A guide to the history, science and hidden meanings behind Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol reveals the story's link to international conspiracies and hidden-in-plain-sight codes and encryptions contained in famous artworks, documents and international landmarks. 150,000 first printing.
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
