Da Vinci Press Announces Winning First Prize in London (UK) Book Festival for New Book "Tweeting da Vinci"

New York, NY, January 12, 2016 --(PR.com)-- Tweeting da Vinci won first place in the London (UK) Book Festival. In its first year of publication, Tweeting da Vinci won numerous gold medals for content and design. Competing against thousands of books, Tweeting da Vinci took top honors in prestigious national and international competitions. Among the awards won were:

Gold Medal Wild Card Category, London Book Festival
Gold Medal Best Nature Book, Foreword Reviews
Gold Medal Wild Card Category, New York Book Festival
Gold Medal Best Book Cover, Eric Hoffer Awards
USA Book News Awards:
1st place: Best Science Book
1st place: Best Interior Design
Finalist: Best Non-Fiction
Silver Medal Best First Book, Independent Book Publishers Association
Finalist, 50 Books/50 Covers design awards
Finalist, Best Art Book, Eric Hoffer Awards

Tweeting da Vinci, authored by Ann C. Pizzorusso reveals how Italy's geology has affected its history, art, religion, medicine and culture. Her beautiful book is packed with facts, full-color photos, paintings, sketches and illustrations. She follows in the tradition of writers such as John McPhee and Steven Jay Gould who are able to present complex aspects of geology in a friendly, almost poetic style.

Pizzorusso's real genius, however, is in her ability to stitch together widely diverse topics--such as gemology, folk remedies, grottoes, painting, literature, physics and religion--using geology as a thread. Quoting everyone from Pliny the Elder to NASA physicist Friedemann Freund, Pizzorusso's work is solidly backed scholarship that reads as easily as a summer novel.

Wonderfully illustrated and crammed with information, this book is perfect for the traveler (armchair or actual) wishing to visit these exciting places, trivia buffs and scholars alike.

About the author: Ann C. Pizzorusso is a geologist and Italian Renaissance scholar. After many years of doing virtually everything in the world of geology--drilling for oil, hunting for gems, cleaning up pollution in soil and groundwater, she turned her geologic skills toward Leonardo da Vinci.

Published by: Da Vinci Press
Twitter: @tweetingdavinci
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Tweeting da Vinci ISBN: 978-1-940613-00-0 244 pages $45.00

Twittando da Vinci ISBN: 978-1-940613017 (Italian edition) 29 Euro

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