This thesis comprises five annotated translations, accompanied by a discussion. Excerpts from two books were translated from English into Croatian. The first one was Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind. Intercultural Cooperation and Its Importance for Survival written by Hofstede, Hofstede, and Minkov, and published in 2010. The second one was A University Education written by David Willets and published in 2017. An excerpt from one book was translated from Croatian into English. The book is called Društvene igre, which was written ba Andrija Škare and published in 2017. The translation assignment also included a brochure “Vodič antičke zbirke” for the Archeological Museum in Zagreb. The final assignment comprised short medical summaries for the website Cochrane Hrvatska. The discussion focused on the background research for translation of different types of texts. The focus was mainly on two texts out of all of those enumerated – Škare’s book Društvene igre and Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind. Intercultural Cooperation and Its Importance for Survival by Hofstede, Hofstede, and Minkov. The reason why these two were chosen is so that the differences between two different types of texts – one that is literary and one that belongs to a more scientific genre and has a specialized purpose – as well as the background research that is needed could be in greater detail exemplified. In some parts, other translations are consulted as well.