SpineWeek 2004 Combined Meeting of Leading Scientific Spine Societies 31st May thru 5th June, 2004 Porto, Portugal View the Thieme Program at the following booth: Lidel Edicoes Tecnicas Lda Booth No. 101, First Floor, Exhibition Area! At the Lidel Edicoes booth, you will find a full display of Thieme's new and backlist titles, our meeting special offers, and our journals. The staff will be happy to answer any inquiries you may have on Thieme's current and future orthopedics program. A full-color brochure listing the complete current and forthcoming title list will be waiting for you at the booth. Three of our bestsellers from last year will be on sale: Vaccaro/Spine Surgery: Tricks of the Trade Haher/Surgical Techniques for the Spine Dewald/Spinal Deformities Along with new titles such as: Mirzayan/Shoulder and Elbow Trauma Plancher/MasterCases in Hand and Wrist Surgery From Thieme's medical imaging program, there will be the new MRI title: Uhlenbrock/MR Imaging of the Spine and Spinal Cord Free samples of the new AO journal Orthopedic Trauma Directions (OTD) will be available from the Lidel booth. This new bi-monthly publication summarizes several articles dealing with one cutting-edge topic, treatment, outcome or clinical question. This reviewing process by experts reduces the time needed for surgeons to analyse the latest literature. The 4-yearly combined meeting of the most important international spine societies has reached a new level of significance as the SpineWeek 2004. The meeting is jointly organized by the following societies: - International Society for Study of the Lumbar Spine (ISSLS) - Spine Society of Europe (SSE) - Sociedad Iberolatinoamericana de Columna Vertebral (SILACO) - Cervical Spine Research Society - European Section - Brazil Spine Society - Asia Pacific Orthopedic Association - Spine Section For general information on the SPINEWEEK 2004, visit the official website: www.spineweek.com Click here for a full list of the Thieme orthopedics titles and radiology titles.

Medical Library Association 2004 Annual Meeting May 22-25, 2004                       Washington, DC                       Visit us at booth #401! Thieme will be presenting the following and other essential electronic resources in medicine: The Thieme ElectronicBook Library covers every course in the medical school curriculum. Join us at the MLA Sunrise Seminar on Tuesday, May 25, 2004 for the official launch. Thieme-Connect: Get connected to journal titles in medicine, chemistry, and life science. Stop by for a demonstration of the newly relaunched website. Natural Standard: Provides evidence-based information on complementary and alternative medical therapies. We look forward to seeing you at the booth! For more information about the meeting, please visit the MLA website

Digestive Disease Week 2004 Annual Meeting May 16-19, 2004                       New Orleans, LA                       Visit us at booth #2137! Visit our booth to view featured titles such as Classen's bestselling Gastroenterological Endoscopy at the special meeting price of $199, as well as the prestigious international journal, Endoscopy (special meeting price for new subscribers $149). We'll also have on hand the new Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Liver Disease, Q&A in Hepatobiliary Medicine, Kremer's Minimally Invasive Abdominal Surgery, a host of new complementary medicine books, and more! We look forward to seeing you at the booth. Click here for a complete list of our gastroenterology titles. Email us to sign up for our Gastroenterology eNews

35th TCM Conference AGTCM e. V. May 18 - May 23, 2004 Rothenburg o.d. Tauber/Germany Thieme books on display at the SATAS booth (Exhibitor's Hall)! The TCM congress is one of the most important symposiums on Traditional East Asian Medicine worldwide, and the 35th annual meeting will be held in Rothenburg from May 18-May 23, 2004. It is a non-commercial event held by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft fuer Klassische Akupunktur und TCM e. V. (German Association of Traditional Acupuncture and TCM) Visit the SATAS booth in the Exhibitor's Hall at the Wildbad Conference Center to view an impressive array of new resources in Thieme's Complementary Medicine program, including the long-awaited Chinese Nutrition Therapy, by Joerg Kastner, MD, LAc. "Kastner's Chinese Nutrition Therapy is an excellent introduction to Chinese dietetics for both students and practitioners of Chinese medicine," says Nigel Wiseman, author of the renowned Practical Dictionary of Chinese Medicine. "I wholeheartedly endorse his book." Also on display will be Pocket Guide of Herbal Medicine, by Karin Kraft, MD, and Christopher Hobbs, LAc, AHG. This new, convenient guidebook provides easy access to information on administering herbal remedies, supported by major European monographs and up-to-date clinical trials. Angelika-M. Findgott, Editor for Thieme's line of CAM references, will be at the Rothenburg conference from Tuesday, May 18 through Sunday, May 22, and she is very interested in hearing your book ideas, questions, or thoughts on CAM. Please email or call her +49-(0)711-8931-330 to schedule an appointment at your convenience. We look forward to seeing you at the TCM Conference! Click here for a complete list of our CAM titles. Email us to sign up for our CAM eNews

