Intelligent, surprising sci-fi on a world-spanning scale.
"The Maze of Bones," which sends a pair of likable orphans on a world-spanning treasure hunt, displays a glossy, tightly engineered appeal.
From the Guadeloupian novelist Maryse Condé to the French-Congolese writer Alain Mabanckou, a world-spanning shortlist for the Man Booker International prize will offer readers "an extraordinary variety of experiences", according to chair of judges Marina Warner.
Ulrich Hocker, the head of a shareholder activist group, welcomed his departure, saying: "Mr Schrempp's dream of a world-spanning company, the Welt AG, was shattered long ago and shareholders have been paying the bill".
This age of homogeneity was brought on by the creation of a world-spanning economic system as crops, worms, parasites and people traveled among Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia -- the Columbian Exchange, as it was dubbed by the geographer Alfred W. Crosby.
The creation from the ground up of a secure yet inherently "social" system like that of a world-spanning military data network has a lot of similarities with what those world-spanning networks have been doing for some time.
A world-spanning story; playable characters that are distinct in abilities, personalities, and motivations; secrets and side quests galore; pixel art that still amazes with its expressiveness.
I spoke recently with Tim and Nina Zagat, Zagat Survey's co-founders, about how they built a hobby into a world-spanning brand.
La Jolla, California-based raremaps.com has you covered, with a world-spanning wealth of antique maps, atlases and reference books that are part geographies and part curiosities.
Facebook is an amazing service and tool, and deserves respect both as a trailblazer and as a bricklayer, putting down first the notion and then the fact of a world-spanning social network.
This high level of superintendence was established because these roads weren't just to make the farmers' cart rides easier; they were to be the foundation for a world-spanning civilization that they saw lasting, well, forever.
