We discuss a few issues in the burgeoning field of physics of hadrons containing the b-quark. These include: A simple parameterization of the Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix featuring a triangle in the complex plane, a review of B/sub s/ and B/sub d/ mixing with special attention given to width-mixing and the CP-violating same-sign dilepton asymmetry, a discussion of the CP-violating decay B/sub d/ .-->. /psi/.pi./sup +/.pi./sup /minus//, and a discussion of Cp-violating rate asymmetries in the two-body decays .lambda./sub b/ .-->. p.pi./sup /minus// and .lambda./sub b/ .-->. pK/sup /minus//. The concluding discussion concerns generalizations beyond these specific topics. 22 refs., 6 figs.