Secrets of the Lost Symbol: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind the Da Vinci Code Sequel - Rilegato

Burstein, Dan; De Keijzer, Arne

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ISBN 10: 0061964956 ISBN 13: 9780061964954

Casa editrice: William Morrow & Co, 2009

Riassunto

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.

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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.

Arne de Keijzer is co-creator of the Secrets series, which includes Secrets of the Code and Inside Angels & Demons. A former international business consultant, he has also written or contributed to books on subjects ranging from China's impact on the global economy to today's new technologies.

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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

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: William Morrow & Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0061964956
• ISBN 13: 9780061964954
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 410
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile