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Psychoanalytic Perspectives On Intense Involvement in Sports

Psychoanalytic Perspectives On Intense Involvement in Sports

This book is a unique volume that brings a variety of psychoanalytic perspectives to the study of sport. It highlights the importance of sports for different individuals and how the function and use of sports can be brought into the consulting room. Passionate interest in actively engaging in sports is a universal phenomenon. It is striking that this aspect of human life prior to this volume has received little attention in the literature of psychoanalysis. This edited volume is comprised largely of psychoanalysts who are themselves avidly involved with sports. It is suggested that intense involvement in sports prioritizes commitment and active engagement over passivity and that such involvement provides an emotionally tinged distraction from the various misfortunes of life. Indeed the ups and downs in mood related to athletic victory or defeat often supplant temporarily matters in life that may be more personally urgent. Engaging in sports or rooting for teams provides a feeling of community and a sense of identification with like-minded others even among those who are part of other communities and have sufficient communal identifications. This book offers a better psychoanalytic understanding of sports to help us discover more about ourselves our patients and our culture and will be of great interest to psychotherapists and psychoanalysts or anyone with an interest in sport and its link to psychoanalysis and mental health. | Psychoanalytic Perspectives On Intense Involvement in Sports

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A Beam of Intense Darkness Wilfred Bion's Legacy to Psychoanalysis

A Beam of Intense Darkness Wilfred Bion's Legacy to Psychoanalysis

Written by pioneering analyst and creative thinker James Grotstein A Beam of Intense Darkness offers a thorough overview and illuminating insight into the often-complex work of W. R. Bion. This psychoanalytic classic sees Grotstein introduce over 30 key Bionian theories comprehensively explaining them to the reader before offering his own insight and commentary. Grotstein first encountered Bion as his analysand and later as his friend. This book offers a level of insight only possible through such a close relationship and offers a dialogue between Bion and Grotstein as they delve into the inner workings of the human psyche. Throughout Grotstein offers his own original thoughts on topics such as projective transidentification transcendent position and the truth drive. With a new introduction from Nicola Abel-Hirsch this book is an essential read for anyone interested in Bion’s work and legacy. | A Beam of Intense Darkness Wilfred Bion's Legacy to Psychoanalysis

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Global Leadership and Coaching Flourishing under intense pressure at work

Global Leadership and Coaching Flourishing under intense pressure at work

Global Leadership & Coaching: Flourishing Under Intense Pressure at Work is a unique and personal look at coaching leading and working internationally bringing together inspiring original and dramatic stories of leadership from around the world. From war zones to refugee camps prisons to hospitals elite sport to supermarkets each case study draws on psychoanalytic below the surface thinking to analyse interpret and understand a leader’s decisions motivations and fears. Rachel Ellison’s inter-cultural approach takes us to Afghanistan Syria and Iraq Sudan Somalia and the Central African Republic to Honduras the Czech Republic the USA and the UK. Global Leadership & Coaching presents a series of individual case studies from Ellison’s own experiences working with senior commercial public and third sector leaders across 35 different countries cultures and organisational contexts. Compellingly written this book explores the a diverse range of themes to consider when managing risk danger and extreme emotional stress in some of the most hazardous and challenging work environments. Throughout the text leaders share their stories of learning how to lead and develop others. Accessible engaging and original research Global Leadership & Coaching: Flourishing Under Intense Pressure at Work is essential reading for today’s leaders and aspiring leaders looking to develop themselves personally and professionally. This book is also a resource for coaches and coach supervisors. Global Leadership & Coaching provides contemporary practical and applicable examples of excellence in leadership for individuals and organisations seeking to develop a high performance reflective and reflexive corporate learning culture which enables employees to successfully navigate challenge increase productivity and find joy in coming to work. | Global Leadership and Coaching Flourishing under intense pressure at work

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Americanness Inquiries into the Thought and Culture of the United States

Americanness Inquiries into the Thought and Culture of the United States

Americanness: Inquiries into the Thought and Culture of the United States analyzes several core themes that connect Americans because of and despite their pronounced diversity. The book investigates shared ideas and ideals such as individualism mobility materialism and future-orientation that drive an overarching American worldview. Simon J. Bronner begins with ideas of space and time as they formed and changed through the history of the United States before moving to the emergence of modern American culture. He examines reasons America is characterized as having a victory culture that extends to the American legal military and business complexes. This victory culture is further analyzed by looking at the country’s relationship with the game of football—a sport that thrives in America but has not caught on in other countries. Finally the volume probes American consumerism driven by a desire for individual prosperity in a supposedly egalitarian society. Using interdisciplinary approaches drawn from psychology sociology ethnology and history Bronner seeks explanations for people invoking and evoking ideas that they perceive as American. This book would be an invaluable addition to courses on American history sociology cultural studies and American studies. | Americanness Inquiries into the Thought and Culture of the United States

