November 2025 Content Update Secondary School Core

9 new titles were released to Secondary School Core and Secondary School Core with Backfile in November 2025. Two titles were retired from the Secondary School Core with Backfile Collection; they were previously weeded from the curated version of Secondary School Core in 2017. 

There are now 1,228 titles in the Secondary School Core collection, and 1,446 titles in Secondary School Core with Backfile. If you subscribe to this package, see a full title list in your Admin account (log-in required) or email [e-mail] for assistance.

New Secondary School Core Titles: 

	Cricketing Lives: A Characterful History from Pitch to Page ISBN: 9781789143713 Humorous and deeply affectionate, Cricketing Lives tells the story of the world's greatest and most incomprehensible game through those who have shaped it, from the rustic contests of eighteenth-century England to the spectacle of the Indian Premier League.
	A Dictionary of Organisational Behaviour ISBN: 9780191843273 This accessible dictionary provides authoritative definitions of terms in the field of organizational behaviour.
	The Phoenicians: Lost Civilizations ISBN: 9781789144789 The Phoenicians is a fascinating exploration of this much-mythologized people: their history, artistic heritage and the scope of their maritime and colonizing activities in the Mediterranean.
	The Schlager Anthology of Hispanic America: A Student's Guide to Essential Primary Sources ISBN: 9781935306849 The Schlager Anthology of Hispanic America offers a modern, original library reference set covering Hispanic American history from the 1100s to the present day. This anthology traces the history and culture of Hispanic America through critical historical documents: speeches, letters, court cases, interviews, government reports, and visual images.
	The Sea: Nature and Culture ISBN: 9781789144871 This book explores the sea and its meanings from ancient myths to contemporary geopolitics, from Atlantis to the Mediterranean migrant crisis.
	Squid ISBN: 9781789143348 In Squid, Martin Wallen traces the many different ways humans have thought about and pictured this predatory mollusc: as guardians, harbingers of environmental collapse or an untapped resource to be exploited.
	Strange Bright Blooms: A History of Cut Flowers ISBN: 9781789144017 This book analyzes the transplanted nature of cut flowers - of our relationship with them and the careful curation of their very existence.
	True to the Land: A History of Food in Australia ISBN: 9781789144062 Spanning 65,000 years, this book provides a history of food in Australia from its beginnings, with the arrival of the first peoples and their stewardship of the land, to a present where the production and consumption of food is fraught with anxieties and competing priorities.
	Turtle ISBN: 9781789143362 In Turtle, Louise M. Pryke celebrates the slow and unassuming manner of this doughty creature, which provides a living model of endurance and efficiency.

Retired Secondary School Core Titles:

H.W. Wilson Guide to the Ancient World (1986)
ISBN: 9780824207427

H.W. Wilson Dictionary of Foreign Phrases and Abbreviations (1990)
ISBN: 9780824206758

There were no updated titles this month. A full list of retired and updated titles can be requested from [e-mail].