Welcome to NuSpark Publishing
Ongoing “How and Why” Books & eBooks for Curious Adults and Families
Books That Make You Say, “Wow!”
Discover Fascinating Illustrated Nonfiction eBooks About Science, Technology, History, Nostalgia, and Everyday Life.
Wow…Who Knew?
There’s a surprising story behind almost everything we see, use, remember, and experience. From remarkable inventions and scientific discoveries to cultural trends and the everyday things we take for granted, there’s always something new to learn.
Welcome to NuSpark Publishing, your online destination for richly illustrated nonfiction eBooks that make learning entertaining, understandable, and enjoyable.
Explore what interests you. Discover what surprises you. Learn something that makes you say, “Wow, I didn’t know that!”
What Makes NuSpark Publishing Unique?
Rediscover memories, explore fascinating subjects, share discoveries with your children, and satisfy your curiosity in ways that go beyond traditional reading.
One Publisher. A Personal Passion for Learning.
NuSpark Publishing was founded by Paul Mosenson, whose lifelong curiosity and passion for education guide every book and learning experience. Each title is developed with a focus on interesting stories, substantive explanations, realistic illustrations, and those surprising moments that make readers say, “Wow, I didn’t know that!”
Different Ways to Explore the Same Subject
Our educational approach doesn’t have to end with one book. Explore a subject through a full-length illustrated eBook, a simpler Young Reader Edition for children and families, or a focused Learn…How mini-book explaining the science, technology, and engineering behind it. Each format offers a different perspective and level of understanding.
Interactive Learning and Personalized Experiences
Go beyond reading with Learn With Mister Paul, a collection of over 300 specialized AI-powered learning experiences developed by Founder Paul Mosenson. Designed for adults, families, educators, and curious minds of all ages, these tools cover science, technology, history, engineering, nature, culture, everyday knowledge, and much more.
Each tool includes detailed instructions that you can download and use with popular AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Copilot. Instead of starting with a blank chat, you’ll have a structured learning experience that guides you through questions, explanations, discoveries, and activities tailored to your interests and understanding.
Families can also create personalized Young Reader books featuring their children, while our separate Learn…Wow! My Story service helps turn personal memories and experiences into professionally designed keepsake books.
Discover books that interest you. Explore learning experiences that go further. Make every new discovery your own.
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.”
- Use AI-powered learning tools to ask follow-up questions, explore topics more deeply, and keep learning beyond the book.
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.
- Use AI-powered tools to explain ideas in simpler ways, answer kids’ questions, and create personalized learning experiences together.
Prefer Hardcovers? We’ve Got You Covered! Our Books Are Also Available in Hardcover Editions on Amazon. Find the Purchase Links on Each Book’s Page in Our Book Library.
Become a Learn…Wow! Member (click here)
Keep learning, exploring, and discovering all year long.
Your Learn…Wow! Annual Membership includes access to over 300 guided AI learning experiences, Young Reader Editions for children and families, and specialty Learn…How eBooks covering science, technology, engineering, and how things work.
Plus, choose one full-length Learn…Wow! or Remember…Wow! eBook of your choice every calendar month at no additional cost! Browse the member library, select a title, and submit a simple email request to receive your digital editions.
Enjoy all these benefits for just $149.94 per year — less than $12.50 per month when paid annually!
One annual membership. A year of discovery. Learn at your own pace.
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Discover fascinating books, explore new subjects, and enjoy learning your way. Purchase individual eBooks or become a Learn…Wow! Annual Member!
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Choose from our illustrated Learn…Wow! and Remember…Wow! eBooks covering science, technology, history, nostalgia, culture, and fascinating everyday subjects.
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How Our Books Are Created
Founder Paul Mosenson brings his experience with AI through his work at NuSpark Marketing, where he has developed and used a wide range of AI tools for research, analysis, content development, and business strategy.
NuSpark Publishing uses multiple AI tools to accelerate research, drafting, and development, allowing new books to be produced more efficiently than through a traditional publishing process. Paul then takes that research, shapes the structure, refines the explanations, and develops each book in his own style: readable, focused, compelling, and informative without becoming overly technical.
The goal is simple: readers should finish a book thinking, “Wow, I learned something.”
Recent Learn…Wow! Books
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.
Explore the kinds of AI learning experiences Learn…Wow! offers. Choose a subject or ask Mr. Paul a question, and he’ll suggest tools that can help you explore it further.
Learn…Wow! · Mr. Paul's AI Tools
What do you want to learn about?
Ask anything, from volcanoes to the history of rock and roll. Mr. Paul will show you which of his learning tools can help.
Start with a subject, or choose more than one for more results
Or ask Mr. Paul anything
Mr. Paul's suggestions are a quick guide, and they won't always be a perfect match. If something looks off, try asking a different way.
Or, use your computer, tablet, or phone mic, and have a curiosity or educational conversation with AI Mr. Paul, as she shares some answers as a preview to all the tools you get as a member
“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.
Learn…Wow! Annual Membership — $149.94/year:
Enjoy one complimentary full-length Learn…Wow! or Remember…Wow! eBook of your choice each calendar month, Young Reader Editions, specialty Learn…How! mini-books, and access to over 300 interactive AI-powered encyclopedia learning tools developed by Founder Paul Mosenson.
