Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner is known for his work on mutiple intelligences - the idea that there is not one kind of "intelligence," but up to seven of them.
It's an interesting approach. IQ, which is an individually stable and inherited tendency, likely measures your linguistic and logical-mathematical "intelligences." His books are also on that link above.
Neuroanthropology linked to a speech he gave in Bogota about his personal intellectual history and his views on science and life, Multiple Lenses on the Mind.