Margarita Ryutova (Kemoklidze) received her MSc and PhD from the famous Landau Theoretical Department, Kapitsa Institute for Physical Problems, Moscow and worked there until she married and moved to Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics. Since 1994 she lives in the United States where she has been affiliated with Stanford Lockheed Institute for Space Research in Palo Alto and Lawrence Livermore National laboratory.

She has 30 years of experience in teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Physics and Mathematics. This includes supervising graduate and PhD students. She has published over 100 research papers and reviews in various fields of theoretical and experimental physics such as Statistical Physics, Solar Physics, Laboratory and Plasma Astrophysics, Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics, Solitons, Shocks and Selforganization, Superfluidity and Superconductivity.

Along with research in physics, she works in and has published books and essays on the history of physics and mathematics.

Presents vital knowledge for understanding fundamental processes in the solar and stellar atmospheres, as well as in laboratory plasmas and earth's magnetosphere

Covers both theory and observations

Presents theoretical models in analytical and phenomenological forms tailored for practical applications

Provides learning material at the end of the chapters with problems and solutions, and guides researchers how to choose and interpret observational data

Preface.- The Sun's Magnetic Fields.- A Quick Look on Small-Scale Flux Tubes.- Intrinsic Properties of Flux Tubes - Wave Phenomena.- Effects of Flux Tube Inhomogeneities and Weak Nonlinearity.- Flux Tube Dynamics in the Presence of Mass Flows.- Collective Phenomena Ensembles of Flux Tubes.- Effects of Magnetic Flux Tubes in Helioseismology.- Wave Phenomena in Dense Conglomerate of Flux Tubes.- Nonlinear Wave Phenomena in Dense Conglomerate of Flux Tubes.- Magnetosonic Streaming.- Moving Magnetic Features (MMFs).- Reconnection of Flux Tubes - Specifics of High Plasma ß.- Post-Reconnection Processes - Shocks, Jets and Microflares.- Photospheric Network as Energy Source for Quiet-Sun Corona.- Response of the Corona to Magnetic Activity in Underlying Plage Regions.- Electrodynamic Coupling of Active Region Corona with the Photosphere.- Fine Structure of Penumbrae: Formation and Dynamics.- Bow Shocks and Plasma Jetting over Penumbrae.- Selforganization in the Corona and Flare Precursors.- Quiescent Prominences.- Laboratory Experiments Scaled to Solar and Space Plasmas.- What to Observe in Low Atmosphere.- What to Observe in the Upper Atmosphere.- Solutions.