PRESS RELEASE Books of Distinction Program Advances Global Science and Religion Dialogue

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descriptive copy about the books, author biographical data, critical
reviews, and other information. Customers ordering through the Web site
receive a 20 percent discount, and books are shipped within 24 hours.

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Books selected in 2004 and 2005 are featured on the Books of Distinction
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Mark Richardson, Philip Clayton, and Kirk Wegter-
McNelly
Routledge, 2002
Category: Science and Religion

"For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-
Hunts, and the End of Slavery"
By Rodney Stark
Princeton University Press, 2003
Category: Science and Religion

"The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and
Buddhism Meet"
By Trinh Xuan Thuan and Matthieu Ricard
Three Rivers Press, 2001
Category: Science and Religion

"The Case for Religion"
By Keith Ward
Oneworld Publications, 2004
Category: Religion

"Reformed Theology: Identity and Ecumenicity "
By Michael Welker and Wallace M. "The
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Augsburg Fortress, 2002
Category: Science and Religion

"Healing through Prayer: Health Practitioners Tell the Story"
By Herbert Benson, Larry Dossey , and John Polkinghorne
Anglican Book Centre, 1999
Category: Religion

"Evolution and Ethics: Human Morality in Biological and Religious
Perspective"
By Philip Clayton and Jeffrey Schloss
William B Eerdmans, 2004
Category: Science and Religion

"Religion and the Body"
By Sarah Coakley
Cambridge University Press, 2000
Category: Religion

"God and the Embryo: Religious Voices on Stem Cells and Cloning"
By Ronald Cole-Turner and Brent Waters
Georgetown University Press, 2003
Category: Science and Religion

"Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe"
By Simon Conway Morris
Cambridge University Press, 2003
Category: Science

"Science and the Ultimate Reality: Quantum Theory, Cosmology, and
Complexity"
By Paul Davies, John D.
William B Eerdmans, 2003
Category: Religion

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Polkinghorne
Yale University Press, 2004
Category: Science and Religion

"Human Nature and the Freedom of Public Expression "
By Stephen G.
In the scientific sector, EKM, now a member of the Oracle Partner
Network, will have access to new Oracle technologies created
specifically for the life science market.
"It will allow life science customers to leverage their
competencies and investment in Oracle's databases and architecture,
relational database management systems and data mining enhancements,"
said Thomas Chung, chair of EKM's Scientific Advisory Board.

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Books of Distinction, now in its second year , is funded by the John
Templeton Foundation and managed by Templeton Foundation Press. A direct mail piece featuring the books is sent to scholars,
researchers, libraries, and other organizations and individuals, to
encouraging classroom adoption, group and individual sales.

Books of Distinction for 2005, grouped in categories (Science and Religion,
Spirituality and Health, Religion, Psychology , and Science), are:

"Nature, Human Nature and God"
By Ian G. Ellis
Templeton Foundation Press, 2002
Category: Science and Religion

"The Psychology of Gratitude"
By Robert Emmons and Michael E.
Navy and U. EKM offers three versions
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EKM has already
successfully supplied its financial management technology to the U.
The strategic partnership will not only allow EKM to access Oracle's
dominant life science market share, but it will also benefit current
and future life science users of LABTrack .
For more information, please visit www.ekmco.

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In the government sector, the partnership will allow EKM to
enhance the company's AFIS financial reporting applications with more
extensive integration of the Oracle product line. The Enterprise version is also a powerful and flexible
server-based collaborative application that can be accessed by several
thousand users in a large corporation or academic/research
institution, including top -level management.

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University of Notre Dame Press, 2003
Category: Science and Religion

"Pilgrim Without Boundaries"
By Ravi Ravindra
Morning Light Press, 2003
Category: Spirituality and Health

"God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation Are
Changing America"
By Naomi Schaefer Riley
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New Oracle Partnership Drives Continued Development of EKM Corp.'s Knowledge Management Products

"This partnership benefits our customers because EKM can take
advantage of the newest technologies that Oracle offers in advance of
product releases, and incorporate them into LABTrack," said Richard
Stember, CEO of EKM's Scientific Division.

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Twenty -nine books from a variety of
publishers are this year's Books of Distinction -- scholarly,
well -researched books that advance the global science and religion
dialogue.
LABTrack, which already uses Oracle data management software, runs
on any Windows-based device.

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And press releases
focusing on several books at a time are issued throughout the year. Biebel
Zondervan, 2004
Category: Psychology

"When Faiths Collide"
By Martin E. LABTrack
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Barrow, and Charles Harper, Jr. McCullough
Oxford University Press, 2004
Category: Psychology

"Science and Religion in Search of Cosmic Purpose"
By John Haught
Georgetown University Press, 2000
Category: Science and Religion

"Technology and Human Becoming"
By Philip Hefner
Augsburg Fortress, 2003
Category: Science and Religion

"Creative Tension: Essays on Science and Religion"
By Michael Heller
Templeton Foundation Press, 2003
Category: Science and Religion

"From Cells to Souls and Beyond: Changing Portraits of Human Nature"
By Malcolm Jeeves
William B Eerdmans, 2004
Category: Science and Religion

"New Light on Depression: Help, Hope, and Answers for the Depressed and
Those Who Love Them"
By Harold Koenig and David B. Marty
Blackwell Publishing, 2005
Category: Religion

"Creation"
By Alister McGrath
Augsburg Fortress, 2005
Category: Religion

"Islam: Religion, History, and Civilization"
By Seyyed Hossein Nasr
HarperSanFrancisco, 2003
Category: Religion

"In Whom We Live and Move and Have Our Being: Panentheistic Reflections on
God's Presence in a Scientific World"
By Arthur Peacocke and Philip Clayton
William B Eerdmans, 2004
Category: Science and Religion

"Evolution from Creation to New Creation: Conflict, Conversation , and
Convergence"
By Ted Peters and Martinez Hewlett
Abingdon Press, 2003
Category: Science and Religion

"Science and the Trinity: The Christian Encounter with Reality"
By John C. EKM
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With a
goal of encouraging additional press attention for these books, classroom
adoption, group sales, and individual sales, a supplementary marketing
program that involves a national marketing campaign promotes each year's
selections.
Cambridge University Press, 2004
Category: Science

"The Ethics of Nature"
By Celia Deane-Drummond
Blackwell Publishing , 2004
Category: Science and Religion

"The Far-Future Universe: Eschatology from a Cosmic Perspective "
By George F. Martin's Press, 2005
Category: Religion

"Science and the Spiritual Quest: New Essays by Leading Scientists"
By Robert John Russell, W.S.

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These types of new technologies can now be integrated with EKM's
electronic lab notebook software LABTrack."
According to IDC Research, Oracle has 63. EKM has
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United States and is the recipient of IBM's prestigious Beacon Award
for the Best Integrated Business Solution for 2003.

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org/bod. One of those technologies is
BLAST, an algorithm used for looking for patterns in genes and
technologies that Oracle is importing into its life science offerings.

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