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The War in Burma

The War in Burma

This book first published in 1948 is an in-depth examination of the campaigns in Burma following the Japanese invasion in 1942 until after the surrender in 1945. The author a military observer under Admiral Mountbatten offers here impartial judgements and an objective narrative. He analyses the initial British failures the straining of Anglo-American relations the overcoming of military difficulties and the final victory of the combined British Indian American and Chinese forces. The book gives a clear and comprehensive look at the Burma war puts it into perspective and does not shy away from controversy over the management of the Allied campaign. | The War in Burma

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Fascism Populism and American Democracy

Fascism Populism and American Democracy

Hard right-wing politics is growing in popularity in America marked by Donald Trump’s success in the 2016 election and it is worth questioning what this means for the American democratic system. This book seeks to explain the vulnerability of democracies to the appeal of right-wing politics through a contemporary case study of the US and how democracies are possibly under threat from a conflict between popular attitudes and institutional paralysis. Various forms of American right-wing extremism are examined here such as the alt-right the radical right and the Religious right but their perceived relevance to Trump’s victory is questioned. Even still this book asks the question: can the far-right prevail under the American way? | Fascism Populism and American Democracy

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Anxiously Attached Understanding and Working with Preoccupied Attachment

Anxiously Attached Understanding and Working with Preoccupied Attachment

Anxiously attached individuals feel chronically insecure and their relationships are often intense angry and enmeshed. In the spectrum of anxious attachment some people tip into states of acute rumination following specific life events while an extreme manifestation may be thought of as borderline borderline - inescapable brooding raging and inability to separate. Preoccupied clients can be difficult to work with and these therapies often feel stuck or end badly. Anxiously Attached contains four papers presented at a conference in February 2016. They address the origins of anxious attachment in specific features of parent-infant relationships findings from research about developmental aspects typical features concerns and defences in adults and how these may be presented in psychotherapy. Enmeshed dynamics in adult relationships including the therapeutic relationship are also highlighted where threat of separation and loss activate intense attachment seeking. The aim is to increase understanding of preoccupied clients from an attachment perspective to recognise the nature of their anxieties and resistances and propose specific skills for therapeutic work. | Anxiously Attached Understanding and Working with Preoccupied Attachment

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The Development of British Naval Aviation 1914–1918

The Development of British Naval Aviation 1914–1918

The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) revolutionized warfare at sea on land and in the air. This little-known naval aviation organization introduced and operationalized aircraft carrier strike aerial anti-submarine warfare strategic bombing and the air defence of the British Isles more than 20 years before the outbreak of the Second World War. Traditionally marginalized in a literature dominated by the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Air Force the RNAS and its innovative practitioners nevertheless shaped the fundamentals of air power and contributed significantly to the Allied victory in the First World War. The Development of British Naval Aviation utilizes archival documents and newly published research to resurrect the legacy of the RNAS and demonstrate its central role in Britain’s war effort. | The Development of British Naval Aviation 1914–1918

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Horror Noire A History of Black American Horror from the 1890s to Present

Horror Noire A History of Black American Horror from the 1890s to Present

From King Kong to Candyman the boundary-pushing genre of horror film has always been a site for provocative explorations of race in American popular culture. This book offers a comprehensive chronological survey of Black horror from the 1890s to present day. In this second edition Robin R. Means Coleman expands upon the history of notable characterizations of Blackness in horror cinema with new chapters spanning the 1960s 2000s and 2010s to the present and examines key levels of Black participation on screen and behind the camera. The book addresses a full range of Black horror films including mainstream Hollywood fare art-house films Blaxploitation films and U. S. hip-hop culture-inspired Nollywood films. This new edition also explores the resurgence of the Black horror genre in the last decade examining the success of Jordan Peele’s films Get Out (2017) and Us (2019) smaller independent films such as The House Invictus (2018) and Nia DaCosta’s sequel to Candyman (2021). Means Coleman argues that horror offers a unique representational space for Black people to challenge negative or racist portrayals and to portray greater diversity within the concept of Blackness itself. This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how fears and anxieties about race and race relations are made manifest and often challenged on the silver screen. | Horror Noire A History of Black American Horror from the 1890s to Present

