Very Short Introductions
Very Short Introductions (VSI) is a book series published by the Oxford University Press (OUP). The books are concise introductions to particular subjects, intended for a general audience but written by experts. Most are under 200 pages long. While authors may present personal viewpoints, the books are meant to be "balanced and complete" as well as thought provoking.[1]
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| Author | Various |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Published | 1995–present |
| Media type | Print (paperback), e-book |
| No. of books | 700+ (List of books) |
| OCLC | 911799103 |
| Website | www |
The series began in 1995, and by March 2023 there were 730 titles, published or announced.[2][3] The books have been commercially successful,[4] and have been published in more than 25 languages.[5] Institutions can subscribe to an online service to allow their users to read the books.[6]
Most of the books have been written specifically for the series, but around 60 were recycled from earlier OUP publications: several had been in OUP's Past Masters series,[7] and numbers 17–24 used chapters from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain (1984).
Each book of the series is numbered on its spine. These numbers broadly, but not exactly, correspond with the publication dates.
Reception
Writing in the New Yorker in 2017, Kathryn Schulz praised the diversity of topics covered but noted significant gaps in coverage, including an absence of women and people of colour in its 54 biographies and "a British bias in the choice of subjects".[7] Schulz also described the quality of the books as variable, favourably comparing the books written about Teeth, Deserts and Robotics against those written on Mountains, Home and Archaeology.[7]
In the Fortnightly Review, Michelene Wandor said that the series "successfully bridged the gap between academic and trade publishing" and reviewed six volumes.[8]
List of books in the series
| # on spine | Topic | Author(s) | UK print publication date | Original publication | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | Classics | Mary Beard, John Henderson | 24 February 2000 | 1995 | Classical Studies |
| 002 | Music | Nicholas Cook | 24 February 2000 25 February 2021 (2nd ed.) | 1998 | Music |
| 003 | Buddhism | Damien Keown | 24 February 2000 28 February 2013 (2nd ed.) | 1996 | Religion |
| 004 | Literary Theory | Jonathan Culler | 24 February 2000 28 July 2011 (2nd ed.) | 1997 | Literature/Philosophy |
| 005 | Hinduism | Kim Knott | 24 February 2000 1 May 2016 (2nd ed.) | 1998 | Religion |
| 006 | Psychology | Gillian Butler, Freda McManus | 24 February 2000 23 January 2014 (2nd ed.) | 1998 | Psychology |
| 007 | Islam | Malise Ruthven | 24 February 2000 26 January 2012 (2nd ed.) | 1997 | Religion |
| 008 | Politics | Kenneth Minogue | 24 February 2000 | 1995 | Politics |
| 009 | Theology | David F. Ford | 24 February 2000 24 October 2013 (2nd ed.) | 1999 | Religion |
| 010 | Archaeology | Paul Bahn (illustrator: Bill Tidy) | 24 February 2000 30 August 2012 (2nd ed.) | 1996 | Archaeology |
| 011 | Judaism | Norman Solomon | 24 February 2000 28 August 2014 (2nd ed.) | 1996 | Religion |
| 012 | Sociology | Steve Bruce | 24 February 2000 27 September 2018 (2nd ed.) | 1999 | Sociology |
| 013 | The Koran | Michael Cook | 24 February 2000 | Religion | |
| 014 | The Bible | John Riches | 24 February 2000 28 October 2021 (2nd ed.) | Religion | |
| 015 | Social and Cultural Anthropology | John Monaghan, Peter Just | 24 February 2000 | Anthropology | |
| 016 | History | John Arnold | 24 February 2000 | History | |
| 017 | Roman Britain | Peter Salway | 10 August 2000 1 August 2015 (2nd ed.) | Chapter from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984 | History |
| 018 | The Anglo-Saxon Age | John Blair | 10 August 2000 | Chapter from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984 | History |
| 019 | Medieval Britain | John Gillingham, Ralph A. Griffiths | 10 August 2000 | Chapters from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984 | History |
| 020 | The Tudors | John Guy | 10 August 2000 29 August 2013 (2nd ed.) | Chapter from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984 | History |
| 021 | Stuart Britain | John Morrill | 10 August 2000 | Chapter from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984 | History |
| 022 | Eighteenth-Century Britain | Paul Langford | 10 August 2000 | Chapter from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984 | History |
| 023 | Nineteenth-Century Britain | Christopher Harvie, H. C. G. Matthew | 10 August 2000 | Chapters from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984 | History |
| 024 | Twentieth-Century Britain | Kenneth O. Morgan | 10 August 2000 | Chapter from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984 | History |
| 025 | Heidegger | Michael Inwood | 12 October 2000 24 January 2019 (2nd ed.) | Past Masters series, 1997 | Philosophy |
| 026 | Ancient philosophy | Julia Annas | 12 October 2000 | Classical Studies/History/Philosophy | |
| 027 | Socrates | C. C. W. Taylor | 12 October 2000 22 August 2019 (2nd ed.) | Past Masters series, 1998 | Classical Studies/Philosophy |
| 028 | Marx | Peter Singer | 12 October 2000 22 March 2018 (2nd ed.) | Past Masters series, 1980 | Philosophy |
| 029 | Logic | Graham Priest | 12 October 2000 26 October 2017 (2nd ed.) | Mathematics/Philosophy | |
| 030 | Descartes | Tom Sorell | 12 October 2000 | Past Masters series, 1987 | Biography/Philosophy |
| 031 | Machiavelli | Quentin Skinner | 12 October 2000 25 July 2019 (2nd ed.) | Past Masters series, 1981 | Biography/Literature/History |
| 032 | Aristotle | Jonathan Barnes | 12 October 2000 | Past Masters series, 1982 | Biography/Classical Studies/Philosophy |
| 033 | Hume | A. J. Ayer | 12 October 2000 | Past Masters series, 1980 | Philosophy |
| James Anthony Harris | 23 September 2021 | Philosophy | |||
| 034 | Nietzsche | Michael Tanner | 19 October 2000 | Past Masters series, 1987 | Biography/Philosophy |
| 035 | Darwin | Jonathan Howard | 22 February 2001 | Past Masters series, 1982 | Biography/Biological Sciences |
| 036 | The European Union | John Pinder, Simon Usherwood | 22 February 2001 13 December 2007 (2nd ed.) 25 July 2013 (3rd ed.) 25 January 2018 (4th ed.) | Politics | |
| 037 | Gandhi | Bhikhu Parekh | 22 February 2001 | Past Masters series, 1997 | Biography/History |
| 038 | Augustine | Henry Chadwick | 22 February 2001 | Past Masters series, 1986 | Biography/Philosophy/Religion |
| 039 | Intelligence | Ian J. Deary | 22 February 2001 | Psychology | |
| 040 | Jung | Anthony Stevens | 22 February 2001 | Past Masters series, 1994 | Biography/Psychology/Popular Health |
| 041 | Buddha | Michael Carrithers | 22 February 2001 | Past Masters series, 1983 | Religion/Philosophy |
| 042 | Paul | E. P. Sanders | 22 February 2001 | Past Masters series, 1991 | Biography/Religion |
| 043 | Continental philosophy | Simon Critchley | 22 February 2001 | Philosophy | |
| 044 | Galileo | Stillman Drake | 22 February 2001 | Past Masters series, 1980 | Biography/Physics |
| 045 | Freud | Anthony Storr | 22 February 2001 | Past Masters series, 1989 | Biography/Psychology/Popular Health |
| 046 | Wittgenstein | A. C. Grayling | 22 February 2001 | Past Masters series, 1988 | Philosophy/Linguistics |
| 047 | Indian philosophy | Sue Hamilton | 22 February 2001 | Non-VSI, 2000 | Philosophy/Religion |
| 048 | Rousseau | Robert Wokler | 23 August 2001 | Past Masters series, 1995 | Biography/Philosophy/Politics |
| 049 | Hegel | Peter Singer | 23 August 2001 | Past Masters series, 1983 | Biography/Philosophy |
| 050 | Kant | Roger Scruton | 23 August 2001 | Past Masters series, 1982 | Philosophy/Politics/ |
| 051 | Cosmology | Peter Coles | 23 August 2001 | Physics | |
| 052 | Drugs | Leslie Iversen | 23 August 2001 23 June 2016 (2nd ed.) | Clinical Medicine/Pharmacology | |
