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Books That Make You Say, “Wow!”
Illustrated books that uncover the fascinating stories behind familiar people, places, inventions, objects, ideas, and more.
For Editors, Reviewers, and Industry Partners
NuSpark Publishing is inviting selected editors, reviewers, educators, influencers, and industry professionals to experience our Learn…Wow! membership model with complimentary 31-day access.
Explore the books, Young Reader Editions, and interactive AI learning experiences, then share your feedback on the concept, content, and overall member experience.
We also welcome the opportunity to connect directly, discuss what you are seeing, answer questions, and explore ways we may be able to work together.
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Our Learn…Wow! series explores the surprising history, science, technology, culture, and stories behind familiar subjects. Created for curious adults, lifelong learners, and families who enjoy learning together, each book explains how everyday things came to be, how they work, and why they matter—without reading like a textbook.
And with a Learn…Wow! membership, the learning keeps going with new eBooks added every month. Hardcover editions are also available through Amazon for readers who prefer a physical book.
Access NuSpark Publishing for 31 Days and get immediate access to all existing Learn…Wow! eBooks at no additional cost! Download them directly or send them to your favorite eReader, then enjoy two new eBooks added every month.
For Curious Adults
Rediscover the pleasure of learning through engaging, approachable books that make interesting subjects easier to understand and enjoy.
- Explore the history, science, technology, and stories behind familiar things.
- Discover surprising facts and connections you probably never learned before.
- Enjoy highly visual books designed for relaxed, comfortable reading.
- Build your own growing library of subjects that simply make you say, “Wow.”
For Parents
Turn curiosity into something you can share. Learn…Wow! gives parents and younger readers a reason to explore, talk, and learn together.
- Share interesting topics that naturally lead to questions and conversation.
- Use Young Reader Editions to make the same subjects accessible to younger readers.
- Encourage curiosity beyond school assignments and traditional textbooks.
- Create simple learning experiences that parents and children can enjoy together.
Recent Books/eBooks
The Story of the Radio
Radio may seem as simple as turning a dial, but behind every broadcast is a system that turns sound into electrical signals, carries information through the air, and makes it audible again. This illustrated Learn…Wow! book explains that technology in approachable...
The Story of the Road
Discover how roads grew from ancient paths and stone routes into the engineered systems that connect cities, neighborhoods, businesses, and entire countries. The Story of the Road follows the history, planning, materials, construction, maintenance, safety, and...
The Story of the Sneaker
Discover how the sneaker grew from simple rubber-soled athletic footwear into one of the most recognizable products in sports, fashion, and culture. The Story of the Sneaker follows the history, science, design, manufacturing, performance, business, and style behind...
About Learn…Wow!
The Learn…Wow! series explores the surprising history, science, culture, and stories behind familiar subjects. Each book is designed to be informative without feeling like a textbook, making it suitable for adults, families, educators, and younger readers who enjoy discovering something unexpected.
“As a recording engineer, I appreciate how NuSpark Publishing takes technical and scientific subjects and makes them clear, visual, and genuinely interesting for everyday readers.”
“I’ve never seen books quite organized this way. These are subjects I recognize, but they’re showing me the whole story behind them. I like learning this kind of stuff.”
Why You Will Enjoy These Books
Surprising Stories
Every page turns up something you didn’t expect — the odd origin, the buried detail, the fact that makes you stop and reread it. The kind of thing you’ll repeat at dinner that night.
Visual Learning
Photographs and illustrations carry as much of the story as the words do. Complex ideas land in a single image instead of three paragraphs.
Clear Explanations
No jargon, no assumed background. Each topic is explained the way a good friend would explain it — plainly, and without leaving out the interesting part.
Curiosity for All Ages
Written to be read at any age and shared across them. Leave it on the coffee table or in the bookshelf, and watch who picks it up.
A More Complete Way to Learn
Each Learn…Wow! ebook or hardcover book is designed to give you a broad understanding of a subject before inviting you to explore the parts that interest you most.
Origins & History
Discover where the story began and what sparked its development. Meet the people, ideas, discoveries, and events that helped shape it.
See how early breakthroughs influenced what came next.
Technology & How It Works
Understand the science, engineering, mechanics, or processes behind the subject. Complex ideas are explained in clear, approachable language.
