- Wasserman's All of Statistics? (which I haven't read/worked on)
- Downey's Think Stats and Think Bayes? (which I've read in bits and pieces and have found amazing)
- Any other well known Stats or Probability text?
Strength of this book seems to be that it is very approachable in a "plain english" kind of a way. This is the first time I have seen it and I'm looking forward to reading it.
Strength of _All of Statistics_ is that it is fast-paced and approachable even though it is essentially a math textbook. You only need a bit of algebra to make sense of it. That book exudes the feeling that the author wants to get through all this theory as quickly as possible to move onto other exciting things. (_All of Nonparametric Statistics_ by the same author is actually less approachable and shouldn't be taken as a simplified "the good bits" subset.)
The stats book that I have had the most value out of is _Statistical Modeling: A Fresh Approach_. It's fundamentally about making sense of different kinds of data using a computer. http://www.mosaic-web.org/go/StatisticalModeling/