| 053 | Russian literature | Catriona Kelly | 23 August 2001 | ||
| 054 | The French Revolution | William Doyle | 23 August 2001 28 November 2019 (2nd ed.) | History | |
| 055 | Philosophy | Edward Craig | 21 February 2002 24 September 2020 (2nd ed.) | Non-VSI, 2002 | Philosophy |
| 056 | Barthes | Jonathan Culler | 21 February 2002 | Modern Masters series, Fontana Press, 1983 | Literature |
| 057 | Animal rights | David DeGrazia | 21 February 2002 | Philosophy | |
| 058 | Kierkegaard | Patrick Gardiner | 21 February 2002 | Past Masters series, 1988 | Philosophy |
| 059 | Russell | A. C. Grayling | 21 February 2002 | Past Masters series, 1996 | Philosophy |
| 060 | Shakespeare[n 1] | Germaine Greer | 21 February 2002 | Past Masters series, 1986 | |
| William Shakespeare[n 1] | Stanley Wells | 23 April 2015 | |||
| 061 | Clausewitz | Michael Howard | 21 February 2002 | Past Masters series, 1983 | History/Politics |
| 062 | Schopenhauer | Christopher Janaway | 21 February 2002 | Past Masters series, 1994 | Philosophy |
| 063 | The Russian Revolution | S. A. Smith | 21 February 2002 | History | |
| 064 | Hobbes | Richard Tuck | 30 May 2002 | Past Masters series, 1989 | Philosophy/Politics |
| 065 | World music | Philip V. Bohlman | 30 May 2002 23 July 2020 (2nd ed.) | Music | |
| 066 | Mathematics | Timothy Gowers | 22 August 2002 | Philosophy/Mathematics | |
| 067 | Philosophy of science | Samir Okasha | 30 May 2002 28 July 2016 (2nd ed.) | History of Science and Technology/Philosophy | |
| 068 | Cryptography | Fred Piper, Sean Murphy | 30 May 2002 | Computing/Mathematics | |
| 069 | Quantum Theory | John Polkinghorne | 30 May 2002 | Chemistry/Physics | |
| 070 | Spinoza | Roger Scruton | 30 May 2002 | Past Masters series, 1986 | Philosophy |
| 071 | Choice Theory | Michael Allingham | 22 August 2002 | Economics | |
| 072 | Architecture | Andrew Ballantyne | 22 August 2002 | Architecture | |
| 073 | Poststructuralism | Catherine Belsey | 22 August 2002 | Philosophy | |
| 074 | Postmodernism | Christopher Butler | 10 October 2002 | Philosophy | |
| 075 | Democracy | Bernard Crick | 10 October 2002 | History/Politics | |
| 076 | Empire | Stephen Howe | 22 August 2002 | History | |
| 077 | Fascism | Kevin Passmore | 22 August 2002 29 May 2014 (2nd ed.) | History/Politics | |
| 078 | Terrorism | Charles Townshend | 10 October 2002 8 September 2011 (2nd ed.) 24 May 2018 (3rd ed.) | Terrorism and National Security Law/ Warfare and Defence | |
| 079 | Plato | Julia Annas | 13 February 2003 | Classical Studies/Philosophy | |
| 080 | Ethics | Simon Blackburn | 8 May 2003 28 January 2021 (2nd ed.) | Being Good: An Introduction to Ethics, 2001 rev. 2003 | Philosophy |
| 081 | Emotion | Dylan Evans | 13 February 2003 26 September 2019 (2nd ed.) | Emotion: The Science of Sentiment, 2001 | Anthropology/Psychology |
| 082 | Northern Ireland | Marc Mulholland | 23 January 2003 26 March 2020 (2nd ed.) | The Longest War: Northern Ireland's Troubled History, 2002 | History/Human Geography |
| 083 | Art Theory | Cynthia Freeland | 13 February 2003 | But Is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory, 2001 | Art |
| 084 | Locke | John Dunn | 8 May 2003 | Past Masters series, 1984 | Philosophy |
| 085 | Modern Ireland | Senia Paseta | 27 March 2003 | History/Human Geography | |
| 086 | Globalization | Manfred Steger | 27 March 2003 22 January 2009 (2nd ed.) 4 April 2013 (3rd ed.) 27 April 2017 (4th ed.) 28 May 2020 (5th ed.) | Economics/Politics | |
| 087 | The Cold War | Robert J. McMahon | 27 March 2003 25 February 2021 (2nd ed.) | History | |
| 088 | The History of Astronomy | Michael Hoskin | 8 May 2003 | History/History of Science and Technology/Physics | |
| 089 | Schizophrenia | Chris Frith, Eve C. Johnstone | 22 May 2003 | Psychology/Social Work | |
| 090 | The Earth | Martin Redfern | 26 June 2003 | Earth Sciences and Geography/Environment | |
| 091 | Engels | Terrell Carver | 22 May 2003 | Past Masters series, 1981 | Politics |
| 092 | British Politics | Tony Wright | 22 May 2003 30 May 2013 (2nd ed.) 25 June 2020 (3rd ed.) | Politics | |
| 093 | Linguistics | P. H. Matthews | 24 April 2003 | Linguistics | |
| 094 | The Celts | Barry Cunliffe | 26 June 2003 | History | |
| 095 | Ideology | Michael Freeden | 26 June 2003 | Politics | |
| 096 | Prehistory | Chris Gosden | 26 June 2003 28 June 2018 (2nd ed.) | Archaeology/Art/History | |
| 097 | Political philosophy | David Miller | 26 June 2003 | Philosophy | |
| 098 | Postcolonialism | Robert J.C. Young | 26 June 2003 22 October 2020 (2nd ed.) | ||
| 099 | Atheism | Julian Baggini | 26 June 2003 26 August 2021 (2nd ed.) | Religion | |
| 100 | Evolution | Brian Charlesworth, Deborah Charlesworth | 26 June 2003 6 July 2017 (2nd ed.) | Anthropology/Biological Sciences | |
| 101 | Molecules | Philip Ball | 27 November 2003 | Stories of the Invisible: A Guided Tour of Molecules, 2001 | Biological Sciences/Chemistry |
| 102 | Art history | Dana Arnold | 22 January 2004 | Art/History | |
| 103 | Presocratic Philosophy | Catherine Osborne | 22 April 2004 | Classical Studies/Philosophy | |
| 104 | The Elements | Philip Ball | 8 April 2004 | The Ingredients: A Guided Tour of the Elements, 2002 | Chemistry/History of Science and Technology |
| 105 | Dada and Surrealism | David Hopkins | 8 April 2004 | Art | |
| 106 | Egyptian Myth | Geraldine Pinch | 22 April 2004 | Classical Studies | |
| 107 | Christian art | Beth Williamson | 24 June 2004 | Religion | |
| 108 | Capitalism | James Fulcher | 13 May 2004 1 August 2015 (2nd ed.) | Politics | |
| 109 | Particle physics | Frank Close | 13 May 2004 | Physics | |
| 110 | Free will | Thomas Pink | 24 June 2004 | Philosophy | |
| 111 | Myth | Robert A. Segal | 8 July 2004 1 September 2015 (2nd ed.) | Religion | |
| 112 | Ancient Egypt | Ian Shaw | 22 July 2004 28 January 2021 (2nd ed.) | History | |
| 113 | Hieroglyphs | Penelope Wilson | 12 August 2004 | Sacred Signs: Hieroglyphs in Ancient Egypt, 2003 | Classical Studies |
| 114 | Medical ethics | Tony Hope | 23 September 2004 22 November 2018 (2nd ed.) | Philosophy/Medical Ethics | |
| 115 | Kafka | Ritchie Robertson | 28 October 2004 | ||
| 116 | Anarchism[n 2] | Colin Ward | 21 October 2004 | Politics | |
| Anarchism[n 2] | Alex Prichard | 25 November 2022 | Politics | ||
| 117 | Ancient warfare | Harry Sidebottom | 25 November 2004 | Classical Studies | |
| 118 | Global warming | Mark Maslin | 25 November 2004 27 November 2008 (2nd ed.) 23 October 2014 (3rd ed.) 19 August 2021 (4th ed.) | In the 3rd edition the title has changed to Climate change | Earth Sciences and Geography/Environment |
| 119 | Christianity | Linda Woodhead | 25 November 2004 4 September 2014 (2nd ed.) | Religion | |
| 120 | Modern art | David Cottington | 24 February 2005 | Art | |
| 121 | Consciousness | Susan Blackmore | 24 March 2005 14 September 2017 (2nd ed.) | Philosophy/Psychology | |
| 122 | Foucault | Gary Gutting | 24 March 2005 26 September 2019 (2nd ed.) | Philosophy | |
| 123 | The Spanish Civil War | Helen Graham | 24 March 2005 | History | |
| 124 | The Marquis de Sade | John Phillips | 28 July 2005 | ||
| 125 | Habermas | Gordon Finlayson | 26 May 2005 | Philosophy/Sociology | |
| 126 | Socialism | Michael Newman | 28 July 2005 24 September 2020 (2nd ed.) | Economics/History/Politics | |
| 127 | Dreaming | J. Allan Hobson | 21 April 2005 | Dreaming: An Introduction to the Science of Sleep, 2002 | Psychology |
| 128 | Dinosaurs | David Norman | 28 July 2005 28 December 2017 (2nd ed.) | Biological Sciences/Earth Sciences and Geography | |
| 129 | Renaissance Art | Geraldine A. Johnson | 21 April 2005 | Art | |
| 130 | Buddhist ethics | Damien Keown | 23 June 2005 25 June 2020 (2nd ed.) | Religion | |
| 131 | Tragedy | Adrian Poole | 11 August 2005 | Classical Studies | |
| 132 | Sikhism | Eleanor Nesbitt | 22 September 2005 28 April 2016 (2nd ed.) | Religion | |
| 133 | The History of Time | Leofranc Holford-Strevens | 11 August 2005 | History | |