72nd Annual Meeting American Association of Neurological Surgeons May 3-5, 2004 Orlando, FL Visit us at booth #1725! Visit our booth to view featured titles such as the long-awaited second edition of The CerefyŽ Clinical Brain Atlas on CD-ROM, at a limited time early publication price; Microelectrode Recording in Movement Disorder Surgery; Cranial Neuroimaging and Clinical Neuroanatomy, 3rd Edition; MR Imaging of the Spine and Spinal Cord; and Atlas of Head and Neck Imaging. We'll also have the second edition of Plastic Techniques in Neurosurgery by the world-renowned experts Drs. James Tait Goodrich and David Staffenberg, as well as bestsellers such as MasterCases in Spine Surgery, Spinal Deformities, and many others! Click here for a complete list of our neurosurgery titles. Email us to sign up for our Neurosurgery eNews

Pharmaceutical and Health Technology Division Special Libraries Association (SLA) April 25-27, 2004 Philadelphia, PA Visit our booth and get more information on such acclaimed products as Science of Synthesis and Houben-Weyl, Thieme's major reference works in synthetic chemistry, providing 200 years worth of methods for desired transformations, Synthesis and Synlett, Thieme Chemistry's high-impact journals in synthetic chemistry, the popular Flexibooks for students, now available online, the Natural Standard Database that provides evidence-based information on complementary and alternative medical therapies, the Thieme-connect online journals service, and many other useful online services and products!

16th Annual Convention and Expo American Academy of Audiology Thank you for visiting us in Salt Lake City! We enjoyed exhibiting at the AAA again this year. Elizabeth Strouthides, Sales Coordinator at Thieme Medical Publishers and AAA veteran, came back with a lot of new ideas. Here's what she has to say about Dr. Alan Desmond's new book, Vestibular Function: Evaluation and Treatment: "It was our bestseller at the American Academy of Audiology meeting! I repeatedly overheard audiologists say that they have been waiting a long time for a book like this to come out. There certainly has been need for a text on this subject, and Dr. Desmond has really done an outstanding job of covering it." If you missed the meeting or our great selection of books, information is available online at www.thieme.com. Here's a list of our top sellers: Vestibular Function: Evaluation and Treatment by Alan Desmond AuD, CCC-A Auditory Disorders in School Children, 4th edition by Ross Roeser, PhD, and Marion Downs, DHS Strategies for Selecting and Verifying Hearing Aid Fittings by Michael Valente, PhD A Pocket Guide to the Ear by Albert L. Menner, MD Geriatric Audiology, by Barbara E. Weinstein, PhD Also take a look at our specialty journals, Seminars in Hearing and Seminars in Speech and Language! Click here for the complete list of audiology and speech language titles. Email us to sign up for Audiology eNews

16th Annual Symposium American Academy of Medical Acupuncture April 2-4, 2004 Chicago, IL Visit us at booth #215! Make sure to stop by our booth #215 to take a look at our acupuncture line with titles such as the Color Atlas of Acupuncture, Dr. Rubach's Principles of Ear Acupuncture, the bestselling Ear Acupuncture atlas by Dr. Strittmatter, her new book Identifying and Treating Blockages to Healing, and many others! We're looking forward to seeing you at the Thieme booth! Click here for a list of our acupuncture and complementary medicine titles. Email us to sign up for our Complementary Medicine eNews

71st Annual American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons March 10th-12th, 2004 San Francisco, CA Visit us at booth #100! Make sure to stop by our booth #100 to pick up the first issue of the new journal Orthopedic Trauma Directions and many other state-of-the-art resources! Also on display will be Shoulder and Elbow Trauma, Pediatric Fractures and Dislocations, the bestselling Spine Surgery Tricks of the Trade, Beasley's Surgery of the Hand, AO Image Collection on CD-ROM, and many others! We're looking forward to seeing you again at the Thieme booth! Click here for a list of our orthopedics and spine surgery titles. Email us to sign up for our Orthopedics eNews

15th Annual North American Skull Base Society February 14th-16th, 2004                         New Orleans, LA Visit us at booth #22/23! We're looking forward to seeing you again at the Thieme booth. Make sure to stop by and check out our new titles, special offers, and our journal selection. For more information, including registration, please visit the congress website. Click here for our journal Skull Base, which will be at the meeting. Click here for a list of our skull base titles and neurosurgery titles.

10th Rotterdam International Skull Base Day "Challenges in the Management of Cranial Base Lesions" January 17th, 2004 Rotterdam, The Netherlands This one-day congress is meant for neurosurgeons, radiologists, ENT surgeons, and maxillo-facial surgeons. For more information, including registration, please visit the congress website. Click here for our journal Skull Base, which will be at the meeting. Click here for a list of our skull base titles.