The IWS Study Edition Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book - Founders Day 1995

This is the IWS Study Edition Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book from 1995. Here you can read the Foreword to learn more about this special book! By making the Big Book easier to study, understand, and afford, we hope to be of some help to our fellow alcoholics, but we don't want to change the text in any way. So here is an explanation of what we have done and the precautions we have taken. The more obscure references in the text are footnoted with explanations. These are shaded to differentiate them from the original text and are limited strictly to facts - no opinions. Next to the text is a numbering system to help make discussions on particular paragraphs or sections easier. A comprehensive index to the Big Book's first 164 pages is provided. We hope it will cover most anything you may want to look up. In the index are definitions for the less common words from the text. The first three definitions for each were taken directly from Webster's Dictionary. We feel it best for the reader to