| 134 | Nationalism | Steven Grosby | 8 September 2005 | Politics | |
| 135 | The World Trade Organization | Amrita Narlikar | 8 September 2005 | Economics/Politics | |
| 136 | Design | John Heskett | 23 June 2005 | Toothpicks and Logos: Design in Everyday Life, 2002 | Art |
| 137 | The Vikings | Julian D. Richards | 8 September 2005 | History | |
| 138 | Fossils | Keith Thomson | 13 October 2005 | Biological Sciences/Earth Sciences and Geography | |
| 139 | Journalism | Ian Hargreaves | 15 September 2005 28 August 2014 (2nd ed.) | Journalism: Truth or Dare?, 2003 | Journalism/Media Studies |
| 140 | The Crusades | Christopher Tyerman | 13 October 2005 | Fighting for Christendom: Holy War and the Crusades, 2004 | Religion |
| 141 | Feminism | Margaret Walters | 27 October 2005 | History/Philosophy/Sociology | |
| 142 | Human evolution | Bernard Wood | 3 November 2005 27 June 2019 (2nd ed.) | Archaeology | |
| 143 | The Dead Sea Scrolls | Timothy Lim | 24 November 2005 23 March 2017 (2nd ed.) | Religion | |
| 144 | The Brain | Michael O'Shea | 8 December 2005 | Clinical Neuroscience/Neurology/Neuroscience/Psychology | |
| 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 | Environment/Environmental Science |
| 146 | Contemporary art | Julian Stallabrass | 23 March 2006 10 December 2020 (2nd ed.) | Art Incorporated: The Story of Contemporary Art, 2004 | Art |
| 147 | Philosophy of Law | Raymond Wacks | 18 May 2006 27 February 2014 (2nd ed.) | Jurispudence and philosophy of law/Philosophy | |
| 148 | The Renaissance | Jerry Brotton | 27 April 2006 | The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo, 2002 | Art/History/Philosophy |
| 149 | Anglicanism | Mark Chapman | 22 June 2006 | Classical Studies/Religion | |
| 150 | The Roman Empire | Christopher Kelly | 24 August 2006 | Classical Studies | |
| 151 | Photography | Steven Edwards | 24 August 2006 | Art | |
| 152 | Psychiatry | Tom Burns | 21 September 2006 25 October 2018 (2nd ed.) | Psychiatry/Psychology/Social Work | |
| 153 | Existentialism | Thomas Flynn | 12 October 2006 | Philosophy | |
| 154 | The First World War | Michael Howard | 25 January 2007 | Non-VSI, 2002 | History |
| 155 | Fundamentalism | Malise Ruthven | 25 January 2007 | Fundamentalism: The Search for Meaning, 2004 | Religion |
| 156 | Economics | Partha Dasgupta | 22 February 2007 | Economics | |
| 157 | International Migration | Khalid Koser | 22 February 2007 23 June 2016 (2nd ed.) | Sociology | |
| 158 | Newton | Rob Iliffe | 25 January 2007 | History of Science and Technology/Physics/ | |
| 159 | Chaos | Lenny Smith | 22 February 2007 | Mathematics/Physics | |
| 160 | African History | John Parker, Richard Rathbone | 22 March 2007 | History | |
| 161 | Racism | Ali Rattansi | 22 March 2007 26 March 2020 (2nd ed.) | Sociology | |
| 162 | Kabbalah | Joseph Dan | 30 August 2007 | Non-VSI, 2006 | Religion |
| 163 | Human Rights | Andrew Clapham | 28 June 2007 1 February 2016 (2nd ed.) | Human Rights and Immigration/International Law/Politics/Social Work | |
| 164 | International Relations | Paul Wilkinson Christian Reus-Smit | 26 July 2007 23 April 2020 (different author) | Economics/Politics | |
| 165 | The American Presidency | Charles O. Jones | 11 October 2007 23 June 2016 (2nd ed.) | History/Politics | |
| 166 | The Great Depression and The New Deal | Eric Rauchway | 24 April 2008 | Economics/History | |
| 167 | Classical Mythology | Helen Morales | 23 August 2007 | Classical Studies/Religion | |
| 168 | The New Testament as Literature | Kyle Keefer | 27 November 2008 | Religion | |
| 169 | American Political Parties and Elections | L. Sandy Maisel | 27 September 2007 23 June 2016 (2nd ed.) | Politics | |
| 170 | Bestsellers | John Sutherland | 25 October 2007 | Literature | |
| 171 | Geopolitics | Klaus Dodds | 25 October 2007 26 June 2014 (2nd ed.) 25 July 2019 (3rd ed.) | Human Geography/Politics | |
| 172 | Antisemitism | Steven Beller | 22 November 2007 1 December 2015 (2nd ed.) | Religion | |
| 173 | Game theory | Ken Binmore | 25 October 2007 | Economics | |
| 174 | HIV/AIDS | Alan Whiteside | 24 January 2008 24 November 2016 (2nd ed.) | Clinical Medicine/Pathology | |
| 175 | Documentary film | Patricia Aufderheide | 24 January 2008 | Media Studies | |
| 176 | Modern China | Rana Mitter | 28 February 2008 1 April 2016 (2nd ed.) | History/Human Geography | |
| 177 | The Quakers | Pink Dandelion | 28 February 2008 | Religion | |
| 178 | German literature | Nicholas Boyle | 28 February 2008 | ||
| 179 | Nuclear Weapons | Joseph M. Siracusa | 20 March 2008 23 April 2015 (2nd ed.) 24 September 2020 (3rd ed.) | Physics/Politics/Warfare And Defence | |
| 180 | Law | Raymond Wacks | 27 March 2008 1 February 2016 (2nd ed.) | History/History of Law/Law and Society/Legal System and Practice | |
| 181 | The Old Testament | Michael Coogan | 22 May 2008 | Religion | |
| 182 | Galaxies | John Gribbin | 27 March 2008 | Physics | |
| 183 | Mormonism | Richard Bushman | 26 June 2008 | Religion | |
| 184 | Religion in America | Timothy Beal | 25 September 2008 | Religion | |
| 185 | Geography | John A. Matthews, David T. Herbert | 22 May 2008 | Earth Sciences and Geography/History/Human Geography | |
| 186 | The Meaning of Life | Terry Eagleton | 24 April 2008 | Non-VSI, 2007 | Religion |
| 187 | Sexuality | Veronique Mottier | 24 April 2008 | History/Sociology | |
| 188 | Nelson Mandela | Elleke Boehmer | 17 July 2008 | Biographical Studies/History/Politics | |
| 189 | Science and Religion | Thomas Dixon, Adam Shapiro | 24 July 2008 February 2022 (2nd ed.) | Religion | |
| 190 | Relativity | Russell Stannard | 24 July 2008 | Physics | |
| 191 | The History of Medicine | William Bynum | 31 July 2008 | History of Medicine | |
| 192 | Citizenship | Richard Bellamy | 25 September 2008 | Politics | |
| 193 | The History of Life | Michael J. Benton | 27 November 2008 | Biological Sciences/Earth of Sciences and Geography | |
| 194 | Memory | Jonathan K. Foster | 6 November 2008 | Neuroscience/Psychology | |
| 195 | Autism | Uta Frith | 23 October 2008 | Neuroscience/Psychology | |
| 196 | Statistics | David J. Hand | 23 October 2008 | Mathematics | |
| 197 | Scotland | Rab Houston | 27 November 2008 | History/Human Geography | |
| 198 | Catholicism | Gerald O'Collins | 27 November 2008 25 May 2017 (2nd ed.) | Religion | |
| 199 | The United Nations | Jussi M. Hanhimäki | 30 October 2008 2 June 2015 (2nd ed.) | politics | |
| 200 | Free speech | Nigel Warburton | 26 February 2009 | politics | |
| 201 | The Apocryphal Gospels | Paul Foster | 26 February 2009 | Religion | |
| 202 | Modern Japan | Christopher Goto-Jones | 23 April 2009 | history/politics | |
| 203 | Lincoln | Allen C. Guelzo | 26 February 2009 | history – U.S. | |
| 204 | Superconductivity | Stephen J. Blundell | 28 May 2009 | physics | |
| 205 | Nothing | Frank Close | 25 June 2009 | The Void, 2007 | |
| 206 | Biography | Hermione Lee | 9 July 2009 | Literature | |
| 207 | The Soviet Union | Stephen Lovell | 23 July 2009 | history/politics | |
| 208 | Writing and Script | Andrew Robinson | 27 August 2009 | ||
| 209 | Communism | Leslie Holmes | 27 August 2009 | politics | |
| 210 | Fashion | Rebecca Arnold | 22 October 2009 | Art | |
| 211 | Forensic science | Jim Fraser | 25 February 2010 | science | |
| 212 | Puritanism | Francis J. Bremer | 24 September 2009 | Religion | |
| 213 | The Reformation | Peter Marshall | 22 October 2009 | Religion | |
| 214 | Thomas Aquinas | Fergus Kerr | 5 November 2009 | Religion | |
| 215 | Deserts | Nick Middleton | 26 November 2009 | geography | |
| 216 | The Norman Conquest | George Garnett | 26 November 2009 | history – UK | |
| 217 | Biblical archaeology | Eric H. Cline | 26 November 2009 | Archaeology | |
| 218 | The Reagan Revolution | Gil Troy | 3 December 2009 | history – U.S. | |
| 219 | The Book of Mormon | Terryl Givens | 21 January 2010 | Religion | |
| 220 | Islamic History | Adam J. Silverstein | 21 January 2010 | Religion | |
