First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- 1.Beauty English, the object of longing -- 2.Yapha Hebrew, glow, bloom -- 3.Sundara Sanskrit, holiness -- 4.To Kalon Greek, idea, ideal -- 5.Wabi-Sabi Japanese, humility, imperfection -- 6.Hozho Navajo, health, harmony -- Coda -- Notes -- Illustrations -- Index.

Crispin Sartwell teaches at Dickinson College. The author of several books, he is also a syndicated columnist whose work appears regularly in the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Los Angeles Times.