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Manufacturer: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 362
EAN: 9781893007178
ISBN: 1893007170
Label: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.
Manufacturer: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 575
Publication Date: 2002-02-10
Publisher: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.
Studio: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.

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It's more than a book. It's a way of life.

Alcoholics Anonymous-The Big Book-has served as a lifeline to millions worldwide. First published in 1939, Alcoholics Anonymous sets forth cornerstone concepts of recovery from alcoholism and tells the stories of men and women who have overcome the disease. With publication of the second edition in 1955, the third edition in 1976, and now the fourth edition in 2001, the essential recovery text has remained unchanged while personal stories have been added to reflect the growing and diverse fellowship. The long-awaited fourth edition features 24 new personal stories of recovery.

Key features and benefits
·the most widely used resource for millions of individuals in recovery
·contains full, original text describing A.A. the program
·updated with 24 new personal stories

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Summary: Alcoholics Anonymous--(The Big Book)
Comment: If you're struggling with alcohol, this is your Bible. It is essential to have and read this book if you have any hope of freeing yourself from alcohol. This book will only help (in most cases) in conjunction with other steps one needs to to take to heal. The first and foremost is joining AA and working through the steps with a sponsor and the support of your AA group. If you think you might need help with an alcohol problem, you do!

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Summary: Its Time Has Passed
Comment: This overhyped book is basically for people of low worth and low intellect who won't face the truth about this dishonest cult of ignorance, ego and hypocrisy. After all these years and four editions (plenty of time to correct itself) it's still attributing a quote to Herbert Spencer that he never made... and that's only the start of of the unexamined claims and sick pieties of this "book." You don't want to drink, don't drink. You don't need to get maudlin about it, and kneejerk sickening sentimentality is all you'll find in this "Big Book." Steer clear of it and the attached cult.

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Summary: This book has saved hundreds of thousands of liveslives!
Comment: This book tells exactly how hundreds of thousands of real alcoholics have been saved from alcoholism. How can anyone be critical of that if it works? Only the stupid, or ignorant can criticize a book which has literally saved so many people from certain death (not to mention the thousands more they could have victimized).
It is truly a miracle, by virtue of all of the people it has saved.
True, there are thousands more who have failed the program of recovery this book details, but in that is the reason. They failed to do exactly what this book directs them to do. The book didn't fail them.

I personally know a few real alcoholics who were on their last legs when this book came into their lives. All who followed and embraced it's teachings are sober. The one who failed at it would not do what it directed him to do. He died eventually with wet brain (the non technical term for Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome).
I implore anyone with drinking problems to get this book and seek out AA.

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Summary: AA Big Book MP3
Comment: Hi there,

I strongly recommend the Audio mp3 version of the Big book: Alcoholics Anonymous: Big Book, Original Edition

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Summary: Maybe the most often recommended book for any Recovery program
Comment: What can be added to a book that has been around since 1939 and is still read after a quadrillion people have read it? By following the stories of the various people who have recovered from alcoholism, the "main idea" will certainly hit you. What idea? When it dawns, you'll know.

If the dawn has come already, you will find strength and hope in all of your relationships.

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