Your Free eBook Every Month — You Choose!
Each calendar month, annual members can select one full-length Learn…Wow! or Remember…Wow! digital book of their choice at no additional cost.
Simply browse the books on your member page, choose a title, and click the email request link beneath it. Choose the subjects that interest you most, enjoy reading at your own pace, and build your personal digital book collection throughout the year.
Young Reader Editions
Each month, members receive up to two Young Reader Editions of current Learn…Wow! topics, written in a shorter, simpler format for children and families to learn together. Free PDF or option to order hardcover.
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Learn…HOW! Mini-Books
Members also receive a special approximately 40-50 page science or technology Learn…HOW! mini-book each month, providing another way to explore how things work in greater detail. Free PDF or option to order hardcover.
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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.
Have a “Wow” Story From Your Life? Turn It Into a Book.
Everyone has a story worth remembering. Share one remarkable experience, accomplishment, adventure, or meaningful memory, and we’ll help transform it into your own professionally written and designed Learn…Wow! My Story book.
We’ll interview you, shape your story, incorporate your photos, and create the finished book. Download it as a PDF to keep and share, or we’ll help prepare and publish it on Amazon so family, friends, and future generations can have their own copy.
Your experience. Your story. Your book. LEARN MORE
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 and designed to work with leading AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot.
LEARN MORE AND DOWNLOAD A LIST OF OUR AI ENCYCLOPEDIAS.
Learn Wow 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 companion was created by NuSpark Publishing to help readers get more from every book using AI.
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. Created and directed by Paul Mosenson, it can be used with leading AI assistants for deeper, self-paced learning.
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. Created by NuSpark Publishing, this guided AI tool helps families turn curiosity into a personalized learning experience.
Challenge Yourself or Your Kids With a Learn…Wow! Quiz
Use the Learn…Wow! Quiz Generator to test what you learned from any book. Adults can challenge themselves, while kids can enjoy an easier version designed to reinforce understanding and curiosity. It’s a simple way to turn reading into an interactive learning experience and see how much you remember.
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. Created by NuSpark Publishing, this guided AI tool helps curious adults turn a question or topic into a structured, easy-to-follow learning experience.
Supporting Children’s Education
A portion of Learn…Wow! of an 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 and non-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 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.
Join Our New Facebook Group
We’re just getting started! Join the new NuSpark Publishing Facebook community for fun facts, interesting charts, nostalgia, new book topics and plenty of “Wow, I didn’t know that” moments. CLICK HERE
New Things to Discover
The Learn…Wow! member experience continues to grow. Benefits depend on your membership:
Learn…Wow! Annual Membership — $149.94 per year: Choose one complimentary full-length Learn…Wow! or Remember…Wow! eBook of your choice each calendar month, enjoy Young Reader Editions, specialty Learn…How! mini-books, and explore over 300 interactive AI-powered encyclopedia learning tools.
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.
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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 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.
A Growing Library With More Ahead
The Learn…Wow! library continues to grow, with illustrated books exploring fascinating stories from history, science, technology, culture, inventions, and the everyday objects and ideas we often take for granted.
Members receive two new full-length Learn…Wow! eBooks every month, along with Young Reader Editions, Learn…HOW! mini-books, and other learning experiences as the collection expands.
Each title is designed to make complex subjects easier to understand, more enjoyable to explore, and filled with the unexpected discoveries that make you say, “Wow…Who Knew?”
Be the First to Know
Get updates about new books, upcoming topics, reader resources, and additions to the Learn..Wow series.
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.
What eBook formats are available, and what devices can I use?
Learn…Wow! books are available in digital formats that may include EPUB and PDF, depending on the title. EPUB editions work with compatible eReaders and reading apps, while PDF editions preserve the designed page layouts and are best suited to tablets, laptops, and larger screens. Members also receive instructions for adding compatible books to Kindle, Apple Books, Google Play Books, NOOK, and other reading apps.
Do I need to pay for an AI service to use the AI encyclopedias and interactive tools?
Not necessarily. The tools are designed to work with leading AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot. Many of these services offer free access, although free plans may have usage limits, file-upload restrictions, or other limitations.
A paid AI plan may provide higher usage limits and additional features, but it is not required to get started.
When am I billed, and are membership payments refundable?
Monthly memberships are billed monthly, while annual memberships are billed upfront for the full year and automatically renew annually unless canceled before the renewal date. Membership payments are non-refundable. Canceling stops future renewals; access continues through the end of the period you have already paid for.
Know Someone Who Might Enjoy Learn…Wow!?
Share Learn…Wow! with friends, family, neighbors, coworkers, educators, or anyone who enjoys learning how things work, remembering the past, and discovering something new.
You can sign up for a personal referral link and share NuSpark Publishing by email, social media, text, or however you normally recommend something to others.
When someone joins through your link, you can earn:
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$20 referral reward for each qualifying new annual member
- You do not need to be a Learn…Wow! member to participate.
It is simply another way to spread the word, introduce more people to Learn…Wow!, and earn rewards when someone you refer becomes a member.
About the term “Affiliate”
Our referral program is powered by PromoteKit. Inside the referral portal, you may see the term affiliate. For NuSpark Publishing, that simply means you are participating in our referral program and can earn rewards when someone joins through your personal sharing link.
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