| 221 | Privacy | Raymond Wacks | 21 January 2010 26 March 2015 (2nd ed.) | politics | |
| 222 | Neoliberalism | Manfred Steger, Ravi K. Roy | 21 January 2010 28 January 2021 (2nd ed.) | politics | |
| 223 | Progressivism | Walter Nugent | 25 February 2010 | politics | |
| 224 | Epidemiology | Rodolfo Saracci | 25 February 2010 | medicine | |
| 225 | Information | Luciano Floridi | 25 February 2010 | ||
| 226 | The Laws of Thermodynamics | Peter Atkins | 25 March 2010 | Four Laws That Drive the Universe, 2007 | physics |
| 227 | Innovation | Mark Dodgson, David Gann | 25 March 2010 23 August 2018 (2nd ed.) | science | |
| 228 | Witchcraft | Malcolm Gaskill | 25 March 2010 | Religion | |
| 229 | The New Testament | Luke Timothy Johnson | 22 April 2010 | Religion | |
| 230 | French literature | John D. Lyons | 22 April 2010 | ||
| 231 | Film music | Kathryn Kalinak | 27 May 2010 | Music | |
| 232 | Druids | Barry Cunliffe | 27 May 2010 | Religion | |
| 233 | German philosophy | Andrew Bowie | 27 May 2010 | philosophy | |
| 234 | Advertising | Winston Fletcher | 24 June 2010 | business | |
| 235 | Forensic psychology | David Canter | 17 June 2010 | psychology | |
| 236 | Modernism | Christopher Butler | 29 July 2010 | ||
| 237 | Leadership | Keith Grint | 29 July 2010 | ||
| 238 | Christian ethics | D. Stephen Long | 29 July 2010 | Religion | |
| 239 | Tocqueville | Harvey Mansfield | 24 June 2010 | politics | |
| 240 | Landscapes and Geomorphology | Andrew Goudie, Heather Viles | 26 August 2010 | geology | |
| 241 | Spanish Literature | Jo Labanyi | 26 August 2010 | ||
| 242 | Diplomacy | Joseph M. Siracusa | 26 August 2010 6 July 2021 (2nd ed.) | For the second edition the title has changed to Diplomatic History | politics |
| 243 | North American Indians | Theda Perdue, Michael D. Green | 26 August 2010 | Archaeology | |
| 244 | The U.S. Congress | Donald Ritchie | 10 June 2010 22 September 2016 (2nd ed.) | politics | |
| 245 | Romanticism | Michael Ferber | 23 September 2010 | ||
| 246 | Utopianism | Lyman Tower Sargent | 23 September 2010 | ||
| 247 | The Blues | Elijah Wald | 24 June 2010 | Music | |
| 248 | Keynes | Robert Skidelsky | 7 October 2010 | economics | |
| 249 | English literature | Jonathan Bate | 7 October 2010 | ||
| 250 | Agnosticism | Robin LePoidevin | 28 October 2010 | Religion | |
| 251 | Aristocracy | William Doyle | 25 November 2010 | politics | |
| 252 | Martin Luther | Scott H. Hendrix | 21 October 2010 | Religion | |
| 253 | Michael Faraday | Frank A.J.L. James | 25 November 2010 | physics | |
| 254 | Planets | David A. Rothery | 25 November 2010 | astronomy | |
| 255 | Pentecostalism | William K. Kay | 27 January 2011 | Religion | |
| 256 | Humanism | Stephen Law | 27 January 2011 | Religion | |
| 257 | Folk music | Mark Slobin | 24 February 2011 | Music | |
| 258 | Late Antiquity | Gillian Clark | 24 February 2011 | Classical Studies | |
| 259 | Genius | Andrew Robinson | 24 February 2011 | psychology | |
| 260 | Numbers | Peter M. Higgins | 24 February 2011 | mathematics | |
| 261 | Muhammad | Jonathan A.C. Brown | 24 March 2011 | Religion | |
| 262 | Beauty | Roger Scruton | 24 March 2011 | Non-VSI, 2009 | |
| 263 | Critical theory | Stephen Eric Bronner | 5 May 2011 26 October 2017 (2nd ed.) | ||
| 264 | Organizations | Mary Jo Hatch | 24 March 2011 | business | |
| 265 | Early Music | Thomas Forrest Kelly | 9 June 2011 | Music | |
| 266 | The Scientific Revolution | Lawrence M. Principe | 28 April 2011 | history – science | |
| 267 | Cancer | Nick James | 26 May 2011 | medicine | |
| 268 | Nuclear power | Maxwell Irvine | 26 May 2011 | physics | |
| 269 | Paganism | Owen Davies | 26 May 2011 | Religion | |
| 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 | Classical Studies | |
| 273 | Conscience | Paul Strohm | 23 June 2011 | ||
| 274 | American Immigration | David A. Gerber | 23 June 2011 | History | |
| 275 | Jesus | Richard Bauckham | 28 July 2011 | Religion | |
| 276 | Viruses | Dorothy H. Crawford | 28 July 2011 22 March 2018 (2nd ed.) 20 October 2022 (3nd ed.) | biology | |
| 277 | Protestantism | Mark A. Noll | 25 August 2011 | Religion | |
| 278 | Derrida | Simon Glendinning | 25 August 2011 | ||
| 279 | Madness | Andrew T. Scull | 25 August 2011 | psychology | |
| 280 | Developmental biology | Lewis Wolpert | 25 August 2011 | biology | |
| 281 | Dictionaries | Lynda Mugglestone | 18 August 2011 | ||
| 282 | Global Economic History | Robert C. Allen | 15 September 2011 | economics | |
| 283 | Multiculturalism | Ali Rattansi | 22 September 2011 | ||
| 284 | Environmental economics | Stephen Smith | 22 September 2011 | economics | |
| 285 | The Cell | Terence Allen, Graham Cowling | 29 September 2011 | biology | |
| 286 | Ancient Greece | Paul Cartledge | 27 October 2011 | Classical Studies | |
| 287 | Angels | David Albert Jones | 27 October 2011 | Religion | |
| 288 | Children's literature | Kimberley Reynolds | 6 October 2011 | ||
| 289 | The Periodic Table | Eric R. Scerri | 27 October 2011 25 July 2019 (2nd ed.) | chemistry | |
| 290 | Modern France | Vanessa R. Schwartz | 27 October 2011 | history | |
| 291 | Reality | Jan Westerhoff | 24 November 2011 | philosophy | |
| 292 | The Computer | Darrel Ince | 24 November 2011 | science | |
| 293 | The Animal Kingdom | Peter Holland | 24 November 2011 | biology | |
| 294 | Colonial Latin American Literature | Rolena Adorno | 24 November 2011 | ||
| 295 | Sleep | Steven W. Lockley, Russell G. Foster | 22 March 2012 | medicine | |
| 296 | The Aztecs | David Carrasco | 26 January 2012 | history | |
| 297 | The Cultural Revolution | Richard Curt Kraus | 26 January 2012 | history/politics | |
| 298 | Modern Latin American Literature | Roberto González Echevarría | 26 January 2012 | ||
| 299 | Magic | Owen Davies | 26 January 2012 | Religion | |
| 300 | Film | Michael Wood | 26 January 2012 | film | |
| 301 | The Conquistadors | Matthew Restall, Felipe Fernández-Armesto | 23 February 2012 | history | |
| 302 | Chinese literature | Sabina Knight | 23 February 2012 | ||
| 303 | Stem Cells | Jonathan Slack | 23 February 2012 23 September 2021 (2nd ed.) | biology | |
| 304 | Italian literature | Peter Hainsworth, David Robey | 23 February 2012 | ||
| 305 | The History of Mathematics | Jacqueline Stedall | 23 February 2012 | mathematics | |
| 306 | The U.S. Supreme Court | Linda Greenhouse | 22 March 2012 23 July 2020 (2nd ed.) | politics – U.S. | |
| 307 | Plague | Paul Slack | 22 March 2012 24 June 2021 (2nd ed.) | medicine | |
| 308 | Russian History | Geoffrey Hosking | 29 March 2012 | history | |
| 309 | Engineering | David Blockley | 22 March 2012 | engineering | |
| 310 | Probability | John Haigh | 26 April 2012 | mathematics | |
| 311 | Rivers | Nick Middleton | 26 April 2012 | geography | |
| 312 | Plants | Timothy Walker | 26 April 2012 | biology | |
| 313 | Anaesthesia | Aidan O'Donnell | 26 April 2012 | medicine | |
| 314 | The Mongols | Morris Rossabi | 26 April 2012 | history | |
| 315 | The Devil | Darren Oldridge | 31 May 2012 | Religion | |
| 316 | Objectivity | Stephen Gaukroger | 24 May 2012 | philosophy | |
| 317 | Magnetism | Stephen J. Blundell | 28 June 2012 | physics | |
| 318 | Anxiety | Daniel Freeman, Jason Freeman | 31 May 2012 | psychology | |
| 319 | Australia | Kenneth Morgan | 31 May 2012 | history | |
| 320 | Languages | Stephen Anderson | 28 June 2012 | linguistics | |
| 321 | Magna Carta | Nicholas Vincent | 28 June 2012 | politics | |
| 322 | Stars | Andrew King | 26 July 2012 | astronomy | |
| 323 | The Antarctic | Klaus Dodds | 26 July 2012 | geography | |
| 324 | Radioactivity | Claudio Tuniz | 26 July 2012 | physics | |
| 325 | Trust | Katherine Hawley | 23 August 2012 | politics | |
| 326 | Metaphysics | Stephen Mumford | 30 August 2012 | philosophy | |
| 327 | The Roman Republic | David M. Gwynn | 30 August 2012 | Classical Studies | |
| 328 | Borders | Alexander C. Diener, Joshua Hagen | 27 September 2012 | politics | |
