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Nicknamed the big book by the early aa members for its thick paper and wide margins, the books history began in 1934 when bill wilson, an alcoholic stockbroker who had. 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. Portions of bibliographic data on books is ed by ingram book group inc. Step nine talks about making ameds and of course you have to face what you did wrong in order to do that. Alcoholics anonymous big book 1951 first editions, fourteenth.
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We were having trouble with personal relationships. The fourth edition includes twentyfour new stories that provide contemporary sharing for newcomers seeking recovery from alcoholism in a. I have also been reading the big book and this is one thing that realy struck a cord with me. Inerrant means without error, and it is a concept religious scholars have tried to apply to the christian bible, without success.
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