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Heavy Metal at the Movies

Heavy Metal at the Movies

The chapters collected in this volume shed light on the areas of interaction between film studies and heavy metal research exploring how the audio-visual medium of film relates to builds on and shapes metal culture. At one end of the spectrum metal music serves as a form of ambient background in horror films that creates an intense and somewhat threatening atmosphere; at the other end the high level of performativity attached to the metal spectacle is emphasized. Alongside these tendencies the recent and ongoing wave of metal documentaries has taken off relying on either satire or hagiography. | Heavy Metal at the Movies

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New Labour's State of Health Political Economy Public Policy and the NHS

New Labour's State of Health Political Economy Public Policy and the NHS

In this timely and unique work Calum Paton assesses the political economy and politics of current health policy in order to explain the underlying causes of problems in the National Health Service. Debates from political theory political economy and public administration are used to examine health policy made and implemented by New Labour since their election victory in 1997. The author argues that the fundamental nature of health policy is dependent upon the prevailing regime in political economy and also that 'policy overload' contradictions and confusion have rendered the task of coherent implementation very difficult. Although there is implicit comparison the primary focus is England within the UK (post-devolution) and the book provides a detailed examination of contemporary health policy. Written by an established scholar in the field it will particularly interest academics post-graduate students and professionals in health policy social policy and politics. | New Labour's State of Health Political Economy Public Policy and the NHS

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Sadism Psychoanalytic Developmental Perspectives

Sadism Psychoanalytic Developmental Perspectives

Sadism: Psychoanalytic Developmental Perspectives is founded on the premise that paying close attention to what is happening in our internal world can help us understand the rise of sadism in the world of popular culture. Voyeuristic sadism as a form of entertainment appears to be on the rise an increase corresponding with an upsurge in public appetite for sadomasochism as a recreational activity. This book acts as a forum in which psychotherapists present psychoanalytic perspectives on the phenomenon of sadomasochism at different stages of the human lifecycle: in childhood adolescence adulthood and in later life and consider its developmental roots. Over the last half-century through books movies computerized video games and drama the stories we are being sold as representing aspects of contemporary culture market two commodities: sadism and victory. How might we understand this and can psychoanalysis help us make meaning of this aspect of human relating? | Sadism Psychoanalytic Developmental Perspectives

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President McKinley War and Empire President McKinley and the Coming of War 1898

President McKinley War and Empire President McKinley and the Coming of War 1898

The progressive reading of history focuses on two major antecedents for the origins of the United States' 1898 war with Spain: the 1896 presidential election and the Hearst-Pulitzer press war that reportedly generated an irresistible clamor from an aroused public. Underlying those narratives are two very different theoretical frameworks: a class-dominance view and that of the mass society. Volume 1 of President McKinley War and Empire assesses the adequacy of those readings. In the 1896 election the Republicans led by William McKinley were challenged by William Jennings Bryan a radical and an inflationist who had defeated the conservative leaders of the Democratic Party. The Bryanites portrayed the 1896 election as a struggle between Wall Street and the people. McKinley was portrayed as a docile pliable figure whose campaign was directed by an adept Ohio business magnate Mark Hanna. The McKinley victory meant that big business was now in control. The Cuban insurgency begun in 1895 gained attention and support from the American newspapers. This began with a circulation war in New York City with Hearst and Pulitzer publishing sensational reports about the struggle in Cuba. The resulting public clamor it is said overwhelmed the members of the legislative and executive branches. McKinley and his advisors fended off those demands as best they could but following the sinking of the Maine he conceded and asked Congress to authorize intervention. This work provides an original assessment of those long-standing claims the basic elements of the progressive history. It reviews McKinley's biography principally the events leading up to his election victory including discussion of Hanna's role. It then examines the events leading up to the war. Studies of press content are reviewed and new material is introduced. The work also argues that two other factors were decisive: the efforts of an adept Cuban pressure group and partisan politics. The theoretical implications are explored and an alternative framework elitism is argued. The result is a different a more complex view of the origins of the war. | President McKinley War and Empire President McKinley and the Coming of War 1898

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Political Landscapes of Donald Trump

Political Landscapes of Donald Trump

This book delves into the life and work of President Donald Trump who is arguably the most famous and controversial person in the world today. While his administration has received enormous attention few have studied the spatial dimensions of his policies. Political Landscapes of Donald Trump explores the geographies of Trump from multiple conceptual standpoints. It contextualizes Donald and his rise to power within the geography of his victory in 2016. Several essays in the book are concerned with his white ethno-nationalist political platform and social bases of support. Others focus on Trump’s use of Twitter his ties to professional wrestling and his innumerable lies and deceits. Yet another set delves into the geopolitics of his foreign policies notably in Cuba Korea the Middle East and China. Finally it covers how his administration has addressed – or failed to address – climate change and its treatment of undocumented immigrants. This book will be of interest to anyone interested in the Trump administration as well as social scientists and the informed lay public.