| 329 | The Gothic | Nick Groom | 27 September 2012 | ||
| 330 | Robotics | Alan Winfield | 27 September 2012 | science | |
| 331 | Civil engineering | David Muir Wood | 27 September 2012 | engineering | |
| 332 | The Orchestra | D. Kern Holoman | 25 October 2012 | Music | |
| 333 | Governance | Mark Bevir | 25 October 2012 | politics | |
| 334 | American History | Paul S. Boyer | 9 August 2012 | History | |
| 335 | Networks | Guido Caldarelli, Michele Catanzaro | 25 October 2012 | science | |
| 336 | Spirituality | Philip Sheldrake | 29 November 2012 | Religion | |
| 337 | Work | Stephen Fineman | 29 November 2012 | economics | |
| 338 | Martyrdom | Jolyon Mitchell | 29 November 2012 | Religion | |
| 339 | Colonial America | Alan Taylor | 29 November 2012 | history – U.S. | |
| 340 | Rastafari | Ennis B. Edmonds | 20 December 2012 | Religion | |
| 341 | Comedy | Matthew Bevis | 20 December 2012 | ||
| 342 | The Avant-Garde | David Cottington | 31 January 2013 | Art | |
| 343 | Thought | Tim Bayne | 31 January 2013 | psychology | |
| 344 | The Napoleonic Wars | Mike Rapport | 31 January 2013 | history | |
| 345 | Medical law | Charles Foster | 28 February 2013 | medicine – law | |
| 346 | Rhetoric | Richard Toye | 28 March 2013 | Classical Studies | |
| 347 | Education | Gary Thomas | 28 March 2013 23 September 2021 (2nd ed.) | education | |
| 348 | Mao | Delia Davin | 25 April 2013 | politics | |
| 349 | The British Constitution | Martin Loughlin | 25 April 2013 | politics - U.K. | |
| 350 | American politics | Richard M. Valelly | 28 March 2013 | politics - U.S. | |
| 351 | The Silk Road | James A. Millward | 26 April 2013 | history | |
| 352 | Bacteria | Sebastian G. B. Amyes | 30 May 2013 | biology | |
| 353 | Symmetry | Ian Stewart | 30 May 2013 | mathematics | |
| 354 | Marine biology | Philip V. Mladenov | 26 September 2013 1 May 2020 (2nd ed.) | biology | |
| 355 | The British Empire | Ashley Jackson | 30 May 2013 | history | |
| 356 | The Trojan War | Eric H. Cline | 30 May 2013 | Archaeology/Classical Studies | |
| 357 | Malthus | Donald Winch | 27 June 2013 | ||
| 358 | Climate | Mark Maslin | 27 June 2013 | science | |
| 359 | The Palestinian–Israeli Conflict | Martin Bunton | 29 August 2013 | history | |
| 360 | Happiness | Daniel M. Haybron | 29 August 2013 | psychology | |
| 361 | Diaspora | Kevin Kenny | 25 July 2013 | politics | |
| 362 | Contemporary Fiction | Robert Eaglestone | 25 July 2013 | ||
| 363 | Modern War | Richard English | 25 July 2013 | military | |
| 364 | The Beats | David Sterritt | 25 July 2013 | ||
| 365 | Sociolinguistics | John Edwards | 25 July 2013 | linguistics | |
| 366 | Food | John Krebs | 26 September 2013 | ||
| 367 | Fractals | Kenneth Falconer | 26 September 2013 | mathematics | |
| 368 | Management | John Hendry | 24 October 2013 | business | |
| 369 | International security | Christopher S. Browning | 24 October 2013 | politics | |
| 370 | Astrobiology | David C. Catling | 24 October 2013 | biology | |
| 371 | Causation | Stephen Mumford, Rani Lill Anjum | 28 November 2013 | ||
| 372 | Entrepreneurship | Paul Westhead, Mike Wright | 28 November 2013 | business | |
| 373 | Tibetan Buddhism | Matthew T. Kapstein | 24 October 2013 | Religion | |
| 374 | The Ancient Near East | Amanda H. Podany | 26 December 2013 | Archaeology | |
| 375 | American Legal History | G. Edward White | 28 November 2013 | law - U.S. | |
| 376 | Ethnomusicology | Timothy Rice | 23 January 2014 | Music | |
| 377 | African Religions | Jacob K. Olupona | 13 March 2014 | Religion | |
| 378 | Humour | Noël Carroll | 23 January 2014 | ||
| 379 | Family law | Jonathan Herring | 27 February 2014 | law - U.K. | |
| 380 | The Ice Age | Jamie Woodward | 30 January 2014 | geology | |
| 381 | Revolutions | Jack A. Goldstone | 26 December 2013 | politics | |
| 382 | Classical Literature | William Allan | 27 March 2014 | Classical Studies | |
| 383 | Accounting | Christopher Nobes | 27 March 2014 | business | |
| 384 | Teeth | Peter S. Ungar | 27 March 2014 | biology | |
| 385 | Physical chemistry | Peter Atkins | 24 April 2014 | chemistry | |
| 386 | Microeconomics | Avinash Dixit | 24 April 2014 | economics | |
| 387 | Landscape architecture | Ian Thompson | 29 May 2014 | Architecture | |
| 388 | The Eye | Michael F. Land | 29 May 2014 | biology | |
| 389 | The Etruscans | Christopher Smith | 29 May 2014 | Classical Studies | |
| 390 | Nutrition | David Bender | 26 June 2014 | medicine | |
| 391 | Coral Reefs | Charles Sheppard | 26 June 2014 22 April 2021 (2nd ed.) | biology | |
| 392 | Complexity | John H. Holland | 24 July 2014 | science | |
| 393 | Alexander the Great | Hugh Bowden | 24 July 2014 | Classical Studies/History | |
| 394 | Hormones | Martin Luck | 24 July 2014 | medicine | |
| 395 | Confucianism | Daniel K. Gardner | 26 June 2014 | Religion | |
| 396 | American Slavery | Heather Andrea Williams | 25 September 2014 | history – U.S. | |
| 397 | African American Religion | Eddie S. Glaude Jr. | 28 August 2014 | Religion | |
| 398 | God | John Bowker | 25 September 2014 | Religion | |
| 399 | Genes | Jonathan Slack | 25 September 2014 | biology | |
| 400 | Knowledge | Jennifer Nagel | 25 September 2014 | philosophy | |
| 401 | Structural engineering | David Blockley | 25 September 2014 | engineering | |
| 402 | Theatre | Marvin Carlson | 23 October 2014 | ||
| 403 | Ancient Egyptian Art and Architecture | Christina Riggs | 23 October 2014 | Art | |
| 404 | The Middle Ages | Miri Rubin | 23 October 2014 | history | |
| 405 | Materials | Christopher Hall | 23 October 2014 | engineering | |
| 406 | Minerals | David Vaughan | 23 October 2014 | geology | |
| 407 | Peace | Oliver P. Richmond | 27 November 2014 | politics | |
| 408 | Iran | Ali Ansari | 27 November 2014 | ||
| 409 | World War II | Gerhard L. Weinberg | 13 November 2014 | military | |
| 410 | Child Psychology | Usha Goswami | 27 November 2014 | psychology | |
| 411 | Sport | Mike Cronin | 27 November 2014 | ||
| 412 | Exploration | Stewart A. Weaver | 12 March 2015 | history | |
| 413 | Microbiology | Nicholas P. Money | 4 December 2014 | biology | |
| 414 | Corporate social responsibility | Jeremy Moon | 11 December 2014 | business | |
| 415 | Love | Ronald de Sousa | 8 January 2015 | philosophy | |
| 416 | Psychotherapy | Tom Burns (Author), Eva Burns-Lundgren (Editor) | 22 January 2015 | psychology | |
| 417 | Chemistry | Peter Atkins | 26 February 2015 | chemistry | |
| 418 | Human Anatomy | Leslie Klenerman | 26 February 2015 | medicine | |
| 419 | The American West | Stephen Aron | 11 December 2014 | history – U.S. | |
| 420 | American Political History | Donald Critchlow | 25 December 2014 | politics - U.S. | |
| 421 | Ritual | Barry Stephenson | 22 January 2015 | Religion | |
| 422 | American Women's History | Susan Ware | 22 January 2015 | history – U.S. | |
| 423 | Dante | Peter Hainsworth, David Robey | 26 February 2015 | ||
| 424 | Ancient Assyria | Karen Radner | 26 March 2015 | history | |
| 425 | Plate tectonics | Peter Molnar | 26 March 2015 | geology | |
| 426 | Corruption | Leslie Holmes | 23 April 2015 | law | |
| 427 | Pilgrimage | Ian Reader | 23 April 2015 | Religion | |
| 428 | Taxation | Stephen Smith | 23 April 2015 | economics | |
| 429 | Crime Fiction | Richard Bradford | 28 May 2015 | ||
| 430 | Microscopy | Terence Allen | 1 August 2015 | science | |
| 431 | Forests | Jaboury Ghazoul | 1 August 2015 | biology | |
| 432 | Social work | Stanley Wells | 1 August 2015 | sociology | |
| 433 | Infectious Disease | Benjamin Bolker and Marta Wayne | 1 August 2015 | medicine | |
| 434 | Liberalism | Michael Freeden | 1 August 2015 | politics | |
| 435 | Psychoanalysis | Daniel Pick | 1 November 2015 | psychology | |
| 436 | The American Revolution | Robert J. Allison | 31 July 2015 | history – U.S. | |
| 437 | Byzantium | Peter Sarris | 1 October 2015 | history | |
| 438 | Nuclear Physics | Frank Close | 1 October 2015 | physics | |
