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

Daniel Burstein

Arne De Keijzer

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

Secrets of Mary Magdalene: The Untold Story of History's Most Misunderstood Woman

Blog!: How the Newest Media Revolution is Changing Politics, Business, and Culture

David Kline

Dan Burstein

Arne J. De Keijzer

Paul Berger

Secrets of Angels & Demons: The Unauthorized Guide To The Bestselling Novel

Dan Burstein

Arne de Keijzer

Readers will explore the world of Bernini, master artist of the Baroque era, and the secret meanings behind his symbolism…What really happened in the trial of Galileo…The impact of the Illuminati, the Freemasons, and other secret societies on European and American history…The real state if the art antimatter technology…The centuries-old debate between science and religion.

Building on the model they created for Secrets of the Code: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code, editors Dan Burstein and Arne de Keijzer now take readers on an extended tour of the thought-provoking ideas infusing Dab Brown’s thriller, Angels and Demons.

Millions of readers want to separate fact from fiction in these books. The "Secrets" series teases apart the real and the imagined within the historical labyrinth of conspiracies, cover-ups, messages encoded in famous artworks, secrets societies, and mystical knowledge.

Secrets of Angels & Demons: The Unauthorized Guide to the Bestselling Novel is must reading for anyone fascinated with Dan Brown’s historical mysteries—Angels Demons and The Da Vinci Code.

Here are world-class historians, theologians, philosophers, scientists, art historians, technologists, symbologists, occultists, linguists, and writers and thinkers of all types discussing and debating the issues triggered by Dan Brown’s murder mystery. Burstein and de Keijzer have drawn together this authoritative group of experts to penetrate and explore Angels & Demons, and to begin an exciting, engaging conversation for and with the millions who have read this book.

Secrets of Angels and Demons

Daniel Burstein

Arne J. De Keijzer

Inside Angels & Demons: The Story Behind the International Bestseller

Dan Burstein

Arne De Keijzer

Readers explore the world of Bernini, master artist of the Baroque era, and the secret meanings behind his symbolism...what really happened in the trial of Galileo...the impact of the Illuminati, the Freemasons, and other secret societies on European and American history...the real state of the art anti-matter technology...the centuries-old debate between science and religion.

Millions of readers want to separate fact from fiction. This book teases apart the real and the imagined within the historical labyrinth of conspiracies, cover-ups, messages encoded in famous artworks, secrets societies, and mystical knowledge. Inside Angels & Demons: The Unauthorized Guide to the International Bestseller is must reading for anyone fascinated with Dan Brown’s historical mysteries.

Secrets of 24: The Unauthorized Guide to the Political & Moral Issues Behind TV's Most Riveting Drama

Dan Burstein

Arne J. de Keijzer

Learn the secrets of its richly complex and irresistible world.

Every week some 15 million people watch the most riveting show in postmodern pop culture: the television series 24. That's why it has earned countless cover stories and in-depth commentaries in publications ranging from The New Yorker to USA Today, as well as attention from hundreds of bloggers. For political pundits as varied as New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd to Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, it's a Rorschach test of our views on terrorism.

Secrets of `24': The Unauthorized Guide to the Politics, Moral Philosophy, and Technology Behind the Most Riveting Show in TV History uses this blockbuster series as a jumping off point to pursue real issues of relevance to our times--from whether torture is ever justified to whether individual rights should be sacrificed in the fight against terrorism. These are "big think" issues, complemented by a survey and analysis of the technologies and methods that drive the suspenseful plots. The illuminating collection combines original interviews and commissioned essays from leading political figures, cultural commentators, celebrities, and experts on technology, security, and terrorism with carefully selected anthologized op-eds and essays. It follows the wildly successful model the authors established with Secrets of the Code and their Secrets books--which have more than four million copies in print worldwide and have been on more than a dozen international bestseller lists, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Publisher's Weekly, and USA Today.

Secrets of `24' is an exciting, engaging, and informative read for everyone fascinated with the series--and an essential companion for understanding the show's central concerns. It will be in stores just in time for the start of the show's seventh season in January 2008, and the widely anticipated movie.

Big Dragon: The Future of China: WHAT IT MEANS FOR BUSINESS, THE ECONOMY, AND THE GLOBAL ORDER

Daniel Burstein

Arne De Keijzer

After the dust settles on the current Asian crisis, China will still exist -- the other super-power in the world of the twenty-first century, the country that has been rightfully dubbed not just another player in Asia but the "biggest player in the history of man."

This thought-provoking book explores how China will evolve and what its emerging economic prowess and growing political clout will mean for business, economic, and political interests. In a book that counters alarmist views of China as the new cold war enemy, as well as the naive optimism of those still overly bullish on a China facing huge economic pressure and structural challenges, Big Dragon offers a hard-edged, realistic, and eminently readable assessment of a nation that stands on the fulcrum of the global future. It was the book most widely read by senior American and Chinese officials during President Clinton's historic 1998 summit meeting with President Jiang Zemin.

Daniel Burstein and Arne de Keijzer, who together have more than fifty years' experience traveling in China, doing business in China, and writing about China, offer a fresh, intelligent, and ultimately positive business and political strategy for the United States.

China Business Handbook

Arne J. De Keijzer

The China Guidebook

Fredric M. Kaplan

Julian M. Sobin

Arne J. De Keijzer