Yale University 1983) is a professor (full professor 1996) of Ancient Near Eastern history at Columbia University.
In addition to his articles and translations, his book publications include:
Crafts in the Early Isin Period (1987),
Sumerian Administrative Documents from the Reigns of Ishbi-Erra and Shu-Ilishu (1987)
Society and Enterprise in Old Babylonian Ur (1992)
The Ancient Mesopotamian City (1997 and 1999) Oxford University Press, Oxford.
ISBN 978-0-19-815286-6
Cuneiform Texts and the Writing of History (1999)
King Hammurabi of Babylon (2005) Blackwell, Oxford.
ISBN 978-1-4051-2660-1
The Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of Ramesses II (2007) Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford.
ISBN 978-1-4051-6069-8
A History of Ancient Egypt (2011) Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford.
ISBN 978-1-4051-6071-1
with Bonnie Smith, Richard von Glahn, and Kris Lane, Crossroads and Cultures.
A History of the World's Peoples (2012), Bedford-St.
Martin, ISBN 0-312-57317-0
A History of the Ancient Near East, ca.
3000-323 BC (2015) Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford.
ISBN 978-1118718162
Philosophy before the Greeks.
The Pursuit of Truth in Ancient Babylonia (2015), Princeton University Press.