I have a few more books that I'd like to mention. The author was F, C. Gilbert. He was born a jew in the later 18000s and converted to Christianity and SDAism after he moved to the US in mid life. He first got me interested in reading the Talmud as I hadn't heard of it before reading his book
Practical Lessons from the Experience of Israel.
He authored several books and they can be downloaded from several sites on the internet. They are well worth reading. However you'll have to search for them yourselves as I'm too lazy to find all those sites again and create links here for you.
Actually I'm not to lazy I had a stroke a year ago+ and it is a real pain for me to type now with only one hand that works very well.