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Alcoholics Anonymous : the story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.
LIBRA HV5275 .W15 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alcoholics--Rehabilitation.
- Alcoholics.
- Alcoholism--Treatment.
- Alcoholism.
- Alcoholics Anonymous.
- Alcoholism--therapy.
- Psychology, Social.
- Medical Subjects:
- Alcoholism--therapy.
- Psychology, Social.
- Physical Description:
- xxxii, 575 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Fourth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York City : Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, 2001.
- Summary:
- 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 AA program updated with 24 new personal stories
- Contents:
- Bill's story
- There is a solution
- More about alcoholism
- We agnostics
- How it works
- Into action
- Working with others
- To wives
- The family afterward
- To employers
- A vision for you
- Personal stories
- I: Pioneers of A.A.
- Doctor Bob's nightmare
- Alcoholic anonymous number three
- Gratitude in action
- Women suffer too
- Our southern friend
- The vicious cycle
- Jim's story
- The man who mastered fear
- He sold himself short
- The keys of the kingdom
- II: They stopped in time
- The missing link
- Fear of fear
- The housewife who drank at home
- Physician, heal thyself!
- My chance to live
- Student of life
- Crossing the river of denial
- Because I'm an alcoholic
- It might have been worse
- Tightrope
- Flooded with feeling
- Winner takes all
- Me an alcoholic?
- The perpetual quest
- A drunk, like you
- Acceptance was the answer
- Window of opportunity
- III: They lost nearly all
- My bottle, my resentment, and me-He lived only to drink
- Safe haven
- Listening to the wind
- Twice gifted
- Building a new life
- On the move
- A vision of recovery
- Gutter bravado
- Empty on the inside
- Grounded
- Another chance
- A late start
- Freedom from bondage
- A.A. taught him to handle sobriety.
- ISBN:
- 1893007162
- 9781893007161
- 1893007170
- 9781893007178
- OCLC:
- 49743393
- Online:
- Publisher description
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