| 439 | Social Psychology | Richard J. Crisp | 1 November 2015 | psychology | |
| 440 | Water | John Finney | 1 November 2015 | chemistry | |
| 441 | Criminal Justice | Julian V. Roberts | 1 November 2015 | law | |
| 442 | Medieval Literature | Elaine Treharne | 1 December 2015 | ||
| 443 | The Enlightenment | John Robertson | 1 December 2015 | history | |
| 444 | Mountains | Martin F. Price | 1 December 2015 | geography | |
| 445 | Philosophy in the Islamic World | Peter Adamson | 1 November 2015 | Religion | |
| 446 | Light | Ian A. Walmsley | 1 December 2015 | physics | |
| 447 | Algebra | Peter M. Higgins | 1 December 2015 | mathematics | |
| 448 | Hermeneutics | Jens Zimmermann | 15 December 2015 | ||
| 449 | International law | Vaughan Lowe | 1 February 2016 | law | |
| 450 | Moons | David Rothery | 1 January 2016 | astronomy | |
| 451 | Sound | Mike Goldsmith | 10 February 2016 | physics | |
| 452 | Epicureanism | Catherine Wilson | 1 February 2016 | Classical Studies | |
| 453 | Black holes | Katherine Blundell | 1 February 2016 | physics | |
| 454 | The Body | Chris Shilling | 1 March 2016 | Music | |
| 455 | Fungi | Nicolas P. Money | 1 April 2016 | biology | |
| 456 | The History of Chemistry | William H. Brock | 1 April 2016 | chemistry | |
| 457 | Environmental Politics | Andrew Dobson | 1 March 2016 | politics | |
| 458 | Modern Drama | Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr | 1 May 2016 | ||
| 459 | The Mexican Revolution | Alan Knight | 1 April 2016 | history | |
| 460 | The Founding Fathers | Richard B. Bernstein | 14 December 2015 | history – U.S. | |
| 461 | Hollywood | Peter Decherney | 27 January 2016 | cinema | |
| 462 | Goethe | Ritchie Robertson | 1 April 2016 | ||
| 463 | Medieval Philosophy | John Marenbon | 1 April 2016 | philosophy | |
| 464 | Earth System Science | Tim Lenton | 25 February 2016 | science | |
| 465 | Slang | Jonathon Green | 25 February 2016 | linguistics | |
| 466 | Computer Science | Subrata Dasgupta | 24 March 2016 | science | |
| 467 | Shakespeare's Comedies | Bart Van Es | 24 March 2016 | ||
| 468 | The Welfare State | David Garland | 24 March 2016 | ||
| 469 | Crystallography | A. M. Glazer | 24 March 2016 | chemistry | |
| 470 | Astrophysics | James Binney | 24 March 2016 | physics | |
| 471 | The BRICS | Andrew F. Cooper | 28 April 2016 | international relations/politics | |
| 472 | Decolonization | Dane Kennedy | 28 April 2016 | history | |
| 473 | Agriculture | Paul Brassley, Richard Soffe | 28 April 2016 | History | |
| 474 | Combinatorics | Robin Wilson | 28 April 2016 | mathematics | |
| 475 | Adolescence | Peter Smith | 26 May 2016 | psychology | |
| 476 | Isotopes | Rob Ellam | 19 May 2016 | chemistry | |
| 477 | Savannas | Peter Furley | 23 June 2016 | geography | |
| 478 | The Hebrew Bible As Literature | Tod Linafelt | 3 March 2016 | Religion | |
| 479 | The Harlem Renaissance | Cheryl A. Wall | 25 August 2016 | history – U.S. | |
| 480 | Babylonia | Trevor Bryce | 22 September 2016 | Classical Studies | |
| 481 | Learning | Mark Haselgrove | 28 July 2016 | education | |
| 482 | Public health | Virginia Berridge | 28 July 2016 | medicine | |
| 483 | Indian Cinema | Ashish Rajadhyaska | 28 July 2016 | cinema | |
| 484 | Public Administration | Stella Z. Theodoulou, Ravi K. Roy | 25 August 2016 | ||
| 485 | Molecular Biology | Aysha Divan, Janice Royds | 25 August 2016 | biology | |
| 486 | Blood | Christopher Cooper | 22 September 2016 | biology | |
| 487 | Copernicus | Owen Gingerich | 11 August 2016 | science | |
| 488 | Military Justice | Eugene R. Fidell | 27 October 2016 | law | |
| 489 | Cognitive Neuroscience | Richard Passingham | 22 September 2016 | psychology | |
| 490 | Leibniz | Maria Rosa Antognazza | 22 September 2016 | philosophy | |
| 491 | War and Technology | Alex Roland | 27 October 2016 | warfare | |
| 492 | Pandemics | Christian W. McMillen | 8 December 2016 | medicine | |
| 493 | Translation | Matthew Reynolds | 27 October 2016 | linguistics | |
| 494 | Modern Italy | Anna Cento Bull | 27 October 2016 | geography | |
| 495 | Eugenics | Philippa Levine | 26 January 2017 | history - science | |
| 496 | Ageing | Nancy Pachana | 24 November 2016 | medicine | |
| 497 | Asian American History | Madeline Y. Hsu | 26 January 2017 | history | |
| 498 | Home | Michael Allen Fox | 8 December 2016 | ||
| 499 | Calvinism | Jon Balserak | 8 December 2016 | Religion | |
| 500 | Measurement | David J. Hand | 6 October 2016 | science | |
| 501 | Telescopes | Geoffrey Cottrell | 8 December 2016 25 May 2023 (2nd ed. as Observational Astronomy) | science | |
| 502 | Rocks | Jan Zalasiewicz | 8 December 2016 | geology | |
| 503 | Banking | John O. S. Wilson, John Goddard | 8 December 2016 | economics | |
| 504 | Depression | Mary Jane Tacchi, Jan Scott | 26 January 2017 | psychology | |
| 505 | Behavioural Economics | Michelle Baddeley | 26 January 2017 | economics | |
| 506 | Weather | Storm Dunlop | 26 January 2017 | science | |
| 507 | Zionism | Michael Stanislawski | 8 December 2016 | Religion | |
| 508 | Intellectual property | Siva Vaidhyanathan | 23 March 2017 | law | |
| 509 | The Industrial Revolution | Robert C. Allen | 23 February 2017 | history | |
| 510 | Populism | Cas Mudde, Cristsbal Rovia Kalwasser | 23 February 2017 | ||
| 511 | Voltaire | Nicholas Cronk | 23 February 2017 | ||
| 512 | Gravity | Timothy Clifton | 23 February 2017 | physics | |
| 513 | Animal Behaviour | Tristram D. Wyatt | 23 February 2017 | biology | |
| 514 | Navigation | Jim Bennett | 23 February 2017 | ||
| 515 | The Habsburg Empire | Martyn Rady | 23 March 2017 | history | |
| 516 | The Future | Jennifer Gidley | 23 March 2017 | ||
| 517 | Circadian Rhythms | Russell Foster, Leon Kreitzman | 23 March 2017 | biology | |
| 518 | The Atmosphere | Paul Palmer | 23 March 2017 | science | |
| 519 | Infinity | Ian Stewart | 23 March 2017 | mathematics | |
| 520 | Organic Chemistry | Graham Patrick | 23 March 2017 | chemistry | |
| 521 | Clinical Psychology | Susan Llewellyn, Katie Aafjes-van Doorn | 27 April 2017 | psychology | |
| 522 | Shakespeare's Tragedies | Stanley Wells | 27 April 2017 | ||
| 523 | Military Strategy | Antulio Joseph Echevarria | 23 February 2017 | warfare | |
| 524 | European Union Law | Anthony Arnull | 25 May 2017 | law | |
| 525 | Multilingualism | John C. Maher | 25 May 2017 | linguistics | |
| 526 | Jewish History | David N. Myers | 25 May 2017 | ||
| 527 | Branding | Robert Jones | 22 June 2017 | ||
| 528 | Pain | Rob Boddice | 27 July 2017 | biology | |
| 529 | Oceans | Dorrik Stow | 27 July 2017 | geography | |
| 530 | Utilitarianism | Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, Peter Singer | 27 July 2017 | ||
| 531 | Freemasonry | Andreas Önnerfors | 24 August 2017 | ||
| 532 | Heredity | John Waller | 24 August 2017 | biology | |
| 533 | Thinking and Reasoning | Jonathan Evans | 28 September 2017 | psychology | |
| 534 | Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems | Jonathan F. S. Post | 28 September 2017 | ||
| 535 | Mammals | T. S. Kemp | 28 September 2017 | biology | |
| 536 | Environmental Law | Elizabeth Fisher | 26 October 2017 | law | |
| 537 | Projects | Andrew Davies | 26 October 2017 | ||
| 538 | Perception | Brian J. Rogers | 26 October 2017 | psychology | |
| 539 | Big Data | Dawn E. Holmes | 23 November 2017 | ||
| 540 | Modern India | Craig Jeffrey | 23 November 2017 | geography/politics | |
| 541 | Miracles | Yujin Nagasawa | 23 November 2017 | Religion | |
| 542 | Analytic Philosophy | Michael Beaney | 23 November 2017 | philosophy | |
| 543 | The History of Cinema | Geoffrey Nowell-Smith | 23 November 2017 | cinema | |
| 544 | The Immune System | Paul Klenerman | 30 November 2017 | medicine | |
| 545 | Universities and Colleges | David Palfreyman, Paul Temple | 28 December 2017 | education | |
| 546 | Monasticism | Stephen J. Davis | 25 January 2018 | Religion | |
| 547 | Lakes | Warwick F. Vincent | 25 January 2018 | geography | |
