I work closely with social scientists and it's common in those disciplines to embed narrative and presentation data in spreadsheets.. articles like this and the Good Enough Practices in Scientific Computing (http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jou...) are nice summaries of good practices.
I've been enjoying the struggle through Statistical Inference by George Casella as a foundational text. This was the introductory text for stats graduate students at Arizona State University a few years back.
The Mathematical Methods of Statistics by Harald Cramér is also excellent.
One of his last works, his Op. 60 Barcarolle is incredible if you haven't heard it yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9umBE2Gn7Q