Learn not just what something does, but why and how it works.
Development & Trends
Follow how the subject changed, improved, and expanded over time. Explore important innovations, products, uses, and turning points along the way.
See how current developments are shaping what comes next.
Culture & Everyday Life
See how the subject became part of everyday life and popular culture. Explore its connections to entertainment, media, traditions, hobbies, language, and shared experiences.
Discover why its influence often reaches far beyond its original purpose.
Go Beyond the Books With Learn…Wow! Membership
A Learn…Wow! Membership gives curious readers more ways to explore every subject.
Members get a growing digital library, two new full-length eBooks each month, Young Reader Editions, Learn…HOW! mini-books, hardcover savings, interactive learning experiences, book-building tools, and access to a community of people who enjoy learning and sharing ideas.
Your Digital Book Library
Read Learn…Wow! books on the devices you already use. EPUB editions work with compatible eReaders and reading apps, while PDFs preserve the designed page layouts and are ideal for tablets, laptops, and larger screens. Formats vary by title, and members receive simple instructions for adding books to Kindle, Apple Books, Google Play Books, NOOK, and other compatible readers.
Young Reader Editions
Each month, members receive two Young Reader Editions of current Learn…Wow! topics, written in a shorter, simpler format for children and families to learn together.
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Learn…HOW! Mini-Books
Members also receive a special approximately 25-30-page science or technology Learn…HOW! mini-book each month, providing another way to explore how things work in greater detail.
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A New Way to Revisit the Decades You Remember
Members also receive access to the new Remember…Wow! series, which revisits the pop culture, entertainment, technology, trends, and everyday memories of decades across more than 120 years. The 1990s edition is the first release, with additional decades planned on an ongoing basis.
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Personalized Young Reader Editions
Members can also turn selected Learn…Wow! Young Reader Editions into something truly personal. For $40 per book, submit a few family photos and we can create a custom digital edition featuring your child—or children—within selected book images.
Parent or guardian consent is required. Submitted photos are used only to create the requested personalized edition and are handled according to our Privacy Policy.
Discounted Hardcover Savings
Members can order available Learn…Wow! hardcover editions for just $20 each—typically saving $15 or more compared with the regular Amazon price.
Learn With Mister Paul
Continue learning with a growing collection of over 260 AI-powered interactive experiences. Ask questions, request simpler explanations, and explore science, technology, engineering, history, everyday life, how things work, and much more at your own pace. Each experience is created and directed by Paul Mosenson using ChatGPT.
ChatGPT Book Companion
Turn every Learn…Wow! book into a more interactive experience. Upload the book PDF, ask questions, go deeper into chapters or topics, request Adult or Young Reader explanations, and create teaching images or diagrams when a visual would help explain an idea. This is a ChatGPT tool we built.
Science, Tech & Engineering Explainer
Part of our AI Education Solutions, this guided AI tool is designed for curious adults who want to understand science, technology, and engineering in greater detail, with clear explanations, deeper topic exploration, formulas, examples, and visuals that extend the learning beyond our books. This is a ChatGPT tool we built.
Parents: Create Your Own Learn Wow Mini-Book
Parents can use the Learn…Wow! Parent Book Builder to create a personalized nonfiction mini-book with their child. Choose a topic or explore ideas together, select the reading style, and build the book section by section across history, how it works, current developments, and culture or everyday life. This is a ChatGPT tool we built.
Curious Adults: Create Your Own Learn-How Mini-Book
The Learn How Mini Book Builder lets members choose a technology, machine, scientific phenomenon, engineered system, process, or everyday object and create a focused nonfiction mini-book explaining how and why it works. This is a ChatGPT tool we built.
Supporting Children’s Education
A portion of Learn…Wow! monthly or annual membership revenue is donated to support children’s education and learning. Donations rotate among selected national education nonprofits each month so each organization receives support throughout the year.
Share Learn…Wow! and Earn Rewards
Members can earn referral rewards by sharing Learn…Wow! with friends, family, coworkers, educators, and others who enjoy learning. Earn $20 for each qualifying new monthly member or $50 for each qualifying new annual member who joins through your personal sharing link.
