Books with author Patricia Barnes-Svarney

Effective strategies for coping in a difficult workplace.... People who work for abusive employers suffer potentially severe health-endangering stress that gets worse the longer it continues. Many are driven to quit or are fired. Zen theory and tools offer a proven path to stress relief and can be adapted easily to the workplace. Zen buys time for workers to effectively pursue an internal complaint, find another job, or to collect evidence for a future unemployment compensation claim or lawsuit. Moreover, Zen helps targets avoid responding to abuse in an impulsive and self-defeating way. Targets gain insight into their problems and focus to achieve a constructive solution. The author, a judge and attorney, provides concrete advice on how best to respond to workplace abuse. One in every three or four workers is bullied on the job. Be proactive. Save your job and your sanity!

A practical, accessible, and informative guide to the science of criminal investigations.Covering the fundamentals, science, history, and analysis of clues, The Handy Forensic Science Answer Book: Reading Clues at the Crime Scene, Crime Lab and in Court provides detailed information on crime scene investigations, techniques, laboratory finding, the latest research, and controversies. It looks at the science of law enforcement, how evidence is gathered, processed, analyzed, and viewed in the courtroom, and more. From the cause, manner, time of a death, and autopsies to blood, toxicology, DNA typing, fingerprints, ballistics, tool marks, tread impressions, and trace evidence, it takes the reader through the many sides of a death investigation. Arson, accidents, computer crimes, criminal profiling, and much, much more are also addressed. The Handy Forensic Science Answer Book gives real-world examples and looks at what Hollywood gets right and wrong. It provides the history of the science, and it introduces the scientists behind breakthroughs. An easy-to-use and informative reference, it brings the complexity of a criminal investigation into focus and provides well-researched answers to over 950 common questions, such as … What is the difference between cause of death and manner of death? How did a person’s skull fit into criminal evidence in the early 1800s? When were fingerprints first used to identify a criminal? How is the approximate time of death of a crime scene victim determined? What is forensic serology? What is the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System? Can a forensics expert look at skeletal remains and tell whether the person was obese? How can a simple knot analyzed in the crime lab be used as evidence? Can fingerprints be permanently changed or destroyed? How fast does a bullet travel? How was a chemical analysis of ink important in the conviction of Martha Stewart? What types of data are often retrieved from a crime scene cellphone? Can analyses similar to those used in forensics be used to uncover doping in athletics? What is the Personality Assessment Inventory? What are some motives that cause an arsonist to start a fire? What state no longer allows bite marks as admissible evidence in a trial? What is the Innocence Project? Why are eyewitness accounts not always reliable? Who was “Jack the Ripper”? Providing the facts, stats, history, and science, The Handy Forensic Science Answer Book answers intriguing questions about criminal investigations. This informative book also includes a helpful bibliography, glossary of terms, and an extensive index, adding to its usefulness.

Zen and the Difficult Workplace provides workers, from CEOs to janitors, effective strategies to maintain perspective and a sense of calm in a high-stress, conflict -driven workplace. Abusive employers, bully bosses and jealous co-workers often cause their targets to suffer potentially severe health-endangering stress that gets worse the longer it continues. Targets frequently are driven out of the workplace. They are forced to quit for health reasons or they are fired. BE PROACTIVE. SAVE YOUR JOB AND YOUR SANITY! It is imperative that workers who are suffering from high-stress find a way to cope long enough to find and pursue a positive course of action, one that not only preserves their mental and physical health but also avoids a permanent blotch on their employment record. Zen and the Difficult Workplace applies Buddhist theory and Zen meditation techniques to the difficult workplace. Readers will learn how to think differently about workplace stress. They will learn to use simple meditation techniques to defuse workplace tensions and achieve a sense of serenity. This book offers guided meditations designed specifically to address a difficult workplace. Patricia G. Barnes is a nationally-known expert on workplace bullying and discrimination who has counseled dozens of workers (and employers) around the country regarding problematic workplace environments. Ms. Barnes observed that workers suffering from high-stress often react impulsively and contrary to their own best interests. This book helps targets avoid self-defeating behaviors, such as sending out incendiary emails that are used against them. An attorney and former judge, Ms. Barnes also provides advice on worker rights and potential legal remedies available to targets of abusive managers and employers. She is also the author of Surviving Bullies, Queen Bees & Psychopaths in the Workplace and the editor of the syndicated employment law blog, When the Abuser Goes to Work. She has been quoted in many national publications, including The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Fast Company. Other books written by Ms. Barnes include Overcoming Age Discrimination in Employment (2016) and Betrayed: The Legalization of Age Discrimination in Employment (2015). Your job is the cornerstone of your life; the source of your financial well-being and social standing. It's worth fighting for. But at the same time it is also just a job. As the Buddha said, "Your worst enemy can not harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded. But once mastered, no one can help you as much, not even your father or your mother."