Jeffrey Rosenthal's "Struck by Lightning"

This book is a fairly tame introduction to probability and statistics directed to the general science reader. It assumes nothing and doesn't push you with any really hard concepts. Consequently you don't learn a great deal, but it is written in a light handed style that tries hard to be entertaining. He doesn't quite have the writing gift to make the book absorbing. But it is a perfectly adequate, entertaining book that will leave you with the broad principles.
I enjoyed the fact that the book was written by a Canadian and unabashedly includes a number of Canadian references. Too many Canadian authors hide the fact to make themselves more "acceptable" to US readers. In fact, he has the "nice guy" Canadian quality all through the book, but nicely summarized at the end following the "final exam" he gives you. He makes the point that while math, his speciality, is important, it is only one of many skills that a well-rounded person needs to have:

The Probablity Perspective will never replace all of your other critical thinking skills and decision-making methods -- things like intuition and compassion and determination and honour and just plain common sense. But it will provide you withone more tool to better understand the world's randomness and your place within it.