2016 | |
464 | Earth System Science | Tim Lenton | 1 May 2016 | |
465 | Slang | Jonathon Green | 1 May 2016 | |
466 | Computer Science | Subrata Dasgupta | 1 June 2016 | |
467 | Shakespeare's Comedies | Bart van Es | 1 June 2016 | |
468 | The Welfare State | David Garland | 1 June 2016 | |
469 | Crystallography | A. M. Glazer | 1 June 2016 | |
470 | Astrophysics | James Binney | 1 June 2016 | |
471 | BRICS | Andrew F. Cooper | 1 July 2016 | |
472 | Decolonization | Dane Kennedy | 2 May 2016 | |
473 | Agriculture | Paul Brassley, Richard Soffe | 1 July 2016 | |
474 | Combinatorics | Robin Wilson | 1 July 2016 | |
The Hebrew Bible As Literature | Tod Linafelt | 10 May 2016 | ||
The Harlem Renaissance | Cheryl A. Wall | 8 July 2016 | ||
Copernicus | Owen Gingerich | 1 August 2016 | ||
Adolescence | Peter Smith | 1 August 2016 | ||
Isotopes | Rob Ellam | 1 August 2016 | ||
Islamic Ethics | Tariq Ramadan | 1 September 2016 | ||
Circadian Rhythms | Russell Foster, Leon Kreitzman | 1 September 2016 | ||
Learning | Mark Haselgrove | 1 September 2016 | ||
Translation | Matthew Reynolds | 1 September 2016 | ||
Savannas | Peter Furley | 1 September 2016 | ||
Public Health | Virginia Berridge | 1 October 2016 | ||
Blood | Christopher Cooper | 1 October 2016 | ||
Public Administration | Stella Z. Theodoulou, Ravi K. Roy | 1 October 2016 | ||
Babylonia | Trevor Bryce | 1 October 2016 | ||
Indian Cinema | Ashish Rajadhyaska | 1 October 2016 | ||
Military Justice | Eugene R. Fidell | 3 October 2016 | ||
War and Technology | Alex Roland | 3 October 2016 | ||
Molecular Biology | Aysha Divan, Janice Royds | 1 November 2016 | ||
The History of Cinema | Geoffrey Nowell-Smith | 1 November 2016 | ||
Future print publications in UK
- American Indian Literature (Sean Teuton)
- Voltaire (Nicholas Cronk)
- Banking (John O. S. Wilson, John Goddard)
- The Common Law (Joshua Getzler)
- British Cinema (Charles Barr)
- Saints (Simon Yarrow)
- Populism (Cas Mudde and Cristsbal Rovia Kalwasser)
- Pain (Rob Bodice)
- Telescopes (Geoffrey Cottrell)
- The Future (Jennifer Gidley)
- Calvinism (Jon Balserak)
- Ageing (Nancy Pachana)
- HIV/AIDS (Alan Whiteside) (2nd edition)
- Home (Michael Allen Fox)
- Intellectual Property (Siva Vaidhyanathan)
- Military Strategy (Antuilio J. Echevarria)
- Modern Italy (Anna Cento Bull)
- Eugenics (Phillipa Levine)
- Asian American History (Madeline Hsu)
- Pandemics (Christian W. McMillen)
- Rocks (Jan Zalasiewicz)
- Cognitive Neuroscience (Richard Passingham)
- Measurement (David J. Hand) – the 500th book in the series (published 1 Dec 2016)
- Zionism (Michael Stanislawski)
- Leibniz (Maria Rosa Antognazza)
Boxed sets
Six boxed sets, each with a different theme, were released in 2006. Five books from the series on the given theme were included, plus the series' promotional volume A Very Short Introduction to Everything.
- The Ballot Box
- Politics (008)
- Capitalism (108)
- Democracy (075)
- Socialism (126)
- Fascism (077)
- The Brain Box
- Evolution (100)
- Consciousness (121)
- Intelligence (039)
- Cosmology (051)
- Quantum Theory (069)
- The Thought Box
- Hegel (049)
- Marx (028)
- Nietzsche (034)
- Schopenhauer (062)
- Kierkegaard (058)
- The Basics Box
- Philosophy (055)
- Mathematics (066)
- History (016)
- Politics (008)
- Psychology (006)
- The Boom Box
- Ancient Warfare (117)
- Cold War (087)
- Crusades (140)
- French Revolution (054)
- Spanish Civil War (123)
- The Picture Box
- Art History (102)
- Renaissance Art (129)
- Modern Art (120)
- Architecture (072)
- Design (136)
Design
The body text is set in Miller in some books, and others are set in OUP Argo; the front page title (and other book titles within the book) is set in Lithos; the sanserif used for headings and in other places is OUP Argo. The page size is 110 mm × 169 mm, which at the approximate ratio 1:1.539 makes it the pentagon page.[7]
References
- ↑ "Very Short Introductions". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
- ↑ "Very Short Introductions – General Series". Oxford University Press (UK). Retrieved 31 March 2015.
- ↑ "Very Short Introductions". Oxford University Press.
- ↑ "Languages: A Very Short Introduction". Oxford University Press (UK). Retrieved 2011-12-03.
- ↑ Glendinning, Simon (2011). Derrida: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. ii. ISBN 978-0-19-280345-0.
- ↑ "Very Short Introductions". Oxford University Press (UK). Retrieved 2015-02-16.
- ↑ Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style, p. 148.