| 548 | The Hellenistic Age | Peter Thonemann | 22 February 2018 | Classical Studies | |
| 549 | The History of Physics | J. L. Heilbron | 25 January 2018 | physics | |
| 550 | Fairy Tale | Marina Warner | 22 February 2018 | ||
| 551 | The English Language | Simon Horobin | 25 January 2018 | linguistics | |
| 552 | Philosophy of Religion | Tim Bayne | 22 February 2018 | Religion | |
| 553 | Organized Crime | Georgios A. Antonopoulos, Georgios Papanicolaou | 22 February 2018 | criminology | |
| 554 | Veterinary Science | James Yeates | 22 February 2018 | science | |
| 555 | Applied mathematics | Alain Goriely | 22 February 2018 | mathematics | |
| 556 | Comparative Literature | Ben Hutchinson | 22 March 2018 | ||
| 557 | Development | Ian Goldin | 22 March 2018 | ||
| 558 | Anthropocene | Erle C. Ellis | 22 March 2018 | science | |
| 559 | Genomics | John M. Archibald | 22 March 2018 | biology | |
| 560 | Geophysics | William Lowrie | 22 March 2018 | physics | |
| 561 | Native American Literature | Sean Teuton | 19 January 2018 | ||
| 562 | Southeast Asia | James R. Rush | 24 May 2018 | geography | |
| 563 | Criminology | Tim Newburn | 26 April 2018 | criminology | |
| 564 | American Naval History | Craig L. Symonds | 24 May 2018 | history – U.S. | |
| 565 | Demography | Sarah Harper | 24 May 2018 | geography | |
| 566 | The U.S. Constitution | David J. Bodenhamer | 8 June 2018 | law | |
| 567 | Decadence | David Weir | 22 March 2018 | ||
| 568 | Sexual Selection | Marlene Zuk, Leigh W Simmons | 23 August 2018 | biology | |
| 569 | The Holy Roman Empire | Joachim Whaley | 26 July 2018 | history | |
| 570 | Stoicism | Brad Inwood | 26 July 2018 | philosophy | |
| 571 | Poverty | Philip N. Jefferson | 26 July 2018 | ||
| 572 | Autobiography | Laura Marcus | 26 July 2018 | Literature | |
| 573 | Synthetic Biology | Jamie A. Davies | 26 July 2018 | biology | |
| 574 | Geology | Jan Zalasiewicz | 26 July 2018 | geology | |
| 575 | Artificial Intelligence | Margaret A. Boden | 23 August 2018 | ||
| 576 | The Book of Common Prayer | Brian Cummings | 23 August 2018 | Religion | |
| 577 | American Cultural History | Eric Avila | 25 October 2018 | History | |
| 578 | Abolitionism | Richard S. Newman | 6 September 2018 | History | |
| 579 | The Psychology of Music | Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis | 27 December 2018 | Music | |
| 580 | Saints | Simon Yarrow | 20 September 2018 | Religion | |
| 581 | African Politics | Ian Taylor | 27 September 2018 | History | |
| 582 | Adam Smith | Christopher J. Berry | 25 October 2018 | philosophy | |
| 583 | Glaciation | David J. A. Evans | 25 October 2018 | geology | |
| 584 | Typography | Paul Luna | 22 November 2018 | Art | |
| 585 | Environmental ethics | Robin Attfield | 13 December 2018 | philosophy | |
| 586 | Napoleon | David A. Bell | 22 November 2018 | history | |
| 587 | Modern architecture | Adam Sharr | 22 November 2018 | Architecture | |
| 588 | Biometrics | Michael Fairhurst | 20 November 2018 | ||
| 589 | The History of Childhood | James Marten | 25 October 2018 | ||
| 590 | Waves | Mike Goldsmith | 22 November 2018 | physics | |
| 591 | C. S. Lewis | James Como | 24 January 2019 | ||
| 592 | Mathematical finance | Mark H. A. Davis | 24 January 2019 | economics | |
| 593 | Identity | Florian Coulmas | 28 February 2019 | sociology | |
| 594 | Charles Dickens | Jenny Hartley | 28 February 2019 | ||
| 595 | Garden History | Gordon Campbell | 15 February 2019 | ||
| 596 | Reptiles | Tom Kemp | 24 January 2019 | biology | |
| 597 | Film Noir | James Naremore | 28 February 2019 | film | |
| 598 | Homer | Barbara Graziosi | 28 March 2019 | Homer, 2016 | Classical Studies |
| 599 | Matter | Geoff Cottrell | 28 March 2019 | physics | |
| 600 | Reading | Belinda Jack | 18 April 2019 | ||
| 601 | Concentration Camps | Dan Stone | 28 March 2019 | Concentration Camps: A Short History, 2017 | history |
| 602 | Methodism | William J. Abraham | 25 April 2019 | Religion | |
| 603 | Dyslexia | Margaret J. Snowling | 23 May 2019 | psychology | |
| 604 | Leo Tolstoy | Liza Knapp | 24 May 2019 | ||
| 605 | Extinction | Paul B. Wignall | 27 June 2019 | biology | |
| 606 | Physics | Sidney Perkowitz | 25 July 2019 | physics | |
| 607 | The Treaty of Versailles | Michael S. Neiberg | 25 April 2019 | history | |
| 608 | Synaesthesia | Julia Simner | 27 June 2019 | psychology | |
| 609 | American Foreign Relations | Andrew Preston | 25 July 2019 | History | |
| 610 | Secularism | Andrew Copson | 11 July 2019 | Secularism: Politics, Religion, and Freedom, 2017 | Religion |
| 611 | Geoffrey Chaucer | David Wallace | 22 August 2019 | Geoffrey Chaucer: A New Introduction, 2017 | |
| 612 | Nazi Germany | Jane Caplan | 25 July 2019 | history | |
| 613 | Scepticism | Duncan Pritchard | 26 September 2019 | philosophy | |
| 614 | Poetry | Bernard O'Donoghue | 26 September 2019 | ||
| 615 | Orthodox Christianity | A. Edward Siecienski | 22 August 2019 | Religion | |
| 616 | Aesthetics | Bence Nanay | 24 October 2019 | ||
| 617 | Dynasty | Jeroen Duindam | 24 October 2019 | ||
| 618 | Psychopathy | Essi Viding | 24 October 2019 | psychology | |
| 619 | Philosophy of biology | Samir Okasha | 28 November 2019 | biology | |
| 620 | Energy Systems | Nick Jenkins | 28 November 2019 | ||
| 621 | Tides | David George Bowers, Emyr Martyn Roberts | 28 November 2019 | ||
| 622 | Topology | Richard Earl | 12 December 2019 | mathematics | |
| 623 | Superstition | Stuart Vyse | 23 January 2020 | ||
| 624 | Country music | Richard Carlin | 23 January 2020 | Music | |
| 625 | Korea | Michael J. Seth | 23 January 2020 | geography/politics | |
| 626 | Trigonometry | Glen Van Brummelen | 23 January 2020 | mathematics | |
| 627 | Niels Bohr | J. L. Heilbron | 23 January 2020 | science | |
| 628 | Albert Camus | Oliver Cloag | 27 February 2020 | ||
| 629 | Federalism | Mark J. Rozell, Clyde Wilcox | 26 December 2019 | ||
| 630 | Aerial Warfare | Frank Ledwidge | 26 March 2020 | History | |
| 631 | Renewable Energy | Nick Jelley | 27 February 2020 | ||
| 632 | Prohibition | W. J. Rorabaugh | 16 January 2020 | ||
| 633 | The Abrahamic Religions | Charles L. Cohen | 23 April 2020 | Religion | |
| 634 | Systems Biology | Eberhard O. Voit | 26 March 2020 | biology | |
| 635 | Reconstruction | Allen C. Guelzo | 28 May 2020 | history | |
| 636 | Number theory | Robin Wilson | 28 May 2020 | mathematics | |
| 637 | Smell | Matthew Cobb | 28 May 2020 | medicine | |
| 638 | The Sun | Philip Judge | 23 April 2020 | astronomy | |
| 639 | Emile Zola | Brian Nelson | 23 July 2020 | ||
| 640 | Fire | Andrew C. Scott | 25 June 2020 | physics | |
| 641 | The U.S. Civil War | Louis P. Masur | 22 October 2020 | history – U.S. | |
| 642 | American business history | Walter A. Friedman | 23 July 2020 | History | |
| 643 | Dementia | Kathleen Taylor | 23 July 2020 | psychology | |
| 644 | Canada | Donald Wright | 23 July 2020 | geography | |
| 645 | French philosophy | Stephen Gaukroger, Knox Peden | 23 July 2020 | philosophy | |
| 646 | The Russian Economy | Richard Connolly | 23 July 2020 | economics | |
| 647 | Biogeography | Mark V. Lomolino | 23 July 2020 | geography | |
| 648 | The Ghetto | Bryan Cheyette | 27 August 2020 | ||
| 649 | Ecology | Jaboury Ghazoul | 27 August 2020 | biology | |
| 650 | George Bernard Shaw | Christopher Wixson | 24 September 2020 | ||
| 651 | Philosophical Method | Timothy Williamson | 27 August 2020 | philosophy | |
| 652 | Soft Matter | Tom McLeish | 22 October 2020 | physics | |
| 653 | Ovid | Llewelyn Morgan | 24 September 2020 | Classical Studies | |
| 654 | Modern Brazil | Anthony W. Pereira | 24 September 2020 | geography | |
| 655 | City Planning | Carl Abbott | 26 November 2020 | Architecture | |
| 656 | The Maya | Matthew Restall, Amara Solari | 26 November 2020 | Archaeology | |
| 657 | American Military History | Joseph T. Glatthaar | 26 November 2020 | history – U.S. | |
| 658 | Montaigne | William M. Hamlin | 22 October 2020 | ||
