  The narrative of these lectures contains three main threads: (i) CP violation
despite having so far been observed only in the decays of neutral kaons has
been recognized as a phenomenon of truly fundamental importance. The KM ansatz
constitutes the minimal implementation of CP violation: without requiring
unknown degrees of freedom it can reproduce the known CP phenomenology in a
nontrivial way. (ii) The physics of beauty hadrons -- in particular their weak
decays -- opens a novel window onto fundamental dynamics: they usher in a new
quark family (presumably the last one); they allow us to determine fundamental
quantities of the Standard Model like the $b$ quark mass and the CKM parameters
$V(cb)$, $V(ub)$, $V(ts)$ and $V(td)$; they exhibit speedy or even rapid $B^0 -
\bar B^0$J oscillations. (iii) Heavy Quark Expansions allow us to treat $B$
decays with an accuracy that would not have been thought possible a mere decade
ago. These three threads are joined together in the following manner: (a) Huge
CP asymmetries are {\em pre}dicted in $B$ decays, which represents a decisive
test of the KM paradigm for CP violation. (b) Some of these predictions are
made with high {\em parametric} reliability, which (c) can be translated into
{\em numerical} precision through the judicious employment of novel theoretical
technologies. (d) Beauty decays thus provide us with a rich and promising field
to search for New Physics and even study some of its salient features. At the
end of it there might quite possibly be a New Paradigm for High Energy Physics.
There will be some other threads woven into this tapistry: electric dipole
moments, and CP violation in other strange and in charm decays.
