Major Nations in a Global World: Tradition, Culture, and Daily Life explores how people live in the world today–influenced by their ancestors but in tandem with the demands and expectations of modern life. Exploring history and religion, family and friends, school and work, arts and leisure, and architecture and the built environment, the series celebrates what makes key countries unique magnets for the world’s fascination. Italy’s obsession with fast cars, France’s artisanal industries, Japan’s tea ceremony, Mexico’s monumental Aztec structures–these traditions and more are celebrated in Major Nations in a Global World.