Career
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. Cuneiform Texts and the Writing of History (1999)
King Hammurabi of Babylon (2005) Blackwell, Oxford. The Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of Ramesses II (2007) Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford.
A History of Ancient Egypt (2011) Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. with Bonnie Smith, Richard von Glahn, and Kris Lane "Crossroads and Cultures.
A History of the World"s Peoples" 2012, Bedford-Saint Martin,
A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 British Columbia (2015) Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford.