A textbook on probability and statistics

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Hello, a very interesting forum you have here:)
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The topic says it all - I'm looking for a good textbook for undergraduate on probabilities and mathematical statistics. Could you recommend something?

I thought about: First Course in Probability by Sheldon Ross, but I have read a lot of bad reviews about that book, so I think it's out of the game.
 
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Probability and Random Processes, Third Edition, by Grimmett and Stirzacker, (Oxford University Press, 2001).
 

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