-- Meandering down to the sea

-- Rivers from lakes

-- The oceanic phone booth

-- In the blue

-- The moon-glades

-- The Foucault pendulum and the Baer law

-- The moon-brake

-- Why the violin sings

-- The chiming and silent goblets

-- The bubble and the droplet

-- The mysteries of the magic lamp

-- The water mic or about one invention of Alexander Bell's

-- How waves transmit information

-- Why electric power lines are droning

-- The footprints on the sand

-- How to prevent snowdrifts?

-- The incident on the train

-- Craving microwaved mammoth

-- The physics of baking good pizza

-- Boiling, steaming, or rinsing?

-- The mystery of the Christmas turkey

-- Macaroni, spaghetti, and physics

-- Ab(out) ovo

-- Waiting for the kettle to boil

-- The physics of good coffee

-- "Nunc est bibendum": physicists talk around glasses of wine

-- The birth of new physics at the turn of the century

-- The uncertainty principle

-- On snowballs, nuts, bubbles and liquid helium

-- Superconductivity: a century of discoveries, dreams, and disappointments

-- What is a SQUID?

-- Superconducting magnets

-- What is magnetic resonance imaging?

-- Towards a quantum computer

-- A great but terrible nuclear energy.

"The book in your hands develops the best traditions of the Russian scientific popular literature. Written in a clear and captivating manner by working theoretical physicists, who are, at the same time, dedicated popularizers of scientific knowledge, it brings to the reader the latest achievements in quantum solid-state physics, but along the way it also shows how the laws of physics reveal themselves even in seemingly trivial episodes concerning the natural phenomena around us. And most importantly, it shows that we live in the world, where scientists are capable of "proving harmony with algebra."--A A Abrikosov, 2003 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics"-- Publisher's website