Member Community
Connect with other curious readers, share reactions to new books, suggest future topics, and discuss the ideas that surprised you most. Member feedback may also help shape future Learn…Wow! editions and new topics.
New Things to Discover
The Learn…Wow! library will continue to grow with new books, Young Reader Editions, Learn…HOW! mini-books, interactive learning experiences, book-building tools, and other special member content.
Each month includes two new full-length illustrated Learn…Wow! eBooks—an average of about $17.50 per new book at the monthly membership rate—plus Young Reader Editions, a Learn…HOW! mini-book, interactive learning tools, book-building experiences, hardcover savings, and access to the growing member library.
Get all these benefits for just $34.99 per month, with no long-term commitment. Cancel anytime.
Or save $120 with an annual membership for $299.88 per year — just $24.99 per month when paid annually.
Explore Learn…Wow! Membership
Note: Any eBooks you download while your membership is active are yours to keep. Member-only access and benefits continue through the end of your paid membership term.
We Donate to Education Nonprofits. You Can, Too.
Reading Is Fundamental
Reading Is Fundamental helps children build strong literacy skills and a lifelong love of reading by increasing access to books, reading resources, and engaging literacy experiences.
First Book
First Book helps remove barriers to education by providing books, learning resources, and support to educators serving children in low-income communities.
Communities In Schools
Communities In Schools connects students with caring adults, school-based support, and community resources so they can overcome barriers, stay engaged, and succeed in school.
Boys & Girls Clubs of America
Boys & Girls Clubs of America provides safe places, caring mentors, and programs that support academic success, leadership, health, and personal development for millions of children and teens nationwide.
A portion of Learn…Wow! monthly membership revenue is donated to support children’s education and learning. Donations rotate among the featured nonprofit organizations each month so each receives support throughout the year.
The eBook Advantage
A Library That Travels With You
Carry multiple Learn…Wow! ebooks without packing multiple books.
Keep them on your phone, tablet, laptop, or e-reader for trips, visits, vacations, or quiet time away from home. Your whole collection can travel with you.
Read Your Way
Choose the device and reading app that works best for you rather than being tied to one format or one place.
Learn…Wow! ebooks can be enjoyed across compatible phones, tablets, computers, and e-readers. Switch devices as your situation changes.
Easy to Enjoy Together
An ebook makes it simple to sit with a child or younger family member and explore a subject together on a shared screen.
Look at the visuals, talk through surprising facts, and jump between chapters based on what interests them most. It can turn reading into a shared learning experience.
Easy to Revisit
Return to a favorite chapter, image, explanation, or surprising fact whenever curiosity strikes.
Digital books make it easy to move around, search, and revisit specific parts of a subject. Use the book as both a complete read and a reference you can come back to.
Prefer a physical book? Hardcover editions are also available for readers who enjoy the feel, permanence, and display value of a printed book.
Coming Soon to Learn…Wow!
Here are a few of the topics we’re currently exploring for future Learn…Wow! books. Topics and release timing are subject to change as our publishing schedule develops.
- The Story of the Road — How roads are planned, engineered, paved, maintained, and transformed by technology.
- The Story of the Drum — Thousands of years of rhythm, culture, materials, acoustics, and modern electronic percussion.
- The Story of the Toothbrush — From early chewing sticks to nylon bristles, electric brushes, and the science of keeping teeth clean.
- The Story of the Bicycle — How a simple two-wheel machine evolved through engineering, sport, transportation, and culture.
- The Story of the Potato Chip — Origins, manufacturing, flavor science, packaging, advertising, and why that crunch is so satisfying.
AI-Assisted. Human-Directed.
NuSpark Publishing uses modern AI tools as part of the creative and research process, including support for research, writing development, editing, visual concepts, and selected illustrations.
But AI does not make the final decisions.
Every Learn…Wow! book is personally directed, shaped, reviewed, and edited by publisher Paul Mosenson. Topics are selected with purpose, chapters are structured for clarity and curiosity, information is reviewed for accuracy, and every page is evaluated before publication.
AI helps us explore more ideas and create richer learning experiences. Human judgment determines what belongs in the book.
The goal is simple: use the best tools available while keeping curiosity, editorial judgment, quality, and the reader at the center of every title.
