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.

In June 2008, on DJ Cisco's Urban Legend mixtape, Ice-T criticized DeAndre Cortez " Soulja Boy Tell ' Em " Way for " killing hip hop " and his song " Crank That " for being " garbage " compared to the works of other hip-hop artists such as Rakim, Das EFX, Big Daddy Kane and Ice Cube.

Director of The Baby Maker ( 1970 ), The Paper Chase ( 1973 ), The China Syndrome ( 1979 ), Urban Cowboy ( 1980 ), Perfect ( 1985 ), and Bright Lights, Big City ( 1988 )

A circular route called ' The Big Track ' is used by Cyclists and Pedestrians, it follows towpaths along most of the Nottingham Urban sections of River Trent and the entirety of Beeston Canal

JR West's Urban Network competes with a number of private commuter rail operators around Osaka, the " Big 4 " being Hankyu Railway / Hanshin Railway ( Hankyu bought Hanshin in 2005 ), Keihan Railway, Kintetsu, and Nankai Railway.

In November 2007 Willcox took on the role of sponsoring the Black Country Urban Park for the People's £ 50 million Big Lottery Fund.

In 2008, Rimes toured with Kenny Chesney where she opened every show on his 2008 Poets and Pirates Tour, along with other artists on select dates such as Brooks & Dunn, Keith Urban, Sammy Hagar, Gary Allan, Big & Rich, and Luke Bryan.

In 1988, he did impressions of Prince Charles which featured on the Urban label release " Don't Believe the Hype " by acid house artist Mista E. The impressions were also used as jingles in 1988-89 on the BBC Radio 1 FM Friday night dance music show Jeff Young's Big Beat.

In the same building — Big Step — there are domestic boutiques ( Urban Research, Anna Sui, Jelly Beans, Ships, Stussy, United Arrows ) and restaurants.

Creative residency and commissioning projects for artists include: Bill T. Jones, Anne Bogart and the SITI Company, Big Art Group, Ann Hamilton ( in collaboration with Meg Stuart and subsequently with Meredith Monk ), Improbable Theatre, Bebe Miller, The Builders Association, Akram Khan, Elizabeth Streb, Eiko and Koma, The Wooster Group, Savion Glover, Urban Bush Women, Anthony Davis, Richard Maxwell, da da kamera, Mark Morris, Young Jean Lee's Theater Company, and Kronos Quartet.

* Big Book of Urban Legends ( 1994 )

* Spy Notes on McInerney's " Bright Lights, Big City / Janowitz's " Slaves of New York "/ Ellis's " Less Than Zero " and All Those Other Hip Urban Novels of the 1980s ( 1989, ISBN 0-385-24745-1 ): A CliffsNotes-style look at the literature of the nineteen-eighties

** " The Choking Doberman " ( with Robert Boyd, Jan Harold Brunvald and Robert Loren Fleming, in The Big Book of Urban Legends, 1994 )

Her screen debut came in A Return to Salem's Lot ( 1987 ), followed by The Big Lebowski ( 1998 ), Urban Legend ( 1998 ), and American Pie ( 1999 ).

WNND formerly carried a hybrid of Adult Contemporary, Urban AC, and instrumental covers as " Smooth Jazz 103. 5 " under the WJZA calls with programming derived from Broadcast Architecture's Smooth Jazz Network ; while from 2009 to 2010, WODB had its own identity as " Big Hits B1043 ," with a classic hits format.

* Lineup: 5 Days Off, Admiral Freebee, Aldona, Anouk, Aptijt, Babyjohn, Ballroom Quartet, Bende Gek, BJ Scott, Boogie Wonderband, Boudewijn de Groot, Brainpower, Camden Does Police, Charlie 54, Creams & Spices, Daan, Dave Edmunds, De Mens, Disco Nouveau Band, Discobar Galaxie, Elysian, Foger-T, Gabriel Ríos, Hale-Bopp, Heather Nova, Indigo Ratz, JMX ft. Tikiman, Kasper van Kooten, Ketnet Band, Krewcial, Krezip, K's Choice, Lemon, Luc Van Acker, Lunascape, Magical Flying Thunderbirds, Mama's Day Off, Mama's Jasje, Mauro Pawlowski & The Grooms, Mo ' Jones, Moloko, Monsoon, Myslovitz, Old Bastards, Orquesta Vibes, Ozark Henry, Plane Vanilla, Postmen, Pyriet, Queensize Quagmire, Raffaele, Relax, Ronny Mosuse, Satellite City, Sananda Maitreya, Sergio & The Big Bang, Sioen, Soulbob, Spark, Speedball Jr .,'t Hof van Commerce, The Cardigans, The Crox, The Pretenders, de Snevo's, Triggerfinger, Tumblin ' Dice, Tydal, Ultrasonic + live guests, Urban Trad, Vankatoen, Vive La Fête, W817 Band, Yasmine en Zuco 103.

Also from 2002 – 2003, Salen was asked to design the Big Urban Game ( BUG ), a citywide multiplayer game which was to be played by the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul in Minnesota as part of the Twin Cities Design Celebration.

; Big Urban Game

She intended to become a lawyer, but took an acting class during her senior year and was later cast in small off-Broadway plays, such as The Killer Inside Me, Small Town Gals With Big Problems and Urban Planning.

*“ Old School / Fu-Char Skool ” in Big City Cool: Short Stories about Urban Youth, edited by M. Jerry Weiss and Helen S. Weiss, Persea Books, 2002.

* Live In The Den with Big Tigger – an Urban Radio based syndicated program.

* Frank Jez ( FM104's Block Party Mixshow / FM104's Big Urban Mix )

R. E. M., The Ramones, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Mr. Bungle, Sonic Youth, Godsmack, Soundgarden, Weezer, Tina Turner, Mudvayne, Blues Traveler, Butthole Surfers, Keith Urban, L7, Nonpoint, Devin the Dude, Iron & Wine, Dillinger Escape Plan, EOTO, Aesop Rock, The Books, Staind, AFI, Sleater-Kinney, KRS-One, The Black Lips, The Donnas, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bun B, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job !, Os Mutantes, Foals, Tomahawk, Big Boi, Dresden Dolls, Warpaint, Del the Funky Homosapien, Man Man, Uh Huh Her, The Raveonettes, Pansy Division, Fantômas, Yelle, Prince Paul, OK Go, The Walkmen, Andy Dick, The Misfits, UK Subs, Death, Lucero, Man or Astroman ?, Theophilus London, The Jesus Lizard, Daniel Johnston, Cracker, The Sword, MC Chris, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Peelander-Z, Toro y Moi, CocoRosie, Omar Rodriguez Lopez, The Oh Sees, Yann Tiersen, Anamanaguchi, The Drums, Delicious Milk, Oh, Nostalgia, and hundreds of other now nationally recognized rock, country, hip-hop, and blues artists have all had their turn on the stages of Fitzgerald's.

* Mark Urban ( 1992 ), Big Boys Rules: The SAS and the secret struggle against the IRA.