<b>William Baker and Gerald N. Wachs.</b> <i>Tom Stoppard: A Bibliographical History.</i> London and New Castle, Del.: The British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2010. xlviii, 446p. & 1 CD-ROM. alk. paper, $79.95 (ISBN 9780712349666 / 9781584562856). LC-2010-052520.

I would say that if you are interested in the philosophical, technical underpinnings of knowledge systems and of the Semantic Web and semantic technologies generally, this is a good book to have due to the chapters by Magee. (I found his chapter " On commensurability " to be something of a tour de force summary of some main currents of the past fifty years of both Anglophone and Continental philosophy, and the chapter following, " A framework for commensurability, " in particular the subsection " Quantifying commensurability, " to be the most novel in the book.) It is also a good book for its wealth of sometimes profound insights into the evolution of scholarship and scientific communication from a relatively static print culture into what's already emerged as a protean electronic culture, as well as the movement from a computational environment largely limited to the processing of dumb strings of characters to one where the semantics of those strings are specified and can be programmatically exploited. This book nicely points the way along the emerging path to the future, a path where semantically aware technologies as simple yet profound as the " microdata " functionality in HTML5 and as complex as rich disciplinary ontologies and the prospect of the " interlanguages " that may link them winds through an increasingly dense forest of data and the artifacts of scholarly and scientific communication. And this is the forest in which we all now live—a forest where each branch of every tree bristles with meaning.—Mark This impressive reference work attempts to document the complete creative output of Tom Stoppard in print, on stage, and on screen from his earliest journalism up to January 2010. As a comprehensive primary bibliography, it has no equal; Malcolm Page's File on Stoppard (London: Metheun, 1986) is similar in structure but twenty-five years old and relatively slim, while David Bratt's Tom Stoppard: A Reference Guide (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1982) is primarily an index of reviews and ends in 1980. Baker and Wachs attempt to identify all works authored by Stoppard, excluding those where his primary role was as performer, director, or narrator. This limitation, combined with Stoppard's vast number of interviews and public appearances , often in support of social justice causes, means that this bibliography is not fully comprehensive, but it comes as close as can be reasonably expected. Indeed, the only criticism this reviewer can …