This chapter provides a selective review of textbooks for use in translation-oriented courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The emphasis falls on those books with broad applicability, but some attention is also given to others that can prove effective in specific pedagogical contexts. The review is divided in four sections, each devoted to a particular type of textbook: readers, primers, reference works, and manuals. The goal throughout is to examine how these texts construct a relationship between theory and practice and what kinds of research and translating they enable.