| 659 | Global Islam | Nile Green | 26 November 2020 | Religion | |
| 660 | Volcanoes | Michael J. Branney, Jan Zalasiewicz | 26 November 2020 | geology | |
| 661 | Enzymes | Paul Engel | 26 November 2020 | biology | |
| 662 | Islamic Law | Mashood A. Baderin | 25 February 2021 | Religion | |
| 663 | Marketing | Kenneth Le Meunier-FitzHugh | 25 February 2021 | ||
| 664 | The Virtues | Craig A. Boyd, Kevin Timpe | 25 March 2021 | ||
| 665 | War & Religion | Jolyon Mitchell, Joshua Rey | 25 March 2021 | Religion | |
| 666 | The American South | Charles Reagan Wilson | 10 December 2020 | ||
| 667 | Arbitration | Thomas Schultz, Thomas Grant | 22 April 2021 | law | |
| 668 | Philosophy of physics | David Wallace[9] | 22 April 2021 | philosophy | |
| 669 | Religion | Thomas A. Tweed | 26 November 2020 | Religion | |
| 670 | Amphibians | T. S. Kemp | 22 July 2021 | biology | |
| 671 | Silent film | Donna Kornhaber | 22 October 2020 | Art | |
| 672 | Creativity | Vlad Glăveanu | 27 May 2021 | psychology | |
| 673 | Refugees | Gil Loescher | 27 May 2021 | ||
| 674 | Biochemistry | Mark Lorch | 27 May 2021 | chemistry | |
| 675 | Samurai | Michael Wert | 24 June 2021 | history | |
| 676 | Horror | Darryl Jones | 24 June 2021 | ||
| 677 | Henry James | Susan L. Mizruchi | 24 June 2021 | ||
| 678 | Human Physiology | Jamie A. Davies | 27 May 2021 | medicine | |
| 679 | Competition and Antitrust Law | Ariel Ezrachi | 24 June 2021 | law | |
| 680 | Habeas corpus | Amanda L. Tyler | 27 May 2021 | law | |
| 681 | Blasphemy | Yvonne Sherwood | 26 August 2021 | Religion | |
| 682 | Jewish literature | Ilan Stavans | 22 July 2021 | Religion | |
| 683 | American Intellectual History | Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen | 9 December 2021 | History | |
| 684 | Time | Jenann Ismael | 23 September 2021 | science | |
| 685 | James Joyce | Colin MacCabe | 28 October 2021 | ||
| 686 | The Virgin Mary | Mary Joan Winn Leith | 25 November 2021 | Religion | |
| 687 | The Arctic | Klaus Dodds, Jamie Woodward | 25 November 2021 | geography | |
| 688 | The Short Story | Andrew Kahn | 9 December 2021 | ||
| 689 | Pakistan | Pippa Virdee | 25 November 2021 | geography | |
| 690 | American poetry | David Caplan | 25 November 2021 | Literature | |
| 691 | Philosophy of mind | Barbara Gail Montero | 6 January 2022 | philosophy | |
| 692 | The History of Political Thought | Richard Whatmore | 25 November 2021 | politics | |
| 693 | Planetary Systems | Raymond T. Pierrehumbert | 9 December 2021 | astronomy | |
| 694 | Jane Austen | Tom Keymer | 27 January 2022 | ||
| 695 | Geometry | Maciej Dunajski | 27 April 2022 | mathematics | |
| 696 | John Stuart Mill | Gregory Claeys | 24 May 2022 | politics | |
| 697 | Polygamy | Sarah M. S. Pearsall | 31 December 2021 | Religion | |
| 698 | Elizabeth Bishop | Jonathan F. S. Post | 24 March 2022 | ||
| 699 | Human resource management | Adrian Wilkinson | 24 February 2022 | business | |
| 700 | Mary Shelley | Charlotte Gordon | 24 March 2022 | ||
| 701 | Violence | Philip Dwyer | 24 March 2022 | ||
| 702 | Employment Law | David Cabrelli | 24 March 2022 | law | |
| 703 | Cognitive Behavioural Therapy | Freda McManus | 28 April 2022 | psychology | |
| 704 | Theodor W. Adorno | Andrew Bowie | 26 May 2022 | ||
| 705 | Ludwig Van Beethoven | Mark Evan Bonds | 12 May 2022 | Music | |
| 706 | The Spartans | Andrew J. Bayliss | 26 May 2022 | Classical Studies | |
| 707 | Evangelicalism | John G. Stackhouse Jr. | 31 May 2022 | Religion | |
| 708 | Fluid mechanics | Eric Lauga | 28 April 2022 | physics | |
| 709 | Insects | Simon Leather | 23 June 2022 | biology | |
| 710 | Music and Technology | Mark Katz | 26 January 2023 | Music | |
| 711 | Negotiation | Carrie Menkel-Meadow | 22 September 2022 | psychology | |
| 712 | Evil | Luke Russell | 27 October 2022 | philosophy | |
| 713 | The American Judicial System | Charles L. Zelden | 1 September 2022 | History | |
| 714 | The History of Computing | Doron Swade | 25 August 2022 | science | |
| 715 | Ivan Pavlov | Daniel P. Todes | 26 January 2023 | biology | |
| 716 | World Mythology | David A. Leeming | 27 October 2022 | Classical Studies/Religion | |
| 717 | Hannah Arendt | Dana Villa | 26 January 2023 | philosophy | |
| 718 | Gödel's Theorem | A. W. Moore | 24 November 2022 | mathematics | |
| 719 | Microbiomes | Angela E. Douglas | 24 November 2022 | biology | |
| 720 | British cinema | Charles Barr | 28 July 2022 | Art | |
| 721 | Anselm | Thomas Williams | 24 November 2022 | Religion | |
| 722 | Condensed Matter Physics | Ross McKenzie | 25 May 2023 | physics | |
| 723 | Nanotechnology | Philip Moriarty | 29 December 2022 | science | |
| 724 | Addiction | Keith Humphreys | 24 January 2023 | psychology | |
| 725 | Vatican II | Shaun Blanchard, Stephen Bullivant | 23 March 2023 | Religion | |
| 726 | Suburbs | Carl Abbott | 23 February 2023 | ||
| 727 | The Jury | Renee Lettow Lerner | 23 March 2023 | law | |
| 728 | Japanese literature | Alan Tansman | 15 May 2023 | ||
| 729 | African American History | Jonathan Scott Holloway | 23 February 2023 | History | |
| 730 | The Civil Rights Movement | Thomas C. Holt | 23 February 2023 | politics | |
| 731 | Ancient Greek and Roman Science | Liba Taub | 25 May 2023 | science | |
| 732 | Pseudoscience | Michael D. Gordin | 25 May 2023 | ||
| 733 | Bohemians | David Weir | 22 June 2023 | Literature | |
| 734 | Mathematical Analysis | Richard Earl | 22 June 2023 | mathematics | |
| 735 | The History of Emotions | Thomas Dixon | 25 May 2023 | history | |
| 736 | Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) | Peter Adamson | 27 Jun 2023 | Biography/Philosophy/Religion | |
| 737 | Invasive Species | Julie Lockwood, Dustin J. Welbourne | 22 June 2023 | biology | |
| 738 | Biodiversity Conservation | David W. Macdonald | 27 July 2023 | biology | |
| 739 | The Victorians | Martin Hewitt | 24 August 2023 | history | |
| 742 | French Cinema | Dudley Andrew | 26 October 2023 |
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 sans-serif used for headings and in other places is OUP Argo.
See also
- Fontana Modern Masters, a similar series on 20th century thinkers.
- Découvertes Gallimard, a similar series in French of introductory books written by experts, started in 1986, noted for its fine illustration. Some titles are translated in other languages.
- For Dummies, a similar series of introductory books.
- Que sais-je?, a similar series in French of introductory books written by experts, started in 1941. Some titles are translated in other languages.
- Rough Guides, whose non-travel books also cover culture and science.
Notes
References
- "Very Short Introductions". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
- "Very Short Introductions – General Series". Oxford University Press (UK). Retrieved 18 April 2018.
- "Very Short Introductions". Oxford University Press.
- "Languages: A Very Short Introduction". Oxford University Press (UK). Archived from the original on 24 December 2013. Retrieved 3 December 2011.
- 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 16 February 2015.
- Schulz, Kathryn (9 October 2017). "How to Be a Know-It-All". The New Yorker. Condé Nast. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
- "A brief guide to Oxford's 'Very Short Introductions'". The Fortnightly Review. 8 December 2011. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
- "Philosophy of Physics: A Very Short Introduction". sites.pitt.edu. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
External links
- Official site
- Presentation by Linda Greenhouse on The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction, March 20, 2012, C-SPAN
- Presentation by Linda Greenhouse on The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction, September 22, 2012, C-SPAN
- Q&A interview with Donald Ritchie on The U.S. Congress: A Very Short Introduction, August 15, 2010, C-SPAN
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