A handbook for newcomers to Alcoholics Anonymous providing program principles and historical references.
The basic text for Alcoholics Anonymous.
This basic text for AA members and groups around the world lays out the principles by which members recover and by which the fellowship functions.
Charlotte Hunter, Billye Jones, and Joan Zieger, Women Pioneers in 12 Step Recovery (Center City, MN: Hazelden, 1999), 81–82. Felicia R. Lee, “My Name Is the Big Book. MyFuture Is Open,” New York Times, June 14, 2004, available online ...
Twelve Step Sponsorship is the first truly comprehensive look at sponsorship, a role recovering people benefit from both as sponsees and ultimately as sponsors.
Writing the Big Book brings exhaustive research, academic discipline, and informed insight to the subject not seen since Ernest Kurtz’s Not-God, published forty years ago.
In US of AA, Miller shares the never-before-told story of how in the aftermath of prohibition America's top scientists helped launch a movement that would give rise to a multi-million-dollar treatment industry and a new government agency ...
This is a book of reflections by A.A. members for A.A. members.
This collection of personal stories from AA Grapevine focuses on the challenges faced by alcoholics who are young in years--as well as the life-changing sober joys that await them.
Drawing from thirty-five years of clinical practice and firsthand accounts submitted by addicts, Dr. Dodes explores the entire story of AA’s rise—from its origins in early fundamentalist religious and mystical beliefs to its present-day ...
This well researched, painstakingly documented book provides detailed information on the right-wing evangelical organization (Oxford Group Movement) that gave birth to AA; the relation of AA and its program to the Oxford Group Movement; AA ...