Tutorial on 2nd generation wavelets (with lifting)?
I've bought finally a copy of [Ripples in Mathematics
The Discrete Wavelet Transform][1], and I'm very pleased by this book. The authors explain the DWT with alternating point of views (lifting schemes, filter banks approach, multi-resolution analysis), where each of these viewpoints has its own advantages. Furthermore, the book is implementation oriented, with chapters about boundaries handling and matlab/C implementations.

I'm still looking on a proper way to handle odd-sized signals, but Ripples gave me a good start.

[1]: http://www.control.auc.dk/~alc/ripples.html "Ripples in Mathematics The Discrete Wavelet Transform", by Arne Jensen and Anders la Cour-Harbo