This book is a translation, by Mr. S. Dunlop, FRAS, of the second German edition of Veranderliche Sterne published by Johann Ambrosius Barth Ver lag, Leipzig, DDR, and Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York Tokyo. We have used the opportunity to make improvements and changes in a few places and to add details of new results and discoveries. The foreword to the second German edition remains no less valid for this one, including the changes. We would like to express our thanks to Mr. Dunlop for his expert and sympathetic translation and for the many improvements he suggested. December 1984 G. RICHTER and W. WENZEL Preface to the Second German Edition The suggestion that a second edition of this book should be prepared came equally from the readers, the publishers, and from the editors of the first edition. By a lucky coincidence the completion of the manuscript and the composition of these lines comes at the time of the 90th anniversary of the birth of Cuno Hoffmeister, the author of the first edition, and consequently this current work may be dedicated to his memory."

Der Vorschlag, eine zweite Auflage diel: les Buches herauszubringen, kam gleicher- massen vom Kreis der Benutzer, vom Verlag und von den Herausgebern der ersten Auflage. Durch einen glucklichen Zufall fallt die Vollendung des Manuskripts und die Abfassung dieser Zeilen in die Zeit des 90. Geburtstages von CUNO HOFFMEISTER, dem Autor der ersten Auflage, und so soll das vorliegende Werk seinem Andenken gewidmet sein. Was CUNO HOFFMEISTER zu Beginn des Vorworts der ersten Auflage uber die Schwierigkeiten der Literaturauswahl schrieb, galt naturlich nicht nur fur ihn damals, sondern es gilt fur uns heute in verstarktem Masse. Zwar hat, nicht zuletzt durch die Aktivitat der Internationalen Astronomischen Union, die Anzahl zusammen- fassender Darstellungen von Teilgebieten, die beispielsweise auf Symposien oder Kolloquien behandelt wurden, stark zugenommen. Die Autoren dieser zweiten Auflage konnten und mussten hierauf vielfaltig zuruckgreifen und verweisen. Trotzdem musste in zahlreichen Fallen die Literaturauswahl subjektiv bleiben, und sie fuhrte nicht sel- ten, gelegentlich sogar gewollt, zu einer Betonung eigener Arbeitsgebiete und Interes- sen. In- und auslandische Fachkollegen moegen freundlich entschuldigen, wenn sie nicht genugend oder gar nicht zitiert sind, weil wir keinerlei Versuch gewagt haben, Vollstandigkeit anzustreben.

This volume provides insight into whether or how sport hunting might play a strategic role in the conservation and management of polar bear in Canada's North, and examines the economic benefits to Inuit and their communities, both in terms of its monetary and sociocultural importance by examining Inuit participation in the polar bear sporthunt in the communities of Taloyoak, Resolute Bay, and Clyde River. At first glance, sport hunting may appear to have little to offer by way of insight about resource co-management. Yet, there are several important lessons to be learned from the way this aspect of the Inuit-polar bear relationship has evolved. For Inuit, the cultural, economic, and social aspects of polar bear hunting, including that carried out by visitors seeking tangible trophies, are equally intertwined.

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