Good discussion of lots of technical stuff, including regions of the brain, how nerves work, & artificial neural nets
http://www.amazon.com/Brain-Very-Short-Introduction/dp/B002KE9BPO/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352690693&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Brain%3A+A+Very+Short+Introduction+%28Unabridged%29
http://www.amazon.com/Little-History-World-H-Gombrich/dp/0300108834 A Little History of the World [Hardcover]
E. H. Gombrich (Author)
Not such a good one
Lots of movie mentions: Momento, Total Recall, Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, The Matrix (as Plato’s cave)
Claims Murray and Herrnstein’s Bell Curve discredited by Head Start
The Philosophical Baby: What Children’s Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life
Alison Gopnik
http://www.amazon.com/Philosophical-Baby-Childrens-Minds-Meaning/dp/0374231966