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

* 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.

The success of the young Italians let them make business deals with the leading Jewish and Irish criminals of the era, including Dutch Schultz, Owney " the Killer " Madden and William " Big Bill " Dwyer.

Speakers included all six civil-rights leaders of the so called, " Big Six "; Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish religious leaders ; and labor leader Walter Reuther.

* French Holocaust Denier on Ban of Al-Manar: ' The Big Lie of the Alleged Holocaust ... is the Shield of Jewish Tyranny ...

600 boxes of candy were also delivered to the presidents of the Jewish, Protestant and Catholic Big Sister groups of New York.

* Novak, William & Waldoks, Moshe Big Book of Jewish Humour, originally published by Harper Perennial ( 1981 ) ISBN 0-06-090917-X.

Their included Romanian-language translations of classic Yiddish theater pieces such as the bittersweet Dos Groise Ghivens ( The Big Lottery Ticket, a musical based on a story by Sholom Aleichem ) and S. Ansky's The Dybbuk as well as new pieces, and performances of works by the acceptably Jewish Jacques Offenbach and Louis Verneuil.

Claman is a Big Sister in the Big Brother / Big Sister program at the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services of Manhattan.

" Big Jew on Campus: The Jewish obsession ", Jerusalem Post Blog Central, December 11, 2005.

In the sixth season Big Al decided to embrace his Jewish heritage and reverted to his family surname, Barkowitz.

In 1983 he lost a close and contentious election for Mayor of Chicago ; he would have become the city's first Jewish mayor, and its first Republican mayor since William " Big Bill " Thompson was defeated in 1931.

In that year he converted to Christianity He was named the 117th-greatest Jewish athlete in the 2007 book The Big Book of Jewish Sports Heroes, by Peter S. Horvitz.

Eliot alleges lifelong anti-Semitism and presents, among other bases for this charge, a deleted scene from the 1933 Silly Symphony Three Little Pigs in which the Big Bad Wolf dresses as a Jewish peddler.

His best known television roles were the hen-pecked husband Alf Larkin in The Larkins, first broadcast in 1958, and a Jewish furniture maker in A Little Big Business.

In 2001, Komar & Melamid began work on their last major project together, Symbols of the Big Bang, first exhibited at the Yeshiva University Museum, Center for Jewish History, New York.

" Big " Jack Zelig ( May 13, 1888 – October 5, 1912 ) was a Jewish American New York City gangster and one of the last leaders of the Monk Eastman Gang.

The Starker: Big Jack Zelig, the Becker-Rosenthal Case, and the Advent of the Jewish Gangster, Cumberland House Publishing, 2008

In the episodes " The Big, Big Present / Hanukkah Plunder Blunder ," it is revealed that they and Mr. Solomon are Jewish.

In the episodes " The Big, Big Present / Hanukkah Plunder Blunder ," it is revealed that he, Flo and Zo are Jewish.