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To the casual observer, ELTBooks Japan looked like just another publisher. But to the sensei —the battle-hardened university professors and nervous eikaiwa (conversation school) managers—ELTBooks was a legend. They weren't the biggest (that was Oxford University Press). They weren't the flashiest (that was National Geographic Learning). ELTBooks was the craftsman . They specialized in books for the "Silver" generation—retirees who wanted to learn travel English—and for technical colleges where students needed to read maintenance manuals for German printing presses. With Flex , you choose the topic
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