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, 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 Maja Zeman and Ivana Tomas, Nasmijati psa i sedam novih priča by Olja Savinčević Ivančević ). The commentary focused on the problems encountered while translating culture-specific items (idioms, concepts and terms which do not exist in the target culture, pop culture referen...