Of course, your manager would love to see you taking an interest in Success in Business or Career Development but what about those books that you have to hide when your boss is around?

Bonjour laziness : jumping off the corporate ladder by Corinne Maier
A humorous Steal This Book for the age of corporate globalism, which focuses on personal satisfaction and cultural change through sabatoge and disengaging yourself.

Throwing the elephant : Zen and the Art of Managing Up by Stanley Bing
In this wickedly funny guide, a master of Machiavellian meanness offers the nicest possible way to manipulate one’s executive elephant to achieve enlightenment and power.

How to Work for an Idiot: survive & thrive-- without killing your boss by John Hoover
You cannot change them. You cannot challenge them. But you can survive and thrive under an Idiot Boss, if you know how to deal with them.

Midlife crisis at 30 : how the stakes have changed for a new generation--and what to do about it by Lia Macko
Why has 30 become such a make-or-break moment? Why do Gen-X/Y women feel such pressure to have the perfect career, body, husband, and kids by the time they are around 30? 

How to Break out of Prison by John Wareham
Feeling trapped in a mental prison? Use the Condensed Life Insight Questionnaire created by a bestselling business writer to devise a personal breakout plan and bust out to authentic freedom.

Esquire : things a man should know about work and sex and some things in between by Ted Allen
The author is best known as the food and wine guy from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and the two subject headings for this book are Business etiquette and Sex instruction for men.