CSNA References Addendum

CSNA STUDENT STUDY COURSE REFERENCES MODULES 1-10 PDF

In addition to the CSNA Course References above presented in the actual course text of Module One, the following books (which represent only a fraction of those read by the author), have been used to update the authors comprehension of life, philosophy, health, travel, disease pathology, genetics, disease prevention and life extension:

  • Adler, Alfred (1923) Understanding Human Nature
  • Allen, James (1903) As a Man Thinketh
  • Aristotle (349 BC) Ethics
  • Aristotle (1984) The Complete Works of Aristotle
  • Attia, Peter MD (2023) Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity
  • Augustine (397-400) Confessions of Augustine
  • Aurelius, Marcus (1997) Meditations
  • Bacon, Sir Francis (1597) The Essays of Sir Francis Bacon
  • Barrett, Lisa Feldman (2017) How Emotions Are Made
  • Barrett, William (1958) Irrational Man
  • Beauvoir, de Simone (1949) The Second Sex
  • Becker, Ernest (1962) The Birth and Death of Meaning
  • Becker, Ernest (2005) The Denial of Death
  • Blackmore, Susan (2005) Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction
  • Bland, Jeffrey Dr., Hyman, Mark Dr. (2014) The Disease Delusion
  • Bodanis, David (2001) E=mc2: A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation
  • Botton, Alain de (2002) The Art of Travel
  • Botton, Alain de (2022) The Good Enough Parent: How to raise contented, interesting, and resilient children
  • Branden, Nathaniel Dr. (1994) The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
  • Branden, Nathaniel (2001) Dr. The Psychology of Self-Esteem
  • Brooks, Michael (2011) The Secret Anarchy of Science: Free Radicals
  • Buettner, Dan (2008) The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who’ve Lived the Longest
  • Campbell, T. Colin (2005) The China Study
  • Camus, Albert (1942) The Myth of Sisyphus
  • Carey, Nessa (2011) The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance
  • Carroll, Sean (2019) Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
  • Carroll, Sean (2022) The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
  • Carson, Rachel (1962) Silent Spring
  • Charles River Editors (2013) Legendary Philosophers: The Life and Philosophy of Aristotle
  • Cartledge, Paul (2003) The Spartans
  • Clark, Christopher James (2014) Nutritional Grail: Ancestral Wisdom, Breakthrough Science, and the Dawning Nutritional Renaissance
  • Collins, Francis S. (2011) The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine
  • Compton, John (2006) Jean-Paul Sartre: The Giants of Philosophy
  • Coyne, Jerry A. (2015) Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
  • Coyne, Jerry A. (2009) Why Evolution is True
  • Dawkins, Richard (2019) Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide
  • Dawkins, Richard (2017) Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist
  • Dawkins, Richard (2011) The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True
  • Dawkins, Richard (1976) The Selfish Gene
  • Dawkins, Richard (1986) The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
  • Dawkins, Richard (2009) The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
  • Dawkins, Richard (2006) The God Delusion
  • Darwin, Charles (1859) On the Origin of Species
  • Davis, Wade (2009) The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
  • Davis, William MD (2011) Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health
  • Dehaene, Staislas (2014) Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
  • Dennett, Daniel C. (1991) Consciousness Explained
  • Dennett, Daniel C. (2003) Freedom Evolves
  • Deutsch, David (1997) The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications
  • Diamond, Jared (1997) Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
  • Daimond, Jared (2005) Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail or Succeed
  • Dostoevsky, Fyodor (1864) Notes From the Underground
  • Douglas, Frederick (1845) Narrative of the Life of Frederic Douglas, an American Slave
  • Eisler, Riane (1987) The Chalice and the Blade
  • Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1841) Self Reliance
  • Emmerich, Maria (2013) Keto-Adapted
  • Fears, J. Rufus The Great Courses (1999) A History of Freedom
  • Ferguson, Niall (2008) The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
  • Forstater, Mark (2004) The Living Wisdom of Socrates
  • Frankl, Viktor E. (1946) Man’s Search for Ultimate Meaning
  • Frankl, Viktor E. (1946) Man’s Search for Meaning
  • Friedman, Milton (1962) Capitalism and Freedom
  • Freud, Sigmund (1899) The Interpretation of Dreams
  • Fromm, Erich (1973) The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
  • Fromm, Erich (2006) The Art of Being
  • Gardner, Daniel (2009) The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things We Should Not – and Put Ourselves in Great Danger
  • Garfield, Jay L. The Great Courses (2010) The Meaning of Life: Perspectives from the World’s Great Intellectual Traditions
  • Gifford-Jones, Diana (2019) No Nonsense Health Naturally
  • Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1829) Faust 1 & 2
  • Goggins, David (2018) Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
  • Gould, Stephen Jay (1980) The Mismeasure of Man
  • Greene, Brian (2020) Until the End of Time
  • Greene, Robert (2019) The Laws of Human Nature
  • Grossman, Jeffery C. The Great Courses (2014) Thermodynamics: Four Laws That Move the Universe
  • Harari, Yuval N. Prof. (2011) Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
  • Harari, Yuval N. Prof. (2015) Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
  • Harari, Yuval N. Prof. (2018) 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
  • Hara, Vani (2019) Feeding You Lies: How to Unravel the Food Industry's Playbook and Reclaim Your Health
