Readers are the essential element in the book process, because they make the creators' work live again and again. Our best friends are the authors, the creators, who can write the most beautiful literary forms. A rigorous criticism helps us to improve our work everyday and guides the readers.
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EDICIONES DE LA TORREWe envisage publishing as a social function, and culture, in which we procure to emphasise the extent of Man's modest role, as a germinative function in which ideas, knowledge, beauty and human creation give us means to transform, day by day and together, our society into a community in which we can all live.
We consider the reader to be the essential element of the book as it is he who brings the creators' work alive and he who recreates it again and again. Our ideal reader is one who enjoys reading, thinks about what he reads and uses what he learns.
Our greatest asset is that created by authors who consider human beings yet know how to extract incredibly beautiful literary forms from language. We value as authors or co-authors those who, inserting text, making comments, translating or illustrating, enrich and complete the work.
We are a small company but we have great contributors, both within and outside of the company, with whom we strive to maintain cooperative relations. We welcome rigorous criticism that both guides readers and helps us to improve our work day after day.
We distribute our books by all the lawful channels, but we consider the bookshop to be the best place for all readers to get to know and acquire our collections. We ask for the support of teachers and librarians so that anybody who is interested, be they child or adult, may access our publications.
We fight against illegal photocopies which undermine books and readers alike and devalue the royalties of all those involved.
Our position of political independence and social commitment leads us to collaborate with movements and people equally committed. Besides the diverse charitable acts that we have been carrying out since our establishment, from the 1st January 1994 we have assigned 0.7% of the gross profit of our books to development programmes in the Third World via Non Government Organizations.
We fight against the degradation of the Environment and as such now nearly all of our promotional material, and some of our books, are printed on ecologically recycled paper.
Ediciones de la Torre began in 1975, emerging from a social and cultural platform. The publishing company began its activities in May 1976 and since then it has published more than 400 titles. In the year 2001, with the beginnings of the 21st Century of our era, we celebrated our 25th anniversary and we hope to continue being a reference point, modest yet well defined, for all people and organizations that love and believe in good books.
VALUES CONTAINED IN BOOKS
BY EDICIONES DE LA TORRE• Happiness
Vitality, Joy. Positive attitude in the face of daily difficulties. Good humour in private relations.• Love / Friendship
Love: feeling that causes the spirit to search for the true or imagined good, and wish to enjoy this good.
Friendship: personal feeling, pure and selfless, usually reciprocal, that is born from and strengthened with relations.
• Beauty
Property of things that make us love them, instilling in us spiritual delight.• Courage
Impulsive decision and effort of the spirit; bravery.• Dignity
Quality meaning one is sensitive to insults, scorn, humiliation or lack of consideration.• Fraternity
Union and good relations between brothers or between those who treat each other as such.• Generosity
Quality of placing general interests before personal ones, those of others before one's own.• Honesty / Decency
Decency: Goodness, rectitude of spirit, the quality of Man (humanity), integrity and honesty in work.• Equality
Conformity of one thing with another in nature, form, quality, quantity. - Before the law: principle that recognises that all citizens have the capacity to the same rights.• Justice
Virtud que inclina a dar a cada uno lo que le pertenece. - Derecho, razón, equidad.• Laboriousness
Diligence or inclination to work.• Liberty
Mans natural faculty to work in one way or another, and to not work, as he is responsible for his actions.• Modesty
Discretion or humility in one's deportment and conduct. - Honesty, decency.• Respect for Nature
Recognition that Man belongs to Earth, not vice versa.• Perseverance
Steadfastness and constancy in both the execution of aims and in the spirit's resolve.• Sincerity
Simplicity, truthfulness, a way of expressing one's self free from falsity.• Tolerance
Respect and consideration towards the opinions and practises of others, even if we find them abhorrent.• Respect to Human Rights
Recognition of the rights inherent to a human person, inalienable and universal.
COLECTIONS
ALBA Y MAYO
Children and young's books
PROYECTO DIDÁCTICO QUIRÓN
Education
NUESTRO MUNDO
Narrative, Poetry, Essayist
