An important resource that highlights the rewards recovery offers. This bestseller comes from the "group conscience" of members of the A.A. fellowship and is recommended reading for patients in many substance abuse treatment centers as well as alcoholism counselor training courses.

Stepping Stones to Recovery

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Pittman, Bill

Addiction & Recovery

Glen Abbey Books

This collection of prayers and inspirational readings was compiled to assist members of all Twelve-Step fellowships with healing and spiritual progress and is designed to be used alone or in conjunction with the bestselling book, The Twelve Steps--A Way Out.

12 Step Prayers for a Way Out

Jerry, S.

Rpi Pub

Those interested in A.A. history will find this two-book volume to be a must-have edition. Practice These Principles is an edited version of the original work, What is the Oxford Group? (full text reprinted) which served as a basis for the text of Alcoholics Anonymous. What is the Oxford Group? was written in 1932 and served as one of the core books for early A.A.s.

Practice These Principles and What Is the Oxford Group?

Hazelden

The writings of the Reverend Sam Shoemaker, Episcopal minister, are examined in this volume in the light of their contribution to the principles of Twelve Step recovery. Courage to Change deals with the influence of Sam Shoemaker on the early years of Alcoholics Anonymous, the writing of the Twelve Steps, and the book Alcoholics Anonymous. Bill Wilson proclaimed at the 1955 International AA Convention, "The early AA got its ideas of self-examination, acknowledgment of character defects, restitution for harm done, and working with others straight from the Oxford Group and directly from Sam Shoemaker." The writings of the Reverend Sam Shoemaker, Episcopal minister, are examined in this volume in the light of their contribution to the principles of Twelve Step recovery.

Courage To Change: The Christian Roots of the Twelve-Step Movement

Hazelden Publishing

The never before told story of the forces that inspired the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous. 
The Roots of Alcoholics Anonymous is a fascinating history of treatment for alcoholism that traces society's shifting sentiments towards recovery. Author Bill Pittman uncovers a wealth of new and fascinating information about the people, movements and organizations behind Alcoholics Anonymous. 
Pittman has dug deeply into the early history of AA. He has used recent scholarship on the subject well and done a mountain of new research. The entire Alcohol Studies field should find this book highly interesting. Penny Booth Page, Rutgers Center for Alcohol Studies 
"A challenging and thought provoking book." Ernest Kurtz, Ph.D., author of Not God: A History of AA 
"I like Bill Pittman's factual approach to the years leading up to the birth of AA." Ruth Hock Crecellius, Bill Wilson's first secretary 
"An honest, accurate and readable history of AA." Bob Morris, Minneapolis, Minnesota 
"Complete and informative--a valuable book for anyone in the alcohol studies field." Curtis M., New York City 
"Pittman has written a comprehensive and insightful history of the evolution of AA." Peter L., Waltham, Massachusetts

The Roots of Alcoholics Anonymous