ISBN: 9798187191260 - living one emergency away: economic insecurity, chronic stress, and the erosion of stability (the human commons) (6 resultados)

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. What happens to a life when one ordinary emergency can unsettle everything?Living One Emergency Away is a serious, compassionate nonfiction book about economic insecurity, chronic stress, and the emotional erosion that comes from living without reliable financial safety.This is not a budgeting book. It is not a mindset book. It does not offer shallow advice about staying positive, working harder, or simply making better choices. Instead, it looks carefully at what financial instability does to the body, the mind, relationships, health, decision-making, and the ability to imagine a future.When there is no margin, ordinary life becomes fragile. A flat tire can threaten rent. A rent increase can change sleep. A child's need can bring both love and panic. A medical bill can lead to delayed care, debt, shame, or impossible trade-offs. The problem is not always that people do not understand the math. Often, they know the math painfully well. The numbers simply do not give them enough room.Living One Emergency Away explores: The nervous system under financial threatThe fragile math of survivalDecision-making when the future keeps collapsingRelationships under economic pressureThe health cost of prolonged insecurityThe erosion of tomorrowWritten in clear, grounded prose, this book de-pathologizes many responses that are often judged from the outside: avoiding bills, feeling irritable over small expenses, struggling to relax, buying one small comfort, delaying care, withdrawing from friends, or finding it difficult to plan long-term. These responses are not presented as ideal or harmless. They are understood as human responses to prolonged pressure.Economic insecurity is not only about money. It is about sleep, dignity, attention, health, family, work, memory, and time. It is about the body learning to brace because too many ordinary needs have become dangerous. It is about relationships carrying pressure that love alone cannot absorb. It is about the future becoming harder to trust because the present keeps taking everything.For readers who have lived paycheck to paycheck, experienced chronic financial stress, struggled with poverty, or watched economic instability shape family life, this book offers language without blame. For readers seeking to understand the emotional and psychological cost of financial precarity, it offers a sober and accessible reflection on what instability does to ordinary human life.Stability is not a moral prize.It is one of the conditions that allows people to rest, repair, plan, care, and become more fully available to life. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. What happens to a life when one ordinary emergency can unsettle everything?Living One Emergency Away is a serious, compassionate nonfiction book about economic insecurity, chronic stress, and the emotional erosion that comes from living without reliable financial safety.This is not a budgeting book. It is not a mindset book. It does not offer shallow advice about staying positive, working harder, or simply making better choices. Instead, it looks carefully at what financial instability does to the body, the mind, relationships, health, decision-making, and the ability to imagine a future.When there is no margin, ordinary life becomes fragile. A flat tire can threaten rent. A rent increase can change sleep. A child's need can bring both love and panic. A medical bill can lead to delayed care, debt, shame, or impossible trade-offs. The problem is not always that people do not understand the math. Often, they know the math painfully well. The numbers simply do not give them enough room.Living One Emergency Away explores: The nervous system under financial threatThe fragile math of survivalDecision-making when the future keeps collapsingRelationships under economic pressureThe health cost of prolonged insecurityThe erosion of tomorrowWritten in clear, grounded prose, this book de-pathologizes many responses that are often judged from the outside: avoiding bills, feeling irritable over small expenses, struggling to relax, buying one small comfort, delaying care, withdrawing from friends, or finding it difficult to plan long-term. These responses are not presented as ideal or harmless. They are understood as human responses to prolonged pressure.Economic insecurity is not only about money. It is about sleep, dignity, attention, health, family, work, memory, and time. It is about the body learning to brace because too many ordinary needs have become dangerous. It is about relationships carrying pressure that love alone cannot absorb. It is about the future becoming harder to trust because the present keeps taking everything.For readers who have lived paycheck to paycheck, experienced chronic financial stress, struggled with poverty, or watched economic instability shape family life, this book offers language without blame. For readers seeking to understand the emotional and psychological cost of financial precarity, it offers a sober and accessible reflection on what instability does to ordinary human life.Stability is not a moral prize.It is one of the conditions that allows people to rest, repair, plan, care, and become more fully available to life. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…