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The Elections in Israel 2015

The Elections in Israel 2015

The newest volume in the Elections in Israel series focuses on the twentieth Knesset elections held in March 2015 following the collapse of the third Netanyahu government. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s main opposition party the Zionist Camp ran a negative personalized election campaign assuming that Israelis had grown tired of him. Netanyahu however achieved a surprising and dramatic victory by enhancing and radicalizing the same identity politics strategies that helped him win in 1996. The Elections in Israel 2015 dissects these and other campaigns from the perspective of the voters the media and opinion polls the political parties and electoral competition. Several contributors delve into the Left and Arab fear mongering Likud campaign which produced strategic identity voting. Other contributions analyze in-depth the Israeli party and electoral systems highlighting the exceptional decline of the mainstream parties and the adoption of a higher electoral threshold. Providing a close analysis of electoral competition legitimacy struggles stability and change in the voting behavior of various groups partisanship personalization and political polarization this volume is a crucial record of Israeli political history.

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NAFTA and Democracy in Mexico A Successful Failure?

NAFTA and Democracy in Mexico A Successful Failure?

After describing NAFTA as ‘the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere’ Donald Trump’s election seemed to represent the final nail in the coffin for North American economic integration. Following a decade of stagnation however Trump’s victory presents a timely opportunity to reconsider North American integration and evaluate NAFTA’s democratic track record in Mexico. In this book Pablo Calderón Martínez presents a detailed analysis of NAFTA’s influence as a political tool for democracy in Mexico. Extending beyond a mere economic or social exploration of the consequences of NAFTA Calderón Martínez uses a three-tiered analysis based on causality mechanisms to explain how the interactions between internationalisation and democratisation unfolded in Mexico. Calderón Martínez’s analysis demonstrates that Mexico’s internationalisation project under the framework of NAFTA gave shape to if not made Mexico’s democratisation process. An original and timely resource for scholars and students interested in understanding how – in cases like Mexico where transitions to democracy are characterised by a finely poised balance of power – small influences from abroad can make significant long-lasting differences domestically. | NAFTA and Democracy in Mexico A Successful Failure?

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Examining Educational Policy in Latin America Comprehensive Insights into Contemporary Reform

Examining Educational Policy in Latin America Comprehensive Insights into Contemporary Reform

This book synthesizes and analyzes the complex map of educational reforms in Latin America in the first two decades of the 21st century. The book offers insights into the agendas processes and political economy of educational reforms in Argentina Brazil Chile Colombia Mexico and Peru. Written by renowned contributors from each country chapters present systematic critical and reflective accounts of an intense period of education reforms. The book fills a gap in educational research and provides a systematic study that compares the cases analyzed. The first broad comparative collection of its kind the book is well-suited to courses in international and comparative education policy. | Examining Educational Policy in Latin America Comprehensive Insights into Contemporary Reform

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Parent Involvement for Motivated Learners Encouraging Self-Directed and Resilient Students

Parent Involvement for Motivated Learners Encouraging Self-Directed and Resilient Students

Parent Involvement for Motivated Learners provides pre-service teachers and researchers with guidance on how to foster mindful healthy school–family partnerships that empower students to become resilient self-directed learners. Given the intense academic pressures on students to succeed – and on parents and teachers to help them do so – it is important to develop learners who can weather increased standards and demands. Committed to helping teachers reflect on how parent involvement relates to motivational concepts such as the growth mindset self-regulated learning and intrinsic motivation to learn this book is an accessible synthesis of relevant research and theory surrounding student motivation and parent involvement. | Parent Involvement for Motivated Learners Encouraging Self-Directed and Resilient Students

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The Scottish Enlightenment A Social History

The Scottish Enlightenment A Social History

Originally published in 1976 this book discusses the relationship of the age of intellectual enlightenment in Scotland to the age of economic improvement and analyses the Scottish Enlightenment from a more sociological point of view. It describes the intense period of high intellectual endeavour and activity that took place in the resorts of the cultural social Scottish elite in 18th and early 19th Century Scotland. It discusses the crucial place of lawyers in 18th Century Scottish society and examines the intellectual features of the Scottish university system charting the rise of the societies clubs and other institutions such as the Encyclopaedia Britannica and The Edinburgh Review. | The Scottish Enlightenment A Social History

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The Letters of Wyndham Lewis

