CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- FOREWORD by Gary A. Olson -- I. OVERVIEW -- 1. Introduction by Xin Liu Gale and Fredric G. Gale -- 2. In Case of Fire, Throw In (What to Do with Textbooks Once You Switch to Sourcebooks) by David Bleich -- II. TEXTBOOKS, CULTURE, AND IDEOLOGY -- 3. The Great Way: Reading and Writing in Freedom by Kurt Spellmeyer -- 4. Self, Other, In-Between: Cross-Cultural Composition Readers and the Reconstruction of Cultural Identities by Yameng Liu -- 5. Appreciating Narratives of Containment and Contentment: Reading the Writing Handbook as Public Discourse by Joseph Janangelo -- 6. A Textbook's Theory: Current CompositionTheory in Argument Textbooks by Lizbeth A. Bryant -- III. TEXTBOOKS AND PEDAGOGY -- 7. Teaching from a Single Textbook "Rhetoric": The Potential Heaviness of the Book by Michael W. Kleine -- 8. Imitations of Life: Technical Writing Textbook and the Social Context by Fredric G. Gale -- 9. The "Full Toolbox" and Critical Thinking: Conflicts and Contradictions in The St. Martin's Guide to Writing by Xin Liu Gale -- IV. MATERIAL AND POLITICAL CONDITIONS OF PUBLISHING TEXTBOOKS -- 10. Of Handbooks and Handbags: Composition Textbook Publishing After the Deal Decade by Peter Mortensen -- 11. Textbook Advertisements in the Formation of Composition: 1969-1990 by James Thomas Zebroski -- 12. Writing Writing Lives: The Collaborative Production of a Composition Text in a Large First-Year Writing Program by Sara Garnes, David Humphries, Vic Mortimer, Jennifer Phegley, and Kathleen R. Wallace -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.