  • Harris, Sam (2014) Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
  • Harris, Sam (2011) Lying
  • Harris, Sam (2012) Free Will
  • Harris, Sam (2010) The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
  • Hawking, Stephen (1993) Black Holes & Baby Universes and Other Essays
  • Hawking, Stephen W. (2002) The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe
  • Hawking, Stephen (2010) The Grand Design
  • Hazen, Robert M. The Great Courses (2008) The Joy of Science
  • Hegel, Friedrich (1807) The Phenomenology of Spirit
  • Heidegger, Martin (1927) Being and Time
  • Hitchens, Christopher (2012) Mortality
  • Hitchens, Christopher (2008) Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man: A Biography: Books That Changed the World
  • Hobbes, Thomas (1651) Leviathan: or The Matter, Form and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil
  • Hronec, Christine (2022) Unlock Your Macro Type: Identify Your True Body Type
  • Humphrey, Nicholas (2022) Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness
  • Husserl, Edmund (1913) Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology
  • Hyman, Mark MD (2016) Eat Fat, Get Thin: Why the Fat We Eat Is the Key to Sustained Weight Loss and Vibrant Health
  • Hyman, Mark MD (2020) Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet--One Bite at a Time
  • Jackson, Tom (2014) Philosophy An Illustrated History of Thought
  • Jaquish, John Dr. (2020) Weight Lifting is a Waste of Time
  • James, William (1902) The Varieties of Religious Experience
  • Joy, Melanie PhD (2020) Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows
  • Joseph, Peter (2017) The New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression
  • Jung, Carl Gustav (1933) Modern Man in Search of a Soul
  • Kant, Immanuel (1781) Critique of Pure Reason
  • Keith, Lierre (2009) The Vegetarian Myth
  • Kierkegaard, Soren (2018) Fear and Trembling
  • Kolbert, Elizabeth (2014) The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
  • Krauss, Lawrence M. (2017) The Greatest Story Ever Told – So Far: Why Are We Here?
  • Kraus, Lawrence M. (2012) A Universe from Nothing: Why There is Something Rather Than Nothing
  • Kraus, Lawrence M. (1995) The Physics of Star Trek
  • Krishnamurti, Jiddu (1969) Freedom from the Known
  • Larson, J. D. PhD The Great Courses (2002) The Theory of Evolution: A History of Controversy
  • Lee, Bruce (2000) Striking Thoughts
  • Leipzig, Rosanne M. (2023) Honest Aging
  • Levine, Amir (2010) Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find – and Keep - Love
  • Lipton, Bruce H. PhD (2013) The Honeymoon Effect: The Science of Creating Heaven on Earth
  • Lipton, Bruce H. PhD (2005) The Biology of Belief
  • Lipton, Bruce H. PhD (2006) The Wisdom of Your Cells: How Your Beliefs Control Your Biology
  • Lustig, Robert H. MD (2017) The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains
  • Lustig, Robert H. MD (2021) Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine
  • Lyon, Dr. Gabrielle (2023) Forever Strong: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well
  • Machiavelli, Niccolo (1532) The Prince
  • Mandela, Nelson (1994) Long Walk to Freedom
  • Manson, Mark (2016) The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck
  • Maslow, Abraham (1971) The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
  • Mate, Gabor (2008) In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
  • Mate, Gabor (2022) The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture
  • McDougall, Christopher (2009) Born to Run: The Hidden Tribe, the Ultra-Runners and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
  • McGuff, Doug MD, Murphy, Robert PhD (2015) Primal Prescription: Surviving the ‘Sick Care’ Sinkhole
  • Means, Casey (2024) Good Energy
  • Mele, Alfred R. (2014) Free: Why Science Hasn’t Disproved Free Will
  • Mill, John Stuart (1859) On Liberty
  • Mukherjee, Siddhartha (2016) The Gene: An Intimate History
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich (1872) The Birth of Tragedy
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich (1873) On Truth and Untruth
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich (1882) The Gay Science
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich (1882) The Joyful Wisdom
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich (1886) Beyond Good and Evil
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich (1885) Thus Spoke Zarathustra
  • Nimoy, Leonard (1995) I am Spock
  • Nestor, James (2020) Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
  • Nye, Bill (2014) Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation
  • Ormsbee, Michael PhD (2016) Changing Body Composition through Diet and Exercise
  • Orloff, Judith MD (2009) Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself From Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life
  • Paine, Thomas (1791) The Rights of Man and Common Sense
  • Perlmutter, David MD (2015) The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain for Life
  • Pert, Candance B. PhD (1999) Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Feel
  • Peterson, Jordan (2018) 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
  • Peterson, Jordan (2021) Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
  • Pinker, Steven (2018) Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress
  • Plato (1997) Complete Works
  • Pollan, Michael (2006) The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
  • Ponesse, Dr. Julie (2021) My Choice
  • Pontzer, Herman PhD (2021) Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy
  • Rand, Ayn, Schwartz, P. (1999) Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
  • Rand, Ayn (1966) Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
  • Rand, Ayn (1936) We the Living
  • Rand, Ayn (1938) Anthem
  • Rand, Ayn (1982) Philosophy: Who Needs It?
