Relative criteria searching

Relative criteria searching

Is there any way we can do a relative search from within the view of a data base.
 
This is available in the reports - how can we do this from within the views ?
 
For example - I would like to search on things like:
 
all records for THIS week , LAST week, or NEXT week - same for the month time period.
 
I realize there is last 7 days etc. but these are not the same. 
 
The relative search query is very powerful as shown in the reporting function.
 
If there is a work around please advise.
 
Thanks