AA's name derived from its first book, informally called " The Big Book ", originally titled Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered From Alcoholism

Informally known as " The Big Book " ( with its first 164 pages virtually unchanged since the 1939 edition ), it suggests a twelve-step program in which members admit that they are powerless over alcohol and need help from a " higher power "; seek guidance and strength through prayer and meditation from God or Higher Power of their own understanding ; take a moral inventory with care to include resentments ; list and become ready to remove character defects ; list and make amends to those harmed, and then try to help other alcoholics recover.

Eventually he gained formal adoption and inclusion of the Twelve Traditions in all future editions of the Big Book.

The Big Book ( from Alcoholics Anonymous ) states that once a person is an alcoholic, they are always an alcoholic, but does not define what is meant by the term " alcoholic " in this context.

The magazine Book ranked Big Brother No. 59 on its 100 Best Characters in Fiction Since 1900 list.

( 2001 ): The Big Book Of Dinosaurs.

* DC Comics at the Big Comic Book DataBase

* The New Big Book of Jewish Baseball: An Illustrated Encyclopedia & Anecdotal History, Peter S. Horvitz, Joachim Horvitz, Perseus Distribution Services, 2007, ISBN 1-56171-821-1

* The Big Book of Jewish Baseball: An Illustrated Encyclopedia & Anecdotal History, Peter S. Horvitz, Joachim Horvitz, SP Books, 2001, ISBN 1-56171-973-0

* In 1931 Kit Carson was the subject of J. Carroll Mansfield's daily comic strip High Lights of History, collected as a Big Little Book, Kit Carson ( 1933 ).

* Big Book ( thought experiment )

The most successful pulp magazines were Argosy, Adventure, Blue Book and Short Stories described by some pulp historians as " The Big Four ".

His work can be found in other compilations, including The Big Book of the Weird, Wild West, in which Aragonés illustrates a retelling of the Donner Party incident.

In the BBC's 2003 Big Read contest, viewers voted on the " Nation's Best-loved Book "; Mort was among the Top 100 and chosen as the most popular of Pratchett's novels.

* The Big Book of War

:* The Viz Big Fat Slags Book ( 1994 )

Big Book of Ben, The ( 2007 ), " pollock / pollack ", p. 32

* Big Book ( ethics )

Notable examples include Polyester Books in Melbourne, Australia ; Cafe Royal in the UK ; Reading Frenzy and Powell's in Portland, OR ; Needles and Pens in San Francisco ; Atomic Books in Baltimore ; Quimby's in Chicago ; Mac's Backs Paperbacks in Cleveland, OH ; Boxcar Books in Bloomington, Indiana ; Wooden Shoe Books in Philadelphia ; Civic Media Center in Gainesville, FL ; Bluestockings in New York City ; Five in Charleston, SC ; Brian MacKenzie Infoshop in Washington, DC ; Book Beat & Co. in Oklahoma City, OK ; Printed Matter in New York City ; Copacetic Comics Co. and Big Idea Bookstore in Pittsburgh, PA ; Reading Material in Tokyo, Japan ; On Reading in Nagoya, Japan ; as well as MonkeyWrench Books and Domy Books in Austin, TX.

Western Publishing's Big Little Book series based most of its Mickey volumes on the strip ; Dell Publishing's Walt Disney's Comics and Stories serialized stories from the strip through 1948.

* Crisis on Infinite Earths at the Big Comic Book DataBase

The Eighth Doctor discovers a new incarnation of the Monk in the Big Finish Productions audio drama The Book of Kells.

* James, Gary The Big Book Of City, James Ward, 2009

* The Jetsons # 1 – 5 ( Harvey Comics, September 1992 – November 1993 ); Big Book # 1 – 3, Giant Size # 1 – 3

Uncle Don's Strange Adventures, a 1936 Big Little Book series | Big Little Book, featured a story about radio host Uncle Don and his adventures with a mystery cruiser.

Although the history of the Big Apple was once thought a mystery, research over the past two decades, primarily by amateur etymologist Barry Popik and Gerald Cohen of Missouri University of Science and Technology, has provided a reasonably clear picture of the term's history.

A group of seventeen authors headed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology reported the discovery of at least one Ivory-billed Woodpecker, a male, in the Big Woods area of Arkansas in 2004 and 2005, publishing the report in the journal Science on 28 April 2005 ( Fitzpatrick et al., 2005 ).

Big Science flourished, especially after the Second World War, as funding for science increased.

Lawrence was a forceful advocate of " Big Science " with its requirements for big machines and big money.

" She produced visualizations for the Hayden's " Big Bang Theatre " and worked with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science to produce high-resolution data-driven visualizations of terabytes of scientific data for " Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity ," a digital dome program on black holes.

* Big Science

Big Fleas Have Little Fleas: How Discoveries of Invertebrate Diseases Are Advancing Modern Science University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 208 pages, ISBN 0-8165-2544-7.

* The Big Bad BAC: Bacterial Artificial Chromosomes — a review from the Science Creative Quarterly

Lawrence courted government as his sponsor in the early years of the Manhattan Project, the American effort to produce the first atomic bomb during World War II, and along with Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins ( which helped develop the proximity fuse ), and the MIT Radiation Laboratory ( which helped to develop radar ) ushered in the era of " Big Science ".

* A Century of Physics at Berkeley: Seedtime for " Big Science ", 1930-1950

* Big Dumb Objects at the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 3rd edition

The museum features four main galleries: The Weinman Mineral Gallery, The Fossil Gallery, Science in Motion and The Collins Family My Big Backyard.

* Walter E. Grunden-Historian, Professor at Bowling Green State University, author of Secret Weapons & World War II: Japan in the Shadow of Big Science

" O Superman " was part of a larger stage work titled United States and was included on the album Big Science.

Prior to the release of Big Science, Anderson returned to Giorno Poetry Systems to record the album You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With ; Anderson recorded one side of the 2-LP set, with William S. Burroughs and John Giorno recording a side each, and the fourth side featured a separate groove for each artist.

Recent releases include a re-release of her first album, Big Science on Nonesuch Records, a book of drawings titled Night Life, and a brand new album released in 2010 called Homeland.

* Big Science ( 1982 ) US No. 124 UK No. 29

*" Big Science " ( 1981 )

*" Big Science 2 " ( 2007 ) ( Currently available only on iTunes )

Readers soon began to seek out books with his strikingly unusual and exotic name on the cover — The Science Fiction Galaxy ( 1950 ), The Big Book of Science Fiction ( 1950 ) and Possible Worlds of Science Fiction ( 1951 ).

* Big Book of Science Fiction ( 1950 ) Variant Title: The Classic Book of Science Fiction ( 1978 )

Along with the production of the atomic bomb, World War II also saw the entrance of an era known as " Big Science " with increased government patronage of scientific research.