Introduction / Xin Liu Gale and Fredric G. Gale -- In case of fire, throw in (what to do with textbooks once you switch to sourcebooks) / David Bleich -- The great way: reading and writing in freedom / Kurt Spellmeyer -- Self, other, in-between: cross-cultural composition readers and the reconstruction of cultural identities / Yameng Liu -- Appreciating narratives of containment and contentment: reading the writing handbook as public discourse / Joseph Janangelo -- A textbook's theory: current composition theory in argument textbooks / Lizbeth A. Bryant -- Teaching from a single textbook "rhetoric": the potential heaviness of the book / Michael W. Kleine -- Imitations of life: technical writing textbooks and the social context / Fredric G. Gale -- The "full toolbox" and critical thinking: conflicts and contradictions in the St. Martin's guide to writing / Xin Liu Gale -- Of handbooks and handbags: composition textbook publishing after the deal decade / Peter Mortensen -- Textbook advertisements in the formation of composition: 1969-1990 / James Thomas Zebroski -- Writing Writing lives: the collaborative production of a composition text in a large first-year writing program / Sara Garnes [and others].