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Oct 12, 2017 one of many good places to begin is in alcoholics anonymous aka the big book, specifically chapter 4, we agnostics. We didnt become addicted in one day, so remembereasy does it. Home read the big book and twelve steps and twelve traditions. The anonymous press po box 1212 malo wa 991501212 800 8004398 fax 5097794339. The little big book dictionary has sold over 250,000 copies since its first edition release to the aa community in october of 1998. Impunity exemption or freedom from punishment, harm or loss. Our aim is to responsibly serve those needs with integrity. The subject presented in this book seems to me to be of paramount importance to those afflicted with alcoholic addiction. The narcotics anonymous it workshow and why dictionary paperback booklet.
Words above an elementary reading level are defined according to their use in the main part of the book. The popular title for the multiauthored book, alcoholics anonymous, first published in 1939 and periodically updated, which contains personal stories and testimonials from alcoholics and which laid out the original 12step program to recovery. This is the fourth edition of the big book, the basic text for alcoholics anonymous. To read a pdf version of the fourth edition of alcoholics anonymous. Alcoholics anonymous big books abookman, a book man. Select the continue shopping button in order to return to the recovery shop website.
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