  • Rand, Ayn (1957) Atlas Shrugged
  • Rand, Ayn (1943) The Fountainhead
  • Rand, Ayn (1964) The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
  • Rank, Otto (1909) The Myth of the Birth of the Hero
  • Rank, Otto (1929) The Trauma of Birth
  • Ridley, Matt (1999) Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
  • Rosenberg, Alex (2011) The Atheist’s Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life Without Illusions
  • Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1762) The Social Contract
  • Russell, Bertrand (1959) Wisdom of Bertrand Russell
  • Russell, Bertrand (1935) Religion and Science
  • Ryan, Christopher, Cacilda, Jetha (2012) Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray and What It Means for Modern Relationships
  • Ryan, Christopher (2019) Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress
  • Sadava, David The Great Courses (2013) Understanding Genetics: DNA, Genes and Their Real-World Applications
  • Salamo, Lin (1991) Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race
  • Sartre, Jean-Paul (1943) Being and Nothingness
  • Schopenhauer, Arthur (1819) The World as Will and Idea
  • Sears, JP (2017) How to Be Ultra Spiritual: 12 ½ Steps to Spiritual Superiority
  • Seligman, Martin E. P. PhD (2002) Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment
  • Seneca (2018) How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life
  • Schwarzenegger, Arnold (2012) Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
  • Schwarzenegger, Arnold (2023) Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
  • Sharma, Robin (2008) Extraordinary Leadership
  • Shermer, Michael (2016) Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye
  • Schopenhauer, Arthur (1818) The World as Will and Idea, Volume 1
  • Sission, Mark (2013) The Primal Connection: Follow Your Genetic Blueprint to Health and Happiness
  • Smith, Adam (1776) The Wealth of Nations
  • Smith, James (2020) Not A Life Coach
  • Solomon, Robert C., The Great Courses, No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life
  • Solomon, S; Greenberg, J (2015) The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life
  • Spinoza, Benedict de (1677) Ethics
  • Stipp, David (2010) The Youth Pill: Scientists at the Brink of an Anti-Aging Revolution
  • Suzuki, Shunryu (1970) Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
  • Swan, Teal (2016) The Completion Process : The Practice of Putting Yourself Back Together Again
  • Taubes, Gary (2016) The Case Against Sugar
  • Taubes, Gary (2010) Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It
  • Taubes, Gary (2020) The Case For Keto
  • Taubes, Gary (2024) Rethinking Diabetes: What Science Reveals About Diet, Insulin and Successful Treatments
  • Taubes, Gary (2007) Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health
  • Teicholz, Nina (2014) The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet
  • Thoreau, Henry David (1849) Thoreau: Walden / Civil Disobedience
  • Tulleken, Chris van (2023) Ultra-Processed People: Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food
  • Turok, Neil (2012) The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos
  • Ventura, Jessa, Hobbs, Jen (2016) Jesse Ventura’s Marijuana Manifesto
  • Viskontas, Indre (2013) 12 Essential Scientific Concepts
  • Washington, Booker T. (1901) Up From Slavery
  • Watson, James, Berry, Andrew (2003) DNA: The Secret of Life
  • Weintraub, Arlene (2010) Selling the Fountain of Youth: How the Anti-Aging Industry Made a Disease Out of Getting Old – and Made Billions
  • Whitehead, Alfred North (1929) The Function of Reason
  • Will, Durant (2010) The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers
  • Wolke, Robert L. (2002) What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained