This book emerged from a long process of trying to write a monograph on the
experimental and theoretical aspects of flavour physics, with some focus on
heavy-flavour physics. This original scope turned out to be far too wide and
had to be narrowed down in order to end up with a monograph of reasonable
size. In addition, the field of flavour physics is evolving rapidly, theoretically
as well as experimentally, and in view of this it is impossible to cover all the
interesting subjects in an up-to-date fashion