April 2025 Content Update Academic Core

11 new titles and 1 updated title were released to both Academic Core and Academic Core with Backfile collections in April 2025. There are now 976 titles in the curated version of Academic Core and 1,268 titles in Academic Core with Backfile. 

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Titles Added to Academic Core and Academic Core with Backfile

	Animal: Jellyfish ISBN: 9781789142150 An up-to-date guide to the biology and cultural history of the jellyfish.
	Animal: Kingfisher ISBN: 9781789141399 This beautifully illustrated book delves into the origins and diversity of the more than 120 species of kingfishers, from the burly kookaburras to the diminutive birds that daringly pluck spiders off webs, defining their characteristics, their differences, their lifestyles and their cultural significance around the world.
	Animal: Otter ISBN: 9781789142242 A natural and cultural history of a much-loved animal, the otter.
	Animal: Pelican ISBN: 9781789140750 In this must-read book for all bird enthusiasts, Barbara Allen skillfully weaves together wildlife trivia, historical tales and the latest research to provide an engaging account of the cultural and natural history of this emblematic bird.
	Animal: Polar Bear ISBN: 9781789141467 This is a natural and cultural history of the polar bear, describing the evolution, species, habitat and behaviour of the animal, as well as its portrayal in art, literature, film and advertising.
	Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture: A New Companion to Herman Melville ISBN: 9781119668503 A New Companion to Herman Melville delivers an insightful examination of Melville for the twenty-first century, offering a variety of tools for reading, writing, and teaching Melville and critical, technological, and aesthetic practices that can be employed to read Melville in exciting and revelatory ways. In addition to considering theories of race, gender, sexuality, religion, transatlantic and hemispheric studies, digital humanities, book history, neurodiversity, and new biography and reception studies, this book offers: a thorough introduction to the life of Melville, as well as the twentieth- and twenty-first-century revivals of his work; comprehensive explorations of Melville's works, including Moby-Dick, Pierre, Piazza Tales, and Israel Potter, as well as his poems; practical discussions of material books, print culture, and digital technologies as applied to Melville; and in-depth examinations of Melville's treatment of the natural world.
	Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects ISBN: 9781789144529 In Extinct, contributors nominate 'extinct' objects and address them in a series of short, vivid, sometimes personal essays, speaking of not only obsolete technologies, but other ways of thinking, making and interacting with the world.
	The Cat: A Natural and Cultural History ISBN: 9780691183732 A comprehensive, richly illustrated introduction to the behavior and qualities of the cat.
	The Gardener's Botanical: An Encyclopedia of Latin Plant Names ISBN: 9780691200170 The Gardener's Botanical: An Encyclopedia of Latin Plant Names is the definitive guide to botanical Latin.
	The Lives of the Natural World: The Lives of Fungi: A Natural History of Our Planet's Decomposers ISBN: 9780691229843 Combining engaging and accessible text with beautiful images, The Lives of Fungi lays out all the essential facts about fungi for the mycologically curious.
	The SAGE Handbook of Graduate Employability ISBN: 9781529771848 This Handbook brings together the latest research on graduate employability into one authoritative volume. Dedicated parts guide readers through topics, key issues and debates relating to delivering, facilitating, achieving and evaluating graduate employability.

Updated Title in Academic Core and Academic Core with Backfile

Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture: A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture, 2nd Edition ISBN: 9781119692539 The newly revised second edition of A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture delivers an eclectic and revealing set of discussions on Latin American culture and literature by scholars at the cutting edge of their respective fields. The included essays, written from the perspective of historiography, affect theory, decolonial approaches, and human rights, introduce readers to topics like gaucho literature, postcolonial writing in the Andes, and baroque art while pointing to future work on the issues raised.

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