Most common reason for rejection is no market. Wadsworth publishes undergraduate textbooks. The Traditions of Philosophy by Harrison Hall and Norman E. Bowie, and in difficulty from Practical Study of Argument by Trudy Govier to Logic and Philosophy by Howard Kahane. These books and others, such as Invitation to Philosophy by Stanley M. Honer and Thomas C. Hunt, are organized for teaching with glossaries often within the chapters and with either exercises or discussion questions for each chapter. About half the authors were unpublished prior to having their books published by Wadsworth.
Books are well edited, designed and executed.
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