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  • Single Girls

    A Novel

    by John Searles ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn infectious and utterly charming fictionalization of the iconic Helen Gurley Brown’s early years at the helm of Cosmopolitan, and the intrepid group of women she took under her wing to create one of the most talked about magazines of all time.In 1965, Helen Gurley Brown, a soft spoken, self-professed “mouseburger,” is fresh off the runaway success of her book Sex and the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Help for the Haunted

    A Novel

    by John Searles ...
    An orphaned teen investigates the deaths of her demonologist parents in this occult mystery and coming of age tale by a New York Times–bestselling author."A dazzling, dark portrait of a troubled family beset by the supernatural. Searles ratchets up the tension with every passing chapter, and delivers authentic and well-earned scares—all written through the lens of a lonely teenager searching for ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Construction of Social Reality

    This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a ‘five-pound note’ with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch.In The Construction of Social Reality, eminent philosopher John Searle examines the structure of social reality (or those portions of the world ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Making the Social World

    The Structure of Human Civilization

    by John Searle ...
    There are few more important philosophers at work today than John Searle, a creative and contentious thinker who has shaped the way we think about mind and language. Now he offers a profound understanding of how we create a social reality--a reality of money, property, governments, marriages, stock markets and cocktail parties. The paradox he addresses in Making the Social World is that these ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

  • Her Last Affair

    A Novel

    by John Searles ...
    "A winner: tense and terrifying with a twist you’ll never see coming. You won’t soon forget these characters and the shocking ways their lives intersect." -- Laura Dave, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told MeEvery marriage has its secrets….Skyla lives alone in the shadow of the defunct drive-in movie theater that she and her husband ran for nearly fifty years. Ever since ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Freedom and Neurobiology

    Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power

    by John Searle ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy
    Our self-conception derives mostly from our own experience. We believe ourselves to be conscious, rational, social, ethical, language-using, political agents who possess free will. Yet we know we exist in a universe that consists of mindless, meaningless, unfree, nonrational, brute physical particles. How can we resolve the conflict between these two visions?In Freedom and Neurobiology, the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Strange but True

    A Novel

    by John Searles ...
    Now a Major Motion Picture starring Amy Ryan, Greg Kinnear, and Blythe Danner."Sinister and complex.... You'll race right through it."— New York TimesAfter a mysterious fall from his New York City apartment, Philip Chase has moved back home with his mother, Charlene, a bitter woman who has never fully accepted the death of her younger son, Ronnie, five years earlier. Surrounded by memories of the ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Speech Acts

    An Essay in the Philosophy of Language

    Written in an outstandingly clear and lively style, this 1969 book provokes its readers to rethink issues they may have regarded as long since settled. ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Mind, Language And Society

    Philosophy In The Real World

    by John R Searle ...
    Disillusionment with psychology is leading more and more people to formal philosophy for clues about how to think about life. But most of us who try to grapple with concepts such as reality, truth, common sense, consciousness, and society lack the rigorous training to discuss them with any confidence. John Searle brings these notions down from their abstract heights to the terra firma of real ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Seeing Things as They Are

    A Theory of Perception

    This book provides a comprehensive account of the intentionality of perceptual experience. With special emphasis on vision Searle explains how the raw phenomenology of perception sets the content and the conditions of satisfaction of experience. The central question concerns the relation between the subjective conscious perceptual field and the objective perceptual field. Everything in the ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Boy Still Missing

    A Novel

    by John Searles ...
    It is June 1971. Dominick Pindle, a tenderhearted but aimless Massachusetts teenager, spends his nights driving around with his mother and dragging his wayward father out of bars. Late one evening, Dominick's search puts him face-to-face withhis father's seductive mistress, Edie Kramer. Instantly in lust, he begins a forbidden relationship with this beautiful, mysterious woman. Before long, though ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mind

    A Brief Introduction

    Series series Fundamentals of Philosophy Series
    "The philosophy of mind is unique among contemporary philosophical subjects," writes John Searle, "in that all of the most famous and influential theories are false." In Mind, Searle dismantles these famous and influential theories as he presents a vividly written, comprehensive introduction to the mind. Here readers will find one of the world's most eminent thinkers shedding light on the central ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD