Secrets of The Lost Symbol: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code Sequel [Hardcover]

Daniel Burstein (Author), Arne de Keijzer (Author)

Book Description

Series: Secrets | Publication Date: December 22, 2009

Unlock the secrets of The Lost Symbol

There is only one Dan Brown—and there is only one Secrets team that has achieved worldwide bestselling success by providing curious readers with compelling and authoritative explorations into the thought-provoking ideas that lie behind Brown's bestselling novels. Once again, Dan Burstein and Arne de Keijzer have gathered a wide range of world-class historians, theologians, scientists, philosophers, symbologists, code breakers, art historians, experts on the occult, and writers and thinkers of all types who give readers the essential tools to understand The Lost Symbol.

Contributors include

Amir Aczel, mathematician, science historian, and author of Fermat's Last Theorem

Karen Armstrong, author of The Case for God and The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions

William Arntz, writer and director of the film What the Bleep Do We Know!?

Michael Barkun, former FBI consultant and author of A Culture of Conspiracy

Steven Bullock, author of Revolutionary Brotherhood

Richard Dawkins, scientist and author of The God Delusion and The Greatest Show on Earth

Elonka Dunin, cryptographer

Heather Ewing, architectural historian, former curator at the Smithsonian Institution, and author of The Lost World of James Smithson

Mitch Horowitz, author of Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation

Arturo de Hoyos, 33º Mason and leading scholar of Freemasonry

Marcelo Gleiser, professor of physics at Dartmouth and author of A Tear at the Edge of Creation: Searching for the Meaning of Life in an Imperfect Cosmos

George Johnson, science writer and author of Architects of Fear: Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia in American Politics

Irwin Kula, rabbi and author of Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life

Lynne McTaggart, Noetics expert and author of The Intention Experiment

Michael Parkes, artist and painter of The Three Graces

David Plotz, editor of Slate.com and author of Good Book

Ingrid Rowland, professor at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture

James Sanborn, artist of the legendary encrypted Kryptos sculpture at CIA headquarters

Marilyn Mandala Schlitz, president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences

Jeff Sharlet, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power

David A. Shugarts, author of Secrets of the Widow's Son

Mark Tabbert, director of collections at the George Washington Masonic National Memorial and author of American Freemasons

James Wasserman, author of The Secrets of Masonic Washington

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About the Author

Dan Burstein is the world's leading expert on the fiction of Dan Brown. Burstein is also the founder of Millennium Technology Ventures, a New York-based venture capital firm that invests in innovative new technology companies. He is an award-winning journalist and author of thirteen books on global economics, technology, and popular culture.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 432 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow; 1 edition (December 22, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0061964956
• ISBN-13: 978-0061964954
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,129,375 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Companion to The Lost Symbol, December 1, 2009

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L. Mcelhiney "Porgy Tirebiter" (Indianapolis, IN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Secrets of The Lost Symbol: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code Sequel (Kindle Edition)

Though there has been a siginificant gap since the publishing of Dan Brown's previous book, "The Da Vinci Code", and Burstein's "The Secrets of the Code", Daniel Burstein's "Secrets of The Lost Symbol" has arrived right on the heels of Brown's latest offering.

Once again, a comprehensive group of authors works as an ensemble cast to produce a nearly encyclopedic analysis of a Dan Brown work for our betterment. Each of the authors has penned an essay on their own particular area of expertise, as a leading expert in the field, with the possible exception of James Sanborn, as the sculptor of KRYPTOS, located inside the security of the CIA's Langley center, since he is not only the leading expert, but the "keeper of the 'keys'" as well.

At the other edge, author Elonka Dunin [Nola K(ay)e] does an exceptional job of defining KRYPTOS from the public's view, as she is probably the leading repository of KRYPTOS knowledge outside the mind of Mr. Sanborn!

This book is highly recommended to those who want to understand how "The Lost Symbol" relates to our real world.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars secrets of the lost symbol, December 26, 2009

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Sandra K. West - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Secrets of The Lost Symbol: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code Sequel (Hardcover)

itisn't often that you read a bestseller and then buy a book that explains the bestseller and that book is so much better than the original. but it happens over and over when you read any "secrets of the code..." books by dan burstein and arne de keijzer. get on the bandwagon and buy the book "secrets of the lost symbol". this book is better than dan brown's original book.

1.0 out of 5 stars Nothing special., December 16, 2011

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Mark Simonson - See all my reviews

This review is from: Secrets of The Lost Symbol: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code Sequel (Paperback)

If you get excited about over-glorified conspiracies and bad books by bad authors, this book is made for you.

The whole book adds nothing to the discussion and is not edited well. The section with Elunka is truly garbage. I never thought a Dunin could be so unsuccessful. She failed to live up to the name she boasts in the book.

Don't waste your time nor money on this trash.