What We Are Reading Today: Sinkable

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Updated 12 September 2022
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What We Are Reading Today: Sinkable

Author: Daniel Stone

In Sinkable, Daniel Stone spins a fascinating tale of history, science, and obsession, uncovering the untold story of the Titanic not as a ship but as a shipwreck.

He explores generations of eccentrics, like American Charles Smith, whose 1914 recovery plan using a synchronized armada of ships bearing electromagnets; Jack Grimm, a Texas oil magnate who spent a fortune to find the wreck after failing to find Noah’s Ark; and the British Doug Woolley who has claimed, since the 1960s, to be the true owner of the Titanic wreckage.

Brimming with humor, curiosity and wit, Sinkable offers  an immensely entertaining romp through the deep sea and the nature of obsession.


What We Are Reading Today: Origins of the Just War

Updated 06 February 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: Origins of the Just War

“Origins of the Just War” reveals the incredible richness and complexity of ethical thought about war in the three millennia preceding the Greco-Roman period, establishing the extent to which ancient just war thought prefigured much of what we now consider to be the building blocks of the Western just war tradition. 

In this book, Rory Cox traces the earliest ideas concerning the complex relationship between war, ethics and justice. He shows that the history of the just war is considerably more ancient and geographically diffuse than previously assumed.