This thesis comprises five translations with commentary. Excerpts from three books were translated from English into Croatian (“Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour” by Kate Fox, “Sociology Beyond Societies: Mobilities for the Twenty-First Century” by John Urry and “The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution” by Susan Hockfield), and two from Croatian into English (“Spomenici otoka Lopuda od antike do srednjeg vijeka” by Ivana Tomas and Maja Zeman, and “Nasmijati psa i sedam novih priča” by Olja Savičević Ivančević). The commentary focused on a variety of issues such as culture-specific items, terminology and metaphors, and it provided reasoning behind certain translation choices...