  These lectures are intended to provide an introduction to heavy meson decays
and CP violation. The first lecture contains a brief review of the standard
model and how the CKM matrix and CP violation arise, mixing and CP violation in
neutral meson systems, and explanation of the cleanliness of the sin(2beta)
measurement. The second lecture deals with the heavy quark limit, some
applications of heavy quark symmetry and the operator product expansion for
exclusive and inclusive semileptonic B decays. The third lecture concerns with
theoretically clean CP violation measurements that may become possible in the
future, and some developments toward a better understanding of nonleptonic B
decays. The conclusions include a subjective best buy list for the near future.