A New Publishing Imprint With Plenty Ahead
NuSpark Publishing is just getting started. New illustrated books are now in development, covering fascinating stories from history, science, technology, culture, inventions, and the everyday objects we often take for granted.
Each title will be designed to make complex subjects easier to understand, more enjoyable to explore, and full of those unexpected moments that make you say, “Wow… who knew? that’s interesting!”
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Learn…Wow!?
Learn…Wow! is a series of educational curiosity ebooks designed to make interesting topics easier and more enjoyable to understand. Each title takes a familiar subject and explains its history, science, technology, cultural impact, and surprising details in a clear, structured format.
The goal is simple: help readers learn something new and say, “Wow, I didn’t know that.”
Are Learn…Wow! ebooks written with AI?
Yes. Learn…Wow! uses AI-assisted tools as part of the research, writing, editing, image creation, and production process.
AI helps us work faster and explore topics more efficiently, but the ebooks are not simply generated and published automatically. Topics, structure, content decisions, visuals, revisions, fact review, editing, and final approval are human-directed.
What am I really buying when I buy a Learn…Wow! ebook?
You are buying a finished educational experience, not a traditional author process.
Each ebook is built around the Learn…Wow! format: selecting an interesting topic, identifying what is worth knowing, organizing the material into a logical story, explaining ideas clearly, choosing useful visuals, checking the information, and presenting everything in an engaging format.
The value is in the research, curation, structure, explanation, visual storytelling, and finished product.
How can you produce two ebooks and two Younger Reader Editions each month?
Modern AI-assisted publishing tools allow research, drafting, editing, visual development, and production tasks to happen much faster than they could using traditional methods alone.
That efficiency allows us to publish more frequently while still reviewing, editing, organizing, and approving each ebook before release. Younger Reader Editions are adapted from the same core research into shorter, simpler ebooks created specifically for younger audiences.
Speed is a benefit of the process, but publishing quickly is not the goal. Creating interesting, useful educational content is.
How do you make sure the information is accurate?
Research and factual review are part of the production process for every ebook. Information is checked, compared, revised, and reviewed before publication.
No publication or research source is perfect, and errors can occur. When we identify something that needs correction or clarification, digital editions can be updated.
Are the images AI-generated?
Many Learn…Wow! visuals are created with AI-assisted image tools. Other visuals may include diagrams, reference-based graphics, or traditionally sourced material when appropriate.
Images are selected and directed to help explain the topic, add context, and make the ebooks more engaging. AI-generated imagery is disclosed in the ebooks.
Why not just ask ChatGPT or another AI about these topics?
You certainly can, and AI is an excellent way to explore individual questions.
A Learn…Wow! ebook does something different. Instead of requiring the reader to know what to ask, the ebook has already selected the questions, organized the answers, identified the most interesting information, created a logical learning sequence, and combined the material with visuals and explanations.
It is the difference between searching for individual facts and having a complete topic organized for you.
What are the Younger Reader Editions?
Younger Reader Editions take selected Learn…Wow! topics and adapt them into shorter, easier-to-read ebooks for younger audiences.
They use simpler explanations, shorter sections, engaging visuals, and age-appropriate examples while keeping the curiosity and educational purpose of the main series.
Who is Learn…Wow! for?
Learn…Wow! is for curious people who enjoy understanding how familiar things came to be, how they work, and why they matter.
You do not need to be an expert, student, or serious researcher. The ebooks are designed for readers who simply enjoy learning something interesting.
Who is Founder Paul Mosenson?
Paul Mosenson is the founder of NuSpark Publishing and the creator of the Learn…Wow! series.
He has spent his career helping organizations communicate ideas clearly, organize information, and turn complex subjects into understandable, useful content. Learn…Wow! grew from his own lifelong curiosity and belief that learning should remain engaging at every age.
Paul directs the topics, structure, research approach, editorial decisions, visual direction, and final review of each Learn…Wow! ebook. AI-assisted tools help with parts of the production process, but the overall concept, judgment, organization, and publishing decisions remain human-directed.
His goal is straightforward: to create educational curiosity ebooks that help people discover something interesting, understand it clearly, and keep wanting to learn.
Stay Curious
There is always another story behind the things we see, use, and remember.
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