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All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. Alcoholics anonymous big book by alcoholics anonymous. It is the basic text of the fellowship of alcoholics anonymous, and has helped large numbers of alcoholic men and women, young and old, recover. The anonymous press concordance to alcoholics anonymous the anonymous press on. Big book dictionary alcoholics anonymous aa dictionary. A concordance to alcoholics anonymous 1990 edition open. It is fully searchable and printable, formatted for screen viewing download size about 477k. Big book index alcoholics anonymous books, software. Big book definition of big book by medical dictionary.
The big book the main 164 pages, prayers, personal stories, and more. In order to discover the meaning of the words in our basic textbook, alcoholics anonymous, as they were written, we have prepared this glossary using websters daily use dictionary published in 1934. Copyright alcoholics anonymous world services, inc. I still cant figure out why aa central services doesnt officially approve it as officially. It is the basic text of the fellowship of alcoholics anonymous, and has helped large numbers of alcoholic men and women, young and old, recover as of december 2009, 30,664,881 copies of the big book have been sold or otherwise. Sorting and rendering passages in the proprietary format of the 164 and more concordance does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either.
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