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An Unconventional Book List in the Spirit of Charlie Munger
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Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
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Timothy Ferriss (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 44,278 ratings
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
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Robert B. Cialdini (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 172,365 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life
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Caroline Webb (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 3,488 ratings
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
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Robert B. Cialdini (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 172,365 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 448,015 ratings
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Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
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4.40 avg rating — 16,394 ratings
score: 256,
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Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger
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4.22 avg rating — 4,787 ratings
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The 48 Laws of Power
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Robert Greene (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 213,961 ratings
score: 252,
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The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
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4.22 avg rating — 13,025 ratings
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Moneyball
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4.27 avg rating — 142,231 ratings
score: 232,
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When Breath Becomes Air
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4.41 avg rating — 776,097 ratings
score: 200,
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Ego Is the Enemy
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Ryan Holiday (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 85,479 ratings
score: 194,
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Man's Search for Meaning
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4.37 avg rating — 842,833 ratings
score: 176,
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10% Happier
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Dan Harris (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 113,886 ratings
score: 161,
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Damn Right!: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger
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4.16 avg rating — 2,886 ratings
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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3.85 avg rating — 90,437 ratings
score: 157,
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 850,842 ratings
score: 157,
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Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution
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4.35 avg rating — 1,015 ratings
score: 154,
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Living within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos
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4.02 avg rating — 220 ratings
score: 154,
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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
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3.96 avg rating — 3,866 ratings
score: 153,
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Models of My Life
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3.77 avg rating — 428 ratings
score: 152,
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
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4.08 avg rating — 28,403 ratings
score: 151,
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Judgment In Managerial Decision Making
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Max H. Bazerman (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 529 ratings
score: 150,
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Getting It Done: How to Lead When You're Not in Charge
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3.52 avg rating — 451 ratings
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Long Walk to Freedom
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4.36 avg rating — 92,846 ratings
score: 149,
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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Steven Pinker (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 22,360 ratings
score: 148,
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How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created our World & Everything in It
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3.94 avg rating — 6,657 ratings
score: 148,
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
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Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 198,836 ratings
score: 148,
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Master of the Game: Steve Ross and the Creation of Time Warner
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3.69 avg rating — 124 ratings
score: 146,
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In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
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Steven Levy (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 29,939 ratings
score: 146,
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Googled: The End of the World as We Know It
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3.66 avg rating — 3,196 ratings
score: 146,
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Fiasco: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader
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3.92 avg rating — 2,240 ratings
score: 145,
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Conspiracy of Fools
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Kurt Eichenwald (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 6,546 ratings
score: 145,
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Les Schwab Pride in Performance: Keep It Going
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4.11 avg rating — 174 ratings
score: 144,
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No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality
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4.13 avg rating — 430 ratings
score: 143,
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The Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century
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3.82 avg rating — 101 ratings
score: 142,
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Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive
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3.97 avg rating — 12,351 ratings
score: 142,
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Latticework: The New Investing
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4.14 avg rating — 1,151 ratings
score: 141,
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The Detective and the Investor: Uncovering Investment Techniques from the Legendary Sleuths
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3.95 avg rating — 38 ratings
score: 141,
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Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points that Challenge Every Company and Career
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3.98 avg rating — 10,265 ratings
score: 140,
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Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
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4.28 avg rating — 42,800 ratings
score: 138,
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A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
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3.94 avg rating — 30,433 ratings
score: 138,
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The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History
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Gregory Zuckerman (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 7,418 ratings
score: 138,
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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4.30 avg rating — 168,753 ratings
score: 138,
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Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
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4.14 avg rating — 89,305 ratings
score: 138,
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The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns
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4.15 avg rating — 25,317 ratings
score: 138,
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Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett
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4.07 avg rating — 223 ratings
score: 138,
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Stumbling on Happiness
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3.82 avg rating — 63,264 ratings
score: 136,
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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
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4.20 avg rating — 11,649 ratings
score: 134,
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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
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4.19 avg rating — 281,230 ratings
score: 132,
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The Power of Persuasion: How We're Bought and Sold
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3.88 avg rating — 438 ratings
score: 100,
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University of Berkshire Hathaway: 30 Years of Lessons Learned from Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger at the Annual Shareholders Meeting
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Daniel Pecaut (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 3,483 ratings
score: 100,
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The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks
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3.69 avg rating — 1,500 ratings
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The Last Lecture
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4.26 avg rating — 360,424 ratings
score: 99,
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
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Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 148,186 ratings
score: 96,
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The Origin of Species / The Voyage of the Beagle
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4.16 avg rating — 702 ratings
score: 91,
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Darwin's Blind Spot: The Role of Living Interactions in Evolution
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Frank Ryan (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 101 ratings
score: 90,
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The Selfish Gene
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 189,933 ratings
score: 89,
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
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4.06 avg rating — 27,750 ratings
score: 88,
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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4.15 avg rating — 36,152 ratings
score: 86,
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 41,299 ratings
score: 81,
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Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information
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3.76 avg rating — 175 ratings
score: 79,
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Ice Age: The Theory That Came In From The Cold!
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4.07 avg rating — 433 ratings
score: 76,
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A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals about the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and Universe
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4.01 avg rating — 247 ratings
score: 75,
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How the Irish Became White
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3.73 avg rating — 1,722 ratings
score: 72,
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Andrew Carnegie
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3.94 avg rating — 126 ratings
score: 71,
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Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
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4.12 avg rating — 1,971 ratings
score: 67,
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Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity
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3.97 avg rating — 1,473 ratings
score: 65,
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Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
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4.19 avg rating — 4,483 ratings
score: 61,
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The Warren Buffett Portfolio
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4.24 avg rating — 1,903 ratings
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Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
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4.26 avg rating — 1,789 ratings
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Distant Force: A Memoir of the Teledyne Corporation and the Man Who Created It
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3.86 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Benjamin Franklin Volume 1
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3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Benjamin Franklin 2
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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On the Genealogy of Morals
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4.12 avg rating — 34,422 ratings
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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 56,406 ratings
score: 36,
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Civilization and Its Discontents
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3.80 avg rating — 43,790 ratings
score: 34,
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The Denial of Death
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4.05 avg rating — 15,358 ratings
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