The Letters of Wyndham Lewis

Originally published in 1963 and edited by an authority on Wyndham Lewis (whom he also knew personally) this volume made available for the first time over 500 letters of Wyndham Lewis who for half a century was a dynamic force among English artists and intellectuals. Culturally Lewis played the dual role of innovator and iconoclast. Lewis’s letters show the wide range of his interests as well as his great verbal energy and unrelenting intellect. Lewis knew most of the significant artists and writers of his time and some of them – Augustus John Pound Eliot and Joyce were his lifelong friends and chief correspondents. Regardless of to whom he was writing he displayed his intense awareness of the personalities and currents around him. | The Letters of Wyndham Lewis

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Planning for Protraction A Historically Informed Approach to Great-power War and Sino-US Competition

Planning for Protraction A Historically Informed Approach to Great-power War and Sino-US Competition

As Sino-US relations have deteriorated concerns have grown in Washington over its ability to defeat China in a major conflict. A conflict between such peer competitors would likely become a protracted war of attrition drawing on all dimensions of national power but this reality has yet to receive a sufficient degree of analytical attention. In this Adelphi book Iskander Rehman provides a historically informed and empirically grounded study of protracted great-power war its core drivers and characteristics and an examination of the elements that have most often determined a competitor’s long-term strategic performance. Final victory in a protracted conflict this book argues rests on a combination of three core factors: a state’s military effectiveness and adaptability its socio-economic power and resiliency and the soundness of its alliance management and grand strategy. A detailed analysis of the contemporary Sino-US rivalry assesses how both parties might fare in the event of a protracted war while highlighting some of its key differentiating aspects – most notably its nuclear and cyber dimensions. | Planning for Protraction A Historically Informed Approach to Great-power War and Sino-US Competition

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The Muslim Conquest and Settlement of North Africa and Spain

The Muslim Conquest and Settlement of North Africa and Spain

In the seventh and eighth centuries the Muslim Arabs conquered large areas of North Africa and then with the help of their former adversaries in North Africa the Berbers gained a decisive victory over the Visigoths in Spain. This book first published in 1989 and based on Arabic and other sources describes the process of conquest and settlement first depicting the lack of unity in North Africa and the corruption and insolvency in Spain that made the advance possible. It provides an invaluable classification of the Arab and Berber settlers in Spain by tribal origin area of settlement and time of entry. The book emphasises throughout the importance of the economic and administrative relationship between North Africa and Spain. It charts the growing resentment of the early settlers in Spain with the restrictions on their autonomy imposed by the Governor-General of North Africa and the caliphate. It describes the rising tensions between old and new settlers and between the different tribal groups finally leading to the Berber revolt and Abdulrahman’s consolidation of power towards the end of the Umayyad caliphate. | The Muslim Conquest and Settlement of North Africa and Spain

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Historical Wig Styling: Victorian to the Present

Historical Wig Styling: Victorian to the Present

Historical Wig Styling: Victorian to the Present 2nd edition is a guide to creating beautiful historically accurate hairstyles for theatrical productions and events. This volume covers hairstyles from the Victorian era through the contemporary styles of today. Chapters begin with an overview of historic figures and styles that influenced the look of each period followed by step-by-step instructions and photographs showing the finished look from every angle. The book also explores the necessary supplies and styling products needed to create the perfect coif tips for proper wig handling a brief history of the makeup for each historical period and basic styling techniques useful when working with wigs or real hair. New hairstyles featured in this edition include: - Civil War era women - Late Victorian African-American men - 1910s' Full width style women - 1920s' glossy waves - 1940s' Victory rolls - 1950s' Poodle updos - 1960s' flips With over 1 000 full-color images and detailed instructions on how to create iconic hairstyles and makeup Historical Wig Styling: Victorian to the Present 2nd edition is an excellent resource for professional costume designers and wig makers as well as for students of Costume Design and Wig Making and Styling courses.

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Maritime Strategy and Sea Control Theory and Practice

Maritime Strategy and Sea Control Theory and Practice

This book focuses on the key naval strategic objectives of obtaining and maintaining sea control. During times of war sea control or the ability of combatants to enjoy naval dominance plays a crucial role in that side’s ability to attain overall victory. This book explains and analyzes in much greater detail sea control in all its complexities and describes the main methods of obtaining and maintaining it. Building on the views of naval classical thinkers this book utilizes historical examples to illustrate the main methods of sea control. Each chapter focuses on a particular method including destroying the enemy forces by a decisive action destroying enemy forces over time-attrition containing enemy fleet choke point control and capturing important enemy's positions/basing area The aim is to provide a comprehensive theory and practice of the struggle for sea control at the operational level. It should therefore provide a guide to practitioners on how to plan and conduct operational warfare at sea. The book will be of much interest to students of naval strategy defence studies and security studies. | Maritime Strategy